A. Burden of Illness

V. Key Issues: Population Health >> A. Burden of Illness

Topic Outline

1. Avoidable mortality
2. Avoidable morbidity
3. Chronic Diseases
4. Disability
5. Cost-of-illness
     a. Total Cost-of-Illness
     b. COI Rankings
     c. COI by Condition
     d. Lifetime Cost-of-Illness

See also Determinants of health

Links

• The Burden of Illness of Cancer: Economic Cost and Quality of Life (Annual Review of Public Health page)
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services page)
• FoodNet Surveillance – Burden of Illness Pyramid (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention page)
• Healthy People 2020
• World Health Organization Millennium Development Goals
• Centers for Disease Control Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Centers for Disease Control National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS)
• State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Public Health Professionals Gateway