Singapore Burden of Disease Study 2004

This report provides the first complete comprehensive assessment of the health status of Singapore residents in 2004. It quantifies the contribution to the ‘burden of disease’ in relation to mortality, disability, impairment, illness and injury in 2004 from over 130 specific diseases. The single indicator known as the disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is used to measure the burden. One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of ‘healthy’ life and is calculated as a combination of 1) years of life lost (YLL) due to premature mortality and 2) equivalent years of ‘healthy’ years of life lost due to disability (YLD). It should be noted that the term ‘disability’ is used here in the widest sense of the word, to include any departure from good health. The burden of disease, therefore, measures the gap between current health status and an ideal situation in which everyone lives into old age without any disease and ill-health. Hence, it indicates the ‘incomplete’ health agenda, identifying areas in which additional health gains can be made.

Published: 01 Mar 2009

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1. Preface and Executive Summary [PDF, 1.61 MB]
2. Introduction and Methods [PDF, 655 KB]
3. Results [PDF, 5.07 MB]
4. Discussion and conclusions [PDF, 666 KB]
5. Appendix Methods for estimating disability burden [PDF, 1.24 MB]
6. Annex tables [PDF, 3.86 MB]
7. Acknowledgements, Working Group, Advisory Committee, Abbreviations and References [PDF, 769 KB]
8. List of tables figures [PDF, 1.35 MB]

Singapore Burden of Disease Study 2004 Results [XLS, 62 KB]
Singapore Burden of Disease Study 2004 Annex [XLS, 601 KB]