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DALY Map is
not a traditional map, but rather a table that provides a snapshot of
the burden of disease by country. Each DALY Map table shows how many and
where DALYs are being lost in a country, by health condition, by age,
and by gender. The data is mostly derived from the Disease Control
Priorities Project II (DCP2), whose 2006 report estimated the burden of
disease by region as of 2001. (The DCP2 is a joint effort of a number of
agencies, including the NIH, World Bank, and others.) PSI then allocated
the DALYs to each country and updated the data to 2006 based on
population growth statistics from the PopulationReference Bureau (PRB).
Because data sources for specific countries can be sparse, DCP2
groups countries into regions. Much of the country level data
you see here is extrapolated from regional data. However, PSI
improved this edition of the maps by including country-specific
HIV prevalence data from the PRB. Estimates of the malaria
burden of disease in each country were improved with information
from an article by John W. Snow et al., published in the journal
Nature in March 2005 which assigns each country to a category
ranging from highly endemic malaria to no malaria. Malaria
burden is estimated accordingly.
Please explore the country DALY Maps by clicking on a continent,
then clicking on a specific country to download its DALY Map.
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