Disability-Adjusted Life Years for Communicable Disease in the Korean Burden of Disease Study 2012

Lee, Ye-Rin; Moon, Kanghee; Kim, Young Ae; Park, So-Youn; Oh, Chang-Mo; Lee, Kyung-Suk; Oh, In-Hwan

The 40-49 years old age group had the highest number of DALYs and the ≥ 80 years old age group had the lowest number of DALYs. On the other hand, the ≥ 80 years old age group had the highest proportion of DALYs per 100,000 at 1,249 DALYs per 100,000, followed by the 70-79 years old age group at 799 DALYs per 100,000, the 0-9 years old age group at 552 DALYs per 100,000, and the 60-69 years old age group at 488 DALYs per 100,000. The proportion of YLLs and YLDs in DALYs varied by age group. With increasing age, the proportion of YLLs increased for all groups except for the 0-9 years old age group (Table 1 , Fig. 1 ). We classified communicable diseases into 4 categories according to GBD 2010 study (2): (i) HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, (ii) diarrhea, lower respiratory infections, meningitis, and other common infectious diseases, (iii) neglected tropical diseases and malaria, and (iv) other communicable disorders. The largest proportion of DALYs was for diarrhea, lower respiratory infections, meningitis, and other common infectious diseases, comprising 59.7% of the total DALYs, followed by HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis at 33.8%, other communicable disorders at 6.1%, and neglected tropical diseases and malaria at 0.4% (Table 2).