POPULATION HEALTH LOSSES FROM MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION ESTIMATED WITH INDEX DALY IN KEMEROVO IN 2006–2012 years

Abstract

In addition to traditional medical and demographic indicators of public health, such as mortality, morbidity, life expectancy, in some foreign countries DALY index is widely used. Unit of measurement of D ALY index shows losses of healthy life years due to illness, disability or untimely death. In Russia, in the first place, the necessity of comparative studies of health losses touches upon socially significant diseases which include a number of infectious diseases, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. The purpose of this study was to analyze the losses of life years from myocardial infarction (MI) using DALY index.

Standard method was used to calculate DALY index. Annual dynamics of changes of life years’ losses has a similar tendency with the same of mortality from myocardial infarction. Men have higher values of D ALY index compared to women. That fact is confirmed by the literature data. The study of health losses from MI depending on the population age distribution has shown a considerable contribution to the total values of D ALY index health losses at the age group of 60 and older The study showed a reduction in the health loses from MI in Kemerovo for the period of 2006–2012 which is caused by similar dynamics of the index in the senior age group. It should be noted that DALY index values in young population are characterized by absolute and relative growth. Health losses are predominantly connected with high mortality from MI among male population and senior age group in Kemerovo.