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Global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors for young people's health during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Mokdad, Ali H, Forouzanfar, Mohammad Hossein, Daoud, Farah, Mokdad, Arwa A, El Bcheraoui, Charbel, Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar, Kyu, Hmwe Hmwe, Barber, Ryan M +60 more·2016·The Lancet
DOI 10.1016/s0140-6736(16)00648-6
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Background Young people's health has emerged as a neglected yet pressing issue in global development. Changing patterns of young people's health have the potential to undermine future population health as well as global economic development unless timely and effective strategies are put into place. We report the past, present, and anticipated burden of disease in young people aged 10-24 years from 1990 to 2013 using data on mortality, disability, injuries, and health risk factors.Methods The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) includes annual assessments for 188 countries from 1990 to 2013, covering 306 diseases and injuries, 1233 sequelae, and 79 risk factors. We used the comparative risk assessment approach to assess how much of the burden of disease reported in a given year can be attributed to past exposure to a risk. We estimated attributable burden by comparing observed health outcomes with those that would have been observed if an alternative or counterfactual level of exposure had occurred in the past. We applied the same method to previous years to allow comparisons from 1990 to 2013. We cross-tabulated the quantiles of disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) by quintiles of DALYs annual increase from 1990 to 2013 to show rates of DALYs increase by burden. We used the GBD 2013 hierarchy of causes that organises 306 diseases and injuries into four levels of classification. Level one distinguishes three broad categories: first, communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional disorders; second, non-communicable diseases; and third, injuries. Level two has 21 mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive categories, level three has 163 categories, and level four has 254 categories.Findings The leading causes of death in 2013 for young people aged 10-14 years were HIV/AIDS, road injuries, and drowning (25·2%), whereas transport injuries were the leading cause of death for ages 15-19 years (14·2%) and 20-24 years (15·6%). Maternal disorders were the highest cause of death for young women aged 20-24 years (17·1%) and the fourth highest for girls aged 15-19 years (11·5%) in 2013. Unsafe sex as a risk factor for DALYs increased from the 13th rank to the second for both sexes aged 15-19 years from 1990 to 2013. Alcohol misuse was the highest risk factor for DALYs (7·0% overall, 10·5% for males, and 2·7% for females) for young people aged 20-24 years, whereas drug use accounted for 2·7% (3·3% for males and 2·0% for females). The contribution of risk factors varied between and within countries. For example, for ages 20-24 years, drug use was highest in Qatar and accounted for 4·9% of DALYs, followed by 4·8% in the United Arab Emirates, whereas alcohol use was highest in Russia and accounted for 21·4%, followed by 21·0% in Belarus. Alcohol accounted for 9·0% (ranging from 4·2% in Hong Kong to 11·3% in Shandong) in China and 11·6% (ranging from 10·1% in Aguascalientes to 14·9% in Chihuahua) of DALYs in Mexico for young people aged 20-24 years. Alcohol and drug use in those aged 10-24 years had an annual rate of change of >1·0% from 1990 to 2013 and accounted for more than 3·1% of DALYs.Interpretation Our findings call for increased efforts to improve health and reduce the burden of disease and risks for diseases in later life in young people. Moreover, because of the large variations between countries in risks and burden, a global approach to improve health during this important period of life will fail unless the particularities of each country are taken into account. Finally, our results call for a strategy to overcome the financial and technical barriers to adequately capture young people's health risk factors and their determinants in health information systems.Funding Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Mokdad, A. H., Forouzanfar, M. H., Daoud, F., Mokdad, A. A., El Bcheraoui, C., Moradi-Lakeh, M., Kyu, H. H., Barber, R. M., Wagner, J., Cercy, K., Kravitz, H., Coggeshall, M., Chew, A., O'Rourke, K. F., Steiner, C., Tuffaha, M., Charara, R., Al-Ghamdi, E. A., Adi, Y., Afifi, R. A., Alahmadi, H., AlBuhairan, F., Allen, N., AlMazroa, M., Al-Nehmi, A. A., AlRayess, Z., Arora, M., Azzopardi, P., Barroso, C., Basulaiman, M., Bhutta, Z. A., Bonell, C., Breinbauer, C., Degenhardt, L., Denno, D., Fang, J., Fatusi, A., Feigl, A. B., Kakuma, R., Karam, N., Kennedy, E., Khoja, T. A. M., Maalouf, F., Obermeyer, C. M., Mattoo, A., McGovern, T., Memish, Z. A., Mensah, G. A., Patel, V., Petroni, S., Reavley, N., Zertuche, D. R., Saeedi, M., Santelli, J., Sawyer, S. M., Ssewamala, F., Taiwo, K., Tantawy, M., Viner, R. M., Waldfogel, J., Zuñiga, M. P., Naghavi, M., Wang, H., Vos, T., Lopez, A. D., Al Rabeeah, A. A., Patton, G. C., & Murray, C. J. L.
Affiliations
  • University of Washington (US)
  • Ministry of Health (SA)
  • American University of Beirut (LB)
  • Institute of Public Administration (SA)
  • King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (SA)
  • University of Oregon (US)
  • Public Health Foundation of India (IN)
  • Royal Children's Hospital (AU)
  • International Planned Parenthood Federation (US)
  • Aga Khan University (PK)
  • University College London (GB)
  • UNSW Sydney (AU)
  • Kunming Medical University (CN)
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  • University of Balamand (LB)
  • Burnet Institute (AU)
  • Jawaharlal Nehru University (IN)
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  • Alfaisal University (SA)
  • London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
  • International Center for Research on Women (US)
Corresponding author
Mokdad, Ali H
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Venue
The Lancet
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-06
Volume
387
Issue
10036
Pages
2383-2401
ISSN
  • 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
  • 0140-6736
DOI
10.1016/s0140-6736(16)00648-6
OpenAlex
W2346765773
Cited by
984
References
38
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FWCI
195.60
Type
journal article
Language
en
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closed
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www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
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  • Minerva Access (University of Melbourne) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellowship (1041742)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Health and Behaviors
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Global Health and Epidemiology
Keywords
adolescent health, global burden of disease, disability-adjusted life years, health risk factors, injuries, non-communicable diseases, maternal disorders, HIV/AIDS, road traffic injuries, drowning, adolescent mortality, disability, attributable burden, young women's health, young men's health, adolescent boys
MeSH terms
Accidents, Traffic, Adolescent, Age Factors, Alcoholism, Cause of Death, Child, Drowning, Female, Persons with Disabilities, Humans, Infections, Male, Risk Factors, Sex Factors, HIV Infections, Cost of Illness, Age Distribution, Sex Distribution, Risk Assessment, Quality-Adjusted Life Years, Substance-Related Disorders, Young Adult

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