Years of life lost for 137 causes of death in Belgium by age, sex, and region, 2004-2018

Abstract Information on years of life lost (YLLs) due to premature mortality is necessary to assess the fatal impact of disease, crucial for the calculation of Belgian disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). This study presents a novel method to redistribute cause of death data. Belgian cause of death data are obtained from Statistics Belgium (Statbel). After mapping the ICD-10 codes defining the underlying cause of death to the GBD cause list, we redistributed ill-defined deaths (IDDs) to specific causes using a four-step probabilistic redistribution process developed to fit the Belgian conte... Mehr ...