João Vasco Santos, Alicia Padron-Monedero, Boris Bikbov, Diana Alecsandra Grad, Dietrich Plass, Enkeleint A Mechili, Federica Gazzelloni, Florian Fischer, Gerhard Sulo, Che Henry Ngwa, Isabel Noguer-Zambrano, José L Peñalvo, Juanita A Haagsma, Katarzyna Kissimova-Skarbek, Lorenzo Monasta, Nermin Ghith, Rodrigo Sarmiento-Suarez, Rok Hrzic, Romana Haneef, Rónán O'Caoimh, Sarah Cuschieri, Stefania Mondello, Zubair Kabir, Alberto Freitas, Brecht Devleesschauwer
BACKGROUND: The European Union (EU) faces many health-related challenges. Burden of diseases information and the resulting trends over time are essential for health planning. This paper reports estimates of disease burden in the EU and individual 27 EU countries in 2019, and compares them with those in 2010. METHODS: We used the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study estimates and 95% uncertainty intervals for the whole EU and each country to evaluate age-standardised death, years of life lost (YLLs), years lived with disability (YLDs) and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) rates for Level 2 causes, as well as life expectancy and healthy life expectancy (HALE)...
May 22, 2024: BMC Public Health