Jyrki Turunen
Biosciences
study program
Introduction
to Public Health
Epidemics
and pandemics
Essay 2 / IPH 2009
Global Burden of Disease
The
WHO global burden of disease (GBD) measures burden of disease using the
disability adjusted life year (DALY). This time-based measure combines years of
life lost due to premature mortality and years of life lost due to in states of
less than full health. The DALY metric was developed in the original GBD 1990
study to assess the burden of disease consistently across diseases, risk
factors and diseases (WHO). Of course,
full health means ability to do his best. There is not so many persons who
really are able to do his best, we can just discuss about limits of health.
Questions like: “How you feel today?” “Is everything fine?” help us to do
qualitative search. Of course, people might feel their lives unhappy, or they
just have something else to do and they are not so eager to answer to these
questions. So we can measure their mental state by asking: “How you feel it?” I
really know that is annoying because never can know who is asking, so we have
to define that question something like that: “How you feel it?” Usually we can
see that many of us use to ask these questions because there is nothing to
speak or ask. Are little bit bored to our lives? Why it is so, that we don’t
have anything common, nothing but the workload and very less common moments.
Easily we can say that we are afraid of love and half it is true, but not
necessarily. We can define that burden of disease as numbers: “How many
patients?” “What disease?”. Then we can try to solve these numbers, but should
we try look patients, these little human beings behind the disease. Why we
don’t know anything about these persons? Lot of things to think and the answer
is always so obvious. Unfortunately, sometimes the answer is wrong, who that
human being really is? Does he or she have any feelings, probably not because
he or she is mentally far away from you. Now we come to the points we have
here. We just have to keep these little borders up, because that is the way
prevent diseases in numbers. The price just might be little bit less mental
health but what really is the problem, real diseases or state of our minds?
Business keeps some limitations up so we really don’t have opportunity to be
friends. Even if we are outside of business, networks, the threat to some ones
business. Afterwards we can say that are just cattle of business. When we go
through that little border the life in business begins: “What is your problem?”
If there is nothing to solve or nothing to offer, we just keep asking worthless
questions, like “How you feel it?” What are we afraid of only one life to live.
On one side of the divide is a world “cash but no opportunities; on the other,
a world with “no money, just opportunities.” (Economist.com). Business and
health are related to each other in a sense of financial globalization. Not so easy to predict what is going on and
years of life lost by thinking not doing and opposite.
References:
http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14745085
