Leading causes of the total burden of disease
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Commentary
- Burden of disease analysis is a technique that is used as a measure of population health. It is used to compare the impact of different diseases, conditions, injuries and risk factors on a population. This impact is a combination of the fatal (years of life lost due to premature death, YLL) and non-fatal (years lived in ill health or with disability, YLD) burden, they are then combined into a summary measure of health called disability-adjusted life years, or DALY. A DALY combines the impact of dying early and living with illness.
- In 2018, the leading causes of total burden in the ACT were back pain (9.2 per 1,000 population), coronary heart disease (8.7 per 1,000) and anxiety disorders (8.4 per 1,000).
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Leading causes of total burden (disability-adjusted life year DALY) by sex, ACT, 2018
Data
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Codes and sources
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2021. Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Australia 2018. Australian Burden of Disease Study series no. 23. Cat. no. BOD 29. Canberra: AIHW