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Mission & Goals: |
Groom
Skills,
Gather Evidence and
Generate Knowledge for people's health.
To Improve the
Efficacy,
Quality & Equity
of Health Systems. |
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Estimating
National Burden of Disease
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The
Burden of Disease in Andhra Pradesh, 1990s.
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Contents
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Introduction |
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Prasanta
Mahapatra
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Setting priorities in health sector. Aids to priority
setting in the health sector. Motivation for development of
synthetic measures of health status. Quantifying health and
illness in populations. The Global Burden of Disease study.
Research questions.
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General demographic inputs for
estimation of disease burden. Mortality in Andhra Pradesh,
India. |
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Overview of demographic inputs for
estimation of disease burden. Population data for burden of
disease study. Identification of suit- able stable population
models. Mortality data in Andhra Pradesh and completeness of
registration of deaths. Standard life expect ancies by single
year. Summary of demographic estimates.
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Causes of death in Andhra
Pradesh,1990 |
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Prasanta Mahapatra, P V
Chalapati Rao and G N V Ramana
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A brief overview of the cause of
death reporting systems in India. Characteristics of an usable
cause of death reporting system. Cause of death reporting in
India. A performance analysis. Can we improve the cause of death
reporting system in India? A study to estimate causes of death
in rural area", of AP (APRCD study, 1998). Causes of deaths
in Urban Areas. Summary and Conclusion.
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General approach to estimation
of epidemiological inputs for
computation of National Burden of Disease. |
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Setting priority for estimation of
descriptive epidemiology. Disease specific estimates. Criteria
to assess the level of anchorage to local data. Building
National capacity in descriptive epidemiology.
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An illustration of steps leading
to epidemiological estimates for a National Burden of Disease
study. Adult tuberculosis in
Andhra Pradesh, during the 1990s. |
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Prasanta Mahapatra and GNV
Ramana.
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Problem Definition. Steps leading
to estimation of TB incidence & prevalence in AP. Natural
History. Case definition. Time trends. Adjustment factor for
urban areas. Review of studies on TB prevalence in AP. Deriving
age & sex specific incidence of Tuberculosis in rural and
urban AP using DISMOD.
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Health State Valuations Study in
Andhra Pradesh: Review of Literature and Methods |
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Prasanta Mahapatra Josh A
Salomon, Lipika Nanda and K T Rajshree
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Review of Literature. Methods of
the health state valuation study in Andhra Pradesh. Socio -
economic profile of valuers and over- view of data collected
from two arms of the study. Reliability of health state
valuation tools. Validity of the health state valuation
measurements.
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Results from the community
survey in Andhra Pradesh to measure health state valuations |
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Distribution of valuations for
different health states. Comparison with disability weights
reported by other studies Incorporating Lo- cal Health State
Valuation into NBD estimate Future research needs for health
state valuation. Summary and conclusions from the health state
valuation study.
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Local age preference, age weight
and discounting parameters for computation of DALYs. |
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Reviewing difference between time
based measure versus con- ventional measures of disease burden.
Understanding the age weight function. Discounting years of
life. Combined effect of age weighting and discounting
parameters.
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Burden of disease estimates for
Andhra Pradesh and implications for policy. |
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Andhra Pradesh Burden of Disease
Study results and important causes of disease burden. Levels of
anchorage to local data and NBD Results. Summary and Conclusion.
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