The study uses the methods developed for the Global Burden of Disease Study adapted to the Victorian context. It provides a comprehensive assessment of the amount of ill health, the 'burden of disease', in Victoria, Australia in 1996 and projected to the year 2016. Dismod is a shareware software program developed at Harvard University that allows one to find a set of incidence rates by age that match observed prevalences, given estimates of remission rates and cause-specific mortality risk derived from population data or epidemiological studies. More about DALY Worksheets Contents Download the entire document as a single 2.8 Mb pdf file. OR Download sections as individual pdf files.
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