Slightly more than half related to all health problems with our musculoskeletal (back pain, neck pain and arthritis) or mental problems (depression, anxiety, drug and alcohol addiction).
Of octogenarians in developed countries only 0.03% have no health problems. The number of people increased by more than 10 diseases faced between 1990 and 2013 by 52%.
Eight diseases to health loss lead take any more than 10% of the world: dental decay (2.4 billion people), blood pressure-related headache (1.6 billion), iron deficiency anemia (1.2 billion), G6PD deficiency (1, 18 billion), age deafness (1.23 billion), genital herpes (1.12 billion), migraine (850 million) and ascariasis (worm) (800 million).
Diabetes is increasing, but people do not die on
An important trend is that disability rates fall much more slowly than mortality. The number of people with diabetes has increased by 43% over the past 23 years. The number of deaths due to diabetes increased by 'only' 9%. The health loss due to diabetes, however, grew much louder by 136%. "The fact that mortality is decreasing faster than non-lethal diseases and injuries is a further proof of how important it is to pay attention to the growing health loss associated with the leading causes of disability, and not just focus on reducing of mortality, "said Theo Vos, lead author, University of Washington, in Science Daily .
We are living longer but not healthier
Worldwide, the number of healthy life years lost (DALYs: disability-adjusted life year) due to illness and disability (not death) of 21% in 1990 to 31% in 2013. The number of years in which we faced increased by deteriorating health by 43% increasing. We therefore appear to live longer with a disease that we do not die.
According to the researchers is the deteriorating health of the world associated with increased life expectancy. Old age comes, literally, with flaws. They warn of a further rise in the burden of disease in the coming decades. Chronic diseases with a non-fatal dominate the overall disease burden. Currently, the focus of care especially to combat causes of death, not to combat restrictions. "We must also pay attention to the increase of diseases and how to treat it so that quality of life remains high," says researcher Theo Vos of the University of Washington.
The results of the study are published in the scientific journal The Lancet. The research was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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