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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"disability adjusted life years"”.
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Cancer Disability Adjusted Life Years in South Carolina
<p>Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) is a novel way to measure the effect of disease, which incorporates a morbidity component as well as including the typical mortality component. This thesis presents the background of DALYs, the components that are included in the calculation of DALYs, an …
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Two Papers Evaluating the Economic Impact of Agricultural Innovation
… and can lead to increased incidence of illness, disability, and mortality. Through the use of the disability adjusted life years concept (DALYs), economic surplus analysis, and benefit-cost analysis, the authors determine the economic impact of a staple crop biofortification project. The study …
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Use of the Non-Pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment (NASG) For Life-Threatening Obstetric Hemorrhage: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Egypt and Nigeria
… clinical interventions. We compared costs and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) across the intervention scenarios. RESULTS: For 1000 women presenting in shock, providing the NASG to those in severe shock results in decreased mortality and morbidity, which averts 357 DALYs in Egypt and …
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Application of self-rolled-up membrane technology for enhanced neuron guidance and alignment
… identified as the leading cause contributing to disability adjusted life years in the United States, meaning they lead to more years of healthy life lost to disease state, leading cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Neural circuits cannot repair themselves in the same way a superficial cut, or …
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Transcriptome characterisation of the intra-mammalian stage of male and female Schistosoma mansoni
… being responsible for 3.3 million lost disability-adjusted life years. Schistosomes are dioecious and male and female worms find one another and pair in the blood vessels of the host’s liver. This sets in motion a unique feature of schistosome biology, the pairing-dependent sexual …
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Converging roles of neurodevelopment and Wnt signaling in neuropsychiatric disorders
… are the leading category contributing to disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in the U.S. according to the World Health Organization. These findings underline the vast burden caused by neuropsychiatric disorders on patients. However, effective treatments do not exist for many of the …
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Health-Related QOL, Physical Activity, and Social Support in Saudi Patients with Cardiac Disease
… (IHD) is known as a leading cause of death and disability adjusted life years in recent decades, especially in Saudi Arabia. Higher levels of physical activity (PA) and perceived social support (PSS) were positively associated with improved outcomes like health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in …
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Translational Frontiers for Chikungunya Virus: New World Epidemic, New Strains, New Therapeutic Targets
… and polyarthralgia, which can last for months to years. Despite the severe morbidity and impact on disability adjusted life-years, an FDA-approved CHIKV vaccine or therapeutic remains elusive. This project addresses two aspects of therapeutic development: surveillance and drug target development. …
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Assessing Health Status, Disease Burden, and Quality of Life in Appalachia Tennessee: The Importance of Using Multiple Data Sources in Health Research.
… few studies have assessed the quality of life and burden of disease on those residing in Appalachia. Therefore, the overall aim of this dissertation was to assess the health status, burden of disease, and quality of life in Appalachia using available data and improved health outcome …
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Mild traumatic brain injury augments innate immune responses through neurokinin and cholinergic signaling
Pneumonia is the second leading cause of disability-adjusted life-years lost worldwide and the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients have classically been considered immunosuppressed, but recent research reported that mild head trauma patients …
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Mobile genetic element contribution to the genome architecture of the human parasitic flatworm Schistosoma mansoni
… in an estimated loss of more than 20 million disability-adjusted life years. Around 700 million people, predominantly in developing countries, live in at-risk areas. Schistosomiasis is caused by trematodes of the Schistosoma genus, with Schistosoma mansoni being the best characterised species …
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Indications and short term outcomes of major limb amputations at the university teaching hospitals adult and emergency hospital, Lusaka, Zambia.
… and their families and an increase in the Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY’s) and mortality. Therefore this study was aimed at assessing the indications and short term outcomes of major limb amputations at UTH-Adult hospital, Lusaka, Zambia. Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study …
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An analysis of the CT and CT angiogram findings of methamphetamine induced stroke in young adults (≤45 years) presenting to GSH Emergency department
… induced stroke in young adults (≤ 45 years) presenting to GSH emergency department. The recreational use of methamphetamine in the Republic of South Africa is on the rise accounting for 30% of patients admitted to addiction rehabilitation centres countrywide1 . In the Western Cape …
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Neuroimaging Investigation of Binge Alcohol Drinking and Opioid Dependency.
… and mental illness are the leading cause of years of life lived with disability worldwide; depressive and anxiety disorders account for about half of total disability-adjusted life years and alcohol and illicit drug (including opioid) use disorder account for about ten percent each. However, …
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A self-management programme to empower adults suffering from Gout and their caregivers in the Omaheke region, Namibia
… of Disease (GBD) (2010), gout ranked 138th for disability and 173rd for the overall burden of disability-adjusted life years. Statistics assume that in a population of 71,233 there are 200 people in the Omaheke region suffering from gout (Extrapolation of Prevalence Rate of Gout to Countries and …
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Economic and social consequences of human african trypanosomiasis in Muchinga, Lusaka and Eastern provinces of Zambia
… on the study population was estimated using the Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). This was calculated as Years of Life Lost (YLL) +Years of Life Lived with Disability (I×DW×L)]. Results from the study indicated that once a patient contracts HAT, an average of 4.9 months‘ worth of productive …
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Antischistosomal structure-activity relationships of nitrated n-phenyl benzamide derivatives.
… is associated with approximately 3.3 million disability-adjusted life years. It also causes a total estimated annual global economic loss amounting to US$641,790,130. Africa alone accounts for more than 90% of schistosomiasis cases with Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma haematobium species …
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Economic and social consequences of human african trypanosomiasis in Muchinga, Lusaka and Eastern provinces of Zambia
… on the study population was estimated using the Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). This was calculated as Years of Life Lost (YLL) +Years of Life Lived with Disability (I×DW×L)]. Results from the study indicated that once a patient contracts HAT, an average of 4.9 months‘ worth of productive …
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Antischistosomal structure-activity relationships of nitrated n-phenyl benzamide derivatives.
… is associated with approximately 3.3 million disability-adjusted life years. It also causes a total estimated annual global economic loss amounting to US$641,790,130. Africa alone accounts for more than 90% of schistosomiasis cases with Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma haematobium species …
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Avaliação do material particulado fino proveniente de regiões caracterizadas com atividades de mineração
… A partir destas estimativas, aplicou-se o método Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY) e foram calculados os custos associados a essa mortalidade, estratificado por sexo e faixa etária. O ônus da poluição por MP2,5 foi estimado em R$ 19,7 milhões (2021), para a cidade de Colombo e R$ 7,2 milhões …
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