Total burden of disease - Disability adjusted life years (DALY) by age group and leading cause
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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, for those aged 0-24 years anxiety disorders was the greatest contributor to the disability-adjusted life year (6.3 per 1,000 population) followed by suicide and self-inflicted injuries (5.5 per 1,000 population) and asthma (4.4 per 1,000 population).
- In 2018, for those aged 25-74 years back pain was the greatest contributor to the disability-adjusted life year (12.2 per 1,000 population) followed by other musculoskeletal conditions (10.4 per 1,000 population) and anxiety disorders (10.2 per 1,000 population).
- In 2018, for those aged 75+ years dementia was the greatest contributor to the disability-adjusted life year (104.7 per 1,000 population) followed by coronary heart disease (69.2 per 1,000 population) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (51.9 per 1,000 population).
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Total burden (disability-adjusted life years DALY) of disease by leading cause and age group, 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