Healthcare Landscape in Pakistan – Burden of Disease – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 980
Healthcare Landscape in Pakistan – Burden of Disease – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 980 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 980 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com . Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Cliff Booth Credit: Marcus Aurelius Credit: Mateus Souza Credit: Rene Terp Credit: Shotpot Burden of Disease Burden of Disease – BoD – is the impact of health problem as measured by financial cost, mortality, morbidity, or other indicators. It is often quantified in terms of Quality-Adjusted-Life-Years – QALY – or Disability-Adjusted-Life-Years – DALY. Both of these metrics quantify the number of years lost due to disability, or disease, or years lived with disability/disease. One DALY can be thought of as one year of healthy life lost. In simpler words, the sum of mortality and morbidity is called the burden of disease because both c...