title: Burden of disease in Korea during 2000-10.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This study estimates the burden of disease in Korea during 2000-10, using disability-adjusted life years (DALYs).
  
  
  METHODS
  DALYs are the sum of years of life lost from mortality and years of life lost from disability. DALYs for 24 major diseases in 2000, 2005 and 2010 Korea were calculated based on the Global Burden of Disease Study method.
  
  
  RESULTS
  As in other advanced nations, the burden of disease in Korea is characterized by an increasing importance of cancer, unipolar depression and ischemic heart disease (1681, 1508 and 562 person-years for Year 2010 in terms of DALYs per 10 0000, respectively). At the same time, unipolar depression, liver cirrhosis and mental and behavioral disorder due to alcohol use (1508, 323 and 535 person-years for 2010, respectively) became much more common in Korea than in other advanced nations.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The burden of disease in Korea follows the pattern of other advanced nations in general but also registers some unique characteristics affected by the nation's distinctive epidemiological and sociocultural contexts, e.g. rapid economic growth and dramatic social transition without appropriate policy response. Korea's health and welfare policy might need to incorporate these special conditions for the effective reduction of its disease burden.
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine and Health Services Research Institute, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine and Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066 Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do 440-746, South Korea.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Park
mesh_terms: D004194:Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D015995:Prevalence; D019057:Quality-Adjusted Life Years; D056910:Republic of Korea / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: burden of disease; disability-adjusted life years; incidence; mortality; prevention