A clarion call for action based on refined DALY estimates for South Africa

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 438-440

  Bradshaw, Debbie ^a   Norman, Rosana ^a   Schneider, Michelle ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATISTICS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH AFRICA;

COST OF ILLNESS; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; MORBIDITY; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 34447107525     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

References (5)

1. Bradshaw D, Groenewald P, Laubscher R, et al. Initial burden of disease estimates for South Africa, 2000. S Afr Med J 2003; 93: 682-688.
2. Murray CJ, Lopez AD. The Global Burden of Disease: A Comprehensive Assessment of Mortality and Disability from Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors in 1990 and Projected to 2020. Global Burden of Disease and Injury Series, voL 1. Boston: Harvard School of Public Health on behalf of the World Health Organization and the World Bank, 1996.
3. Jamison DT, Breman JG, Measham AR, et al. Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: World Bank and Oxford University Press. 2006. www.dcp2.org (accessed 18 May 2006).
4. Norman R, Bradshaw D, Schneider M, Pieterse D, Groenewald P. Revised Burden of Disease Estimates for the Comparative Risk Factor Assessment, South Africa 2000. Cape Town: MRC, 2007. www.mrc.ac.za/bod/bod.htm (accessed 7 July 2006).
5. Actuarial Society of South Africa AIDS sub-committee. 2002. ASSA2000 AIDS and demographic model. http://www.assa.org.za/information/AIDS/ AIDSmodel/ (accessed 23 January 2006).