Using Australia as a comparator (Use 2015 Australia BoD), choose a country/region of your choiceto demonstrate its
Question:
Using Australia as a comparator (Use 2015 Australia BoD), choose a country/region of your choice to demonstrate its burden of disease by gender and sex using2017 Global Burden of Disease
Study or most recent GBD study.
•Indicate your chosen country's 5 major disease burdens (compared with Australia). This can be
estimated in terms of years of life lost(YLL) or years lived with a disability(YLD).
•Discuss how has the country's burden changed over the years - compare the burden in the first GBD 1990 report to 2017/most recent GBD Study
Evaluate whether injury or communicable or non-communicable diseases contribute a larger share of the burden of disease.
References to use:
WHO Disease burden and mortality estimates
Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (pages 1514-1520)
Australia Burden of Disease 2015
Australia's Health 2016
An Introduction To Statistical Methods And Data Analysis
ISBN: 9781305465527
7th Edition
Authors: R. Lyman Ott, Micheal T. Longnecker