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Table 1 Summary of inputs into calculation for ABDS 2015

From: History and development of national burden of disease assessment in Australia

 

Fatal burden (YLL)

Non-fatal burden (YLD)

Risk factor attribution

Main data sources

Number of deaths:

National Mortality Database

Prevalence of disease:

Disease registers

National Hospital Morbidity Database

Linked hospital/deaths data

Population health surveys

Epidemiological studies

Prevalence of risk factor:

Population health surveys

Surveillance studies

Disease registers

National Hospital Morbidity Database

National Mortality Database

Other inputs

Standard life table

(GBD 2010)

Disability weights

(GBD 2013)

Effect sizes/ relative risks and linked diseases

(mostly GBD 2016)

Key choices

Redistribution method

Underlying conceptual model for each disease

Risk-outcome pairs

Theoretical minimums