National Burden Estimates of healthy life lost in India, 2017: an analysis using direct mortality data and indirect disability data

Publication date: December 2019Source: The Lancet Global Health, Volume 7, Issue 12Author(s): Geetha R Menon, Lucky Singh, Palak Sharma, Priyanka Yadav, Shweta Sharma, Shrikant Kalaskar, Harpreet Singh, Srividya Adinarayanan, Vasna Joshua, Vaitheeswaran Kulothungan, Jeetendra Yadav, Leah K Watson, Shaza A Fadel, Wilson Suraweera, M Vishnu Vardhana Rao, R S Dhaliwal, Rehana Begum, Prabha Sati, Dean T Jamison, Prabhat JhaSummaryBackgroundMany countries, including India, seek locally constructed disease burden estimates comprising mortality and loss of health to aid priority setting for the prevention and treatment of diseases. We created the National Burden Estimates (NBE) to provide transparent and understandable disease burdens at the national and subnational levels, and to identify gaps in knowledge.MethodsTo calculate the NBE for India, we combined 2017 UN death totals with national and subnational mortality rates for 2010–17 and causes of death from 211 166 verbal autopsy interviews in the Indian Million Death Study for 2010–14. We calculated years of life lost (YLLs) and years lived with disability (YLDs) for 2017 using published YLD–YLL ratios from WHO Global Health Estimates. We grouped causes of death into 45 groups, including ill-defined deaths, and summed YLLs and YLDs to calculate disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for these causes in eight age groups covering rural and urban areas and 21 major states of India.FindingsIn 2017, there were about 9·7 milli...
Source: The Lancet Global Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research