THE BURDEN OF DISEASE OF WOMEN IN MID-EAST, QATAR
Author(s)
Kim EJ*1;Yoon SJ2, Bener A3 1Cheju Halla Univ., Jeju, South Korea, 2Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, 3Hamad MEdical Corporation & Dept. of Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, Doha, Qatar
OBJECTIVES: Qatar is one of the highest GDP in the world so the healthcare facility has high quality. But the men powers or technical skills have been underdeveloped compared to the similar GDP status countries. In addition, due to the peculiarity of culture and religion, the social activities of women are prohibited. These characters can effect on the burden of disease of Qatar. So in this study, We calculate the burden of disease then increase the international comparability. METHODS: Qatar has had no social insurance or medical insurance so our research team could get the mortality data and the inpatients data from the national hospitals in Qatar and the national community health research. Using the data, we calculated DALYs of Qatar. But in the case of visiting the primary health care center or outpatients, they didn’t use ICD code for the recording disease diagnosis. So there was some limitations regarding medical record data application. Qatar used ICD-9 code for their disease diagnosis then we converted to ICD-10 code then calculated DALYs. We used Dismod-II for estimating the age of onset and the illness of duration. For the disease disability, we applied disability weight of WHO. RESULTS: The most burden diseases in Qatar were perinatal diseases. Major 5 diseases among top 15 diseases were perinatal related diseases. Especially, asphyxia and birth trauma which were appeared during labor were the highest burden of diseases of women(9.02DALY/100,000 persons). CONCLUSIONS: The burden of diseases of Qatar was likely to developing country even though their high GDP. That is, the burden of perinatal diseases was higher but the burden of chronic diseases was lower. Especially, compare to other developed countries, the burden of abortion was high. It meant that the cultural specialties like a favoritism of boy was reflected. These kinds of diseases(like perinatal diseases) could decrease training people as obstetric professions.
Conference/Value in Health Info
2013-05, ISPOR 2013, New Orleans, LA, USA
Value in Health, Vol. 16, No. 3 (May 2013)
Code
PIH9
Topic
Epidemiology & Public Health
Disease
Reproductive and Sexual Health