Applying burden of disease methods in developing countries: a case study from Pakistan.
OBJECTIVES: Disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) and healthy life-year (HeaLY) are composite indicators of disease burden that combine mortality and morbidity into a single measurement. This study...
Measuring the burden of disease: healthy life-years.
Hyder, A A, Rotllant, G, Morrow, R H
OBJECTIVES: This paper presents the background and rationale for a composite indicator, healthy life-year (HeaLY), that incorporates mortality and morbidity into a single number. HeaLY is compared...
Health policy approaches to measuring and valuing human life: conceptual and ethical issues.
To achieve more cost-effective and equitable use of health resources, improved methods for defining disease burdens and for guiding resource allocations are needed by health care decision makers....
Applying burden of disease methods in developing countries: a case study from Pakistan.
OBJECTIVES: Disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) and healthy life-year (HeaLY) are composite indicators of disease burden that combine mortality and morbidity into a single measurement. This study...
Measuring the burden of disease: healthy life-years.
Hyder, A A, Rotllant, G, Morrow, R H
OBJECTIVES: This paper presents the background and rationale for a composite indicator, healthy life-year (HeaLY), that incorporates mortality and morbidity into a single number. HeaLY is compared...
Health policy approaches to measuring and valuing human life: conceptual and ethical issues.
To achieve more cost-effective and equitable use of health resources, improved methods for defining disease burdens and for guiding resource allocations are needed by health care decision makers....
Burkitt's Lymphoma: A Time-space Cluster of Cases in Bwanba County of Uganda
Morrow, R. H., Pike, M. C., Smith, P. G., Ziegler, J. L., Kisuule, A.
Seven cases of Burkitt's lymphoma have to date (March 1971) been diagnosed in the county of Bwamba in Uganda. All these patients had the clinical onset of their tumour in the 27 months from October...
Australia Antigen and Hepatitis in Accra, Ghana
Morrow, R. H., Sai, F. T., Barker, L. F.
Viral hepatitis in young adults in Accra, Ghana, is associated with Australia antigen (H.A.A.). Sera from 85 patients in hospital with viral hepatitis were available for determinations of H.A.A. Of...
Steady state assumptions in DALYs: effect on estimates of HIV impact
OBJECTIVE: The disability adjusted life year (DALY) and the healthy life year (HeaLY) are both composite indicators of disease burden in a population, which combine healthy life lost from mortality...
Further studies of space-time clustering of Burkitt's lymphoma in Uganda.
Morrow, R. H., Pike, M. C., Smith, P. G.
All hospital-treated cases of Burkitt's lymphoma (BL), with onset of symptoms in the period 1963-68 and resident in the Lango and Acholi districts of Uganda, were identified. The average annual...