Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Summary
      • Key findings
  • Body section
    • 1 Introduction
      • What is burden of disease?
      • How are burden of disease studies used?
      • Australian Burden of Disease Study 2011
        • First phase
        • Second phase
      • Purposes and context of this report
      • Scope
    • 2 Data sources and methods
      • Cause list
        • Development of the cause list
        • Structure of the cause list
      • Deaths data
        • Mortality data sources
        • Versions of mortality data
        • Accounting for late registrations
        • Accounting for year-to-year variation
      • Redistribution of deaths
      • Standard life table
        • Life expectancy and life tables
        • Choice of standard life table
        • Standard life tables used in global studies
      • Years of life lost
        • What are YLL?
        • How are YLL calculated?
    • 3 Comparability of YLL estimates between studies
    • 4 Results
      • Does fatal burden differ by age and sex?
      • How does fatal burden differ by disease group?
      • What are the leading causes of fatal burden?
      • Age patterns in YLL for selected disease groups
    • 5 International comparisons of fatal burden
      • Estimates of disease burden-not comparable between studies
      • Estimates of disease burden can be compared within the same study
    • 6 Discussion
      • Methodological developments
      • Limitations
      • Future work
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
    • Appendix A: Additional tables
    • Appendix B: Methods used for redistribution of deaths
      • How are deaths redistributed?
      • Redistribution results
      • Impact of redistribution
    • Appendix C: Statistical methods and technical notes
      • Age-specific rates
      • Age-standardised rates
      • Rate ratio
    • Glossary
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • List of boxes