Prevalence and DALYs of skin diseases in Ubonratchathani based on real-world national healthcare service data.

ABSTRACT: There is little evidence to describe the burden of skin diseases in developing countries and its accuracy remained uncertain. We aimed to examine prevalence and disability adjusted life years (DALYs) of skin diseases in a Thai general population in Ubonratchathani. Based on real-world healthcare service data (diagnoses, prevalence, and cause-specific mortality) retrieved from the National Health Security Office reimbursement database, we used a simplified prevalence-based approach adopted in the Global Burden of Diseases to compute disease burden, measured as DALYs, of skin diseases. DALYs was calculated as the sum of years lost due to disability and years of life lost due to skin diseases, with adoption of previously published averaged disability weights and a 95% uncertainty interval (UI

SUBMITTER: Prasitpuriprecha N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9547855 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature