Journal article

Burden of injury along the development spectrum: associations between the Socio-demographic Index and disability-adjusted life year estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

JA Haagsma, SL James, CD Castle, ZV Dingels, JT Fox, EB Hamilton, Z Liu, LR Lucchesi, NLS Roberts, DO Sylte, OM Adebayo, A Ahmadi, MB Ahmed, MTE Aichour, F Alahdab, SA Alghnam, SM Aljunid, RM Al-Raddadi, U Alsharif, K Altirkawi Show all

Injury Prevention | Published : 2020

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Abstract

Background The epidemiological transition of non-communicable diseases replacing infectious diseases as the main contributors to disease burden has been well documented in global health literature. Less focus, however, has been given to the relationship between sociodemographic changes and injury. The aim of this study was to examine the association between disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) from injury for 195 countries and territories at different levels along the development spectrum between 1990 and 2017 based on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 estimates. Methods Injury mortality was estimated using the GBD mortality database, corrections for garbage coding and CODEm-the caus..

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