Estimating the burden of disease in one Swiss canton: what do disability adjusted life years (DALY) tell us?

Schopper, Doris; Pereira, Joaquín; Torres, A.; Cuende, Natividad; Alonso, Mónica; Baylin, Ana; Ammon, Catherine; Rougemont, André

doi:10.1093/ije/29.5.871

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“…Applications on a local level are encouraged as they may compare the relevance of different diseases such as the county level example conducted for Geneva, Switzerland [56]. However, to guide policy makers and agencies in decisions concerning allocation of environmental health resources, there is a need for exposure-oriented comparative risk assessments.…”

Section: Comparing Attributable Risks Of Different Hazardsmentioning

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The public health relevance of air pollution abatement

Künzli

2002

Eur Respir J

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Assuming a causal relationship between current levels of air pollution and morbidity/mortality, it is crucial to estimate the public health relevance of the problem. The derivation of air pollution attributable cases faces inherent uncertainties and requires influential assumptions. Based on the results of the trinational impact assessment study of Austria, France, and Switzerland, where prudent estimates of the air pollution attributable cases (mortality, chronic bronchitis incidence, hospital admissions, acute bronchitis among children, restricted activity days, asthma attacks) have been made, influential uncertainties are quantified in this review.The public health impact of smoking, environmental tobacco smoke, and air pollution on the prevalence of chronic cough/phlegm are outlined. Despite all methodological caveats, impact assessment studies clearly suggest that public health largely benefits from better air quality. The studies are selective underestimates as they are strongly driven by mortality, but do not include full quantification of the impact on morbidity and their consequences on quality of life among the diseased and the caregivers.Air pollution abatement strategies are usually political in nature, targeting at policies, regulation and technology in mobile or stationary sources rather than at individuals. It is of note that key clean air strategies converge into abatement of climate change. In general, energy consumption is very closely related to both air pollution and greenhouse gases. The dominant causes of both problems are the excessive and inefficient combustion of fossil fuel. Thus, for many policy options, the benefit of air pollution abatement will go far beyond what prudent health-impact assessments may derive. From a climate change and air pollution perspective, improved energy efficiency and a strong and decisive departure from the "fossil fuel" combustion society is a science-based must. Health professionals must raise their voices in the political decision process to give strong support for clean air policies, both on a national and international level.

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Section: Comparing Attributable Risks Of Different Hazardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The public health relevance of air pollution abatement

Künzli

2002

Eur Respir J

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“…13 Since then, DALYs have been used widely across the world to estimate burden of disease at the international, national, and local levels. [14][15][16] …”

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Disease burden of enterovirus 71 in rural central China: A community-based survey

Gan¹,

Jin²,

et al. 2015

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

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“…Among mental disorders, depression is often reported to be the main cause of sickness absence 8,10,11 , except in France, where anxiety disorders have shown to be the main cause 12 . This difference could be due to the age distribution of these studies, since depression seems to be more frequent among older workers (> 40) and anxiety disorders are greater among the younger contingent (< 40) 13 .…”

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Sickness benefit claims due to mental disorders in Brazil: associations in a population-based study

Barbosa-Branco

Bültmann

Steenstra³

2012

Cad. Saúde Pública

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This study aims to determine the prevalence and duration of sickness benefit claims due to mental disorders and their association with economic activity, sex, age, work-relatedness and income replacement using a population-based study of sickness benefit claims (> 15 days) due to mental disorders in Brazil carried out in 2008. The prevalence of mental disorders was 45.1 claims per 10,000 workers. Prevalence and duration of sickness benefit claims due to mental disorder were higher and longer in workers aged over 40 years. Prevalence of claims was 73% higher in women but duration of sickness benefit claims was longer in men. Prevalence rates for claims differed widely according to economic activity, with sewage, residential care and programming and broadcasting activities showing the highest rates. Claims were deemed to be work-related in 8.5% of cases with mental disorder showing low work-relatedness in Brazil. A wide variation of prevalence and duration between age, economic activity and work-relatedness was observed, suggesting that working conditions are a more important factor in mental disorder work disability than previously assumed.

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Estimating the burden of disease in one Swiss canton: what do disability adjusted life years (DALY) tell us?

Cited by 55 publications

References 17 publications

The public health relevance of air pollution abatement

The public health relevance of air pollution abatement

Disease burden of enterovirus 71 in rural central China: A community-based survey

Sickness benefit claims due to mental disorders in Brazil: associations in a population-based study

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