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The Non-Communicable Disease Burden in Korea: Findings from the 2012 Korean Burden of Disease Study

Authors
Yoon, JihyunSeo, HyeyoungOh, In-HwanYoon, Seok-Jun
Issue Date
11월-2016
Publisher
KOREAN ACAD MEDICAL SCIENCES
Keywords
Disability-Adjusted Life Years; DALY; Burden of Disease; Non-communicable Diseases; Korea
Citation
JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE, v.31, pp.S158 - S167
Indexed
SCIE
SCOPUS
KCI
Journal Title
JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE
Volume
31
Start Page
S158
End Page
S167
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/86976
DOI
10.3346/jkms.2016.31.S2.S158
ISSN
1011-8934
Abstract
In recognition of Korea's rising burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), we investigated the nation's NCD status and extracted detailed information from the 2012 Korean Burden of Disease study. Consistent with that study, we used disability-adjusted life year (DALY) as a metric. Using national data sources and disability weights specific to the Korean population, we analyzed 116 disaggregated NCDs from the study's four-level disease and injury hierarchy for both sexes and nine age groups. Per 100,000 population, 21,019 DALYs were lost to 116 NCDs. Of those, 13.97% were due to premature death (death prior to the standard life expectancy for a subject's age) and 86.03% to non-fatal health outcomes. Based on traditional statistics, the main causes of health loss were mortality of neoplasms; cardiovascular and circulatory diseases; diabetes, urogenital, blood, and endocrine diseases; and chronic respiratory diseases. When combined with analyses of premature death and non-fatal outcomes, however, a substantially different view emerged: the main causes of health loss were diabetes mellitus, low back pain, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, ischemic heart disease, ischemic stroke, cirrhosis of the liver, osteoarthritis, asthma, gastritis and duodenitis, and periodontal disease (in that order), collectively causing 49.20% of DALYs. Thus, burden of disease data using DALYs rather than traditional statistics brings a new perspective to characterization of the population's health that provides practical information useful for developing and targeting national NCD control programs to better meet national needs.
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