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Burden of Disease (BoD) - LGAs and regions 2001 - Ranking of DALY & top 50 causes

Created 26/06/2025

Updated 26/06/2025

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The Burden of Disease study uses methods developed originally for the Global Burden of Disease study refined and adapted to the Victorian context. It provides a comprehensive assessment of the amount of ill health in Victoria, Australia, measured in Ranking of Disability Adjusted Life Years and top 50 causes arising from most diseases and injuries. The DALY is a measure of the disease burden in a population combining the loss of years of life due to premature mortality and the loss of healthy years of life due to disease or injury. One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of healthy life. The DALY is a so-called health gap measure. This means that the burden of disease is measured as the gap between the current health status of the population and an ideal where everyone lives into old age; free of disease or injury. The term disability is used quite broadly; in this sense; to include all departures from complete health due to disease or injury.  The Burden of Disease 'data' are modelled estimates,  using methods developed originally for the Global Burden of Disease study but refined and adapted to the Victorian context.

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Title Burden of Disease (BoD) - LGAs and regions 2001 - Ranking of DALY & top 50 causes
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/0cdb5bd4-15a1-49c5-8ba5-d03be266cfd0
Remote Last Updated 13/06/2024
Contact Point
Department of Health and Human Services
contact@dpc.vic.gov.au
Reference Period 15/08/2012
Geospatial Coverage Victoria
Data Portal Victoria Government

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This dataset was originally found on Victoria Government "Burden of Disease (BoD) - LGAs and regions 2001 - Ranking of DALY & top 50 causes". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/burden-of-disease-bod-lgas-and-regions-2001-ranking-of-daly-top-50-causes