Counting the numbers: Quantifying the burden of disease

At the end of this module participants will be able to:‍

• Describe how time is being used to measure the cost of illness on our population.
• Define new public health measures including burden of disease, years of life lost, years lived in disability, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs).
• Understand how these measurements are beneficial for monitoring the health of the population, service planning and evaluation, and comparing health and wellbeing across settings.
• Highlight some of the findings from the most recent Australian Institute of Health and Wellbeing Burden of Disease study.