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EPILEPSIA
Volume 43, Issue -, Pages 21-25Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING INC
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.43.s.6.11.x
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burden of disease; DALYs; classification of functioning and disability; burden of epilepsy
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We briefly describe the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) study, its goals. and some of its outcomes as related to neurologic and psychiatric disorders. The summary measure of population health DALYs (Disability Adjusted Life Years) are described. as well as the implications for neuropsychiatric disorders of changing health indicators and the move from mortality toward disability indicators, The pressing need for new measures for health is answered by the new WHO Classification of Functioning Disability and Health, ICF, and a brief summary of its basic principles is provided. Although a better understanding of the physical, social, and economic burden of epilepsy has moved this disorder higher on the world's agenda, epilepsy still has problems to be recognized as a public health priority. The implications of a shift toward considering the disability of epilepsy, as outlined in the the WHO World Health Report 2001, are important. The burden of epilepsy is high and, for the year 2000, accounts for similar to0.5% of the whole burden of diseases in the world.
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