Quantifying years of life lost in Australia: a multiple cause of death analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Deaths in Australia and other high-income countries increasingly involve multiple conditions. However, key burden of disease measures typically only use the underlying cause of death (UC). We quantified sex and cause-specific years of life lost (YLL) based on UC compared with a method integrating multiple causes of death.

Methods

Causes of death for all deaths in Australia (2015-17), mapped to 136 groups based on International Classification of Diseases 10th revision (ICD-10), were ascribed using (1) the UC only and (2) a multiple cause weighting (WT) strategy. Applying the Global Burden of Disease 2010 life table, YLLUC and YLLWT rates were calculated for each sex and cause of death and compared using relative and absolute measures.

Results

All-cause YLL r

SUBMITTER: Joshy G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11769717 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature