BeBOD estimates of mortality, years of life lost, prevalence, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life years for 38 causes, 2013-2020

Belgian National Burden of Disease Study Estimates of the burden of disease Causes of death Our estimates are based on the official causes of death database compiled by Statbel . We first map the ICD-10 codes of the underlying causes of death to the Global Burden of Disease cause list, consisting of 131unique causes of deaths. Next, we perform a probabilistic redistribution of ill-defined deaths to specific causes, to obtain a specific cause of death for each deceased person. Years of Life Lost In addition to counting the number of deaths, we also calculate Years of Life Lost (YLLs) as a measu... Mehr ...