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Suchttherapie 2006; 7(4): 143-153
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-927290
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Zusammenfassende Gesundheitsmaße von Sterblichkeit und Krankheit: Der steinige Weg zwischen PYLL, YLD, DALY and HALE

Summary Measures of Public Health - the Rocky Road between PYLL, YLD, DALY and HALEG. Gmel1, 2, 3 , J. Rehm3, 4, 5
  • 1Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and other Drug Problems (SIPA), Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2Alcohol Treatment Center, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
  • 3Centre for Addiction und Mental Health, Toronto, Canada
  • 4Addiction Research Institute, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 5Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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12 December 2006 (online)

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Zusammenfassung

Anliegen: Beschreibung von Gesamtmaßen der Gesundheit einer Population, wie verlorene Lebensjahre oder behinderungsbereinigte Lebensjahre. Methode: Narrative Literaturdurchsicht. Ergebnisse: „Health-Expectancy”-Maße definieren die Lebenserwartung einer Bevölkerung, „Health-Gap”-Maße die Differenz zwischen dem augenblicklichen Ist-Zustand und einem normativen Standard. Gesamtmaße der Gesundheit einer Bevölkerung schließen sowohl die Mortalität als auch die Morbidität einer Bevölkerung mit ein. Schlussfolgerungen: Trotz methodischer Schwächen informieren Gesamtmaße der Gesundheit politische Entscheidungsträger über eine verbesserte Allokation von Ressourcen im Gesundheitswesen.

Abstract

Aims: To describe summary measures of public health such as life years lost or disability adjusted life years. Methods: Narrative literature review. Results: Health expectancy measures define the life expectancy in a population, and health gap measures the difference between the actual situation and a normative standard. Summary measures of public health include both mortality and morbidity of a population. Conclusions: Despite some methodological problems summary measures of public health inform policy makers about a better allocation of resources in the public health sector.

Schlüsselwörter

Gesundheitsmaße - PYLL - YLD - DALY - HALE

Key words

Summary measure of public health - PYLL - YLD - DALY - HALE

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Gerhard Gmel

Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and other Drug Problems

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1003 Lausanne, Schweiz

Email: ggmel@sfa-ispa.ch