… burden of disease with disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) requires disability weights that
quantify health losses for all non-fatal consequences of disease … Global Burden of Disease …

… of disease burden can be estimated using comparative risk assessment (CRA, respective
diseases … WASH-attributable disease burden estimates from other health outcomes for which …

… 6 , the GBD was committed to the principles of best estimates, comprehensive accounting,
comparable measurement, summary measures of fatal and non-fatal health outcomes and …

… about simple, singular cause–effect relationships often need to be eschewed; in their place
we need to recognize the possibility for multifactorial effects in which single health outcomes …

… for specific aspects of health and mortality or for specific causes of health problems; rather, …
trends and compare health across populations or for measuring health outcomes in cost-…

… We assessed the WASH-attributable disease burden of the four health outcomes overall
and disaggregated by region, age, and sex for the year 2019. We calculated WASH-attributable …

… health outcomes affects the ranking of disease burden. Rankings based on DALYs differ
substantially from rankings based on the number of deaths (Table 3). The importance of major …

… status and an ideal situation where everyone lives into old age free of disease and disability…
population health that combine information on mortality and non-fatal health outcomes into a …

… The DALY is a health gap measure, which combines information on the impact … health
outcomes. One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of ‘healthy’ life and the burden of disease …

… environments remain important factors influencing health outcomes, it is nevertheless … in
health care and public health have been followed by the expected improvements in health. If not…