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Application of disability-adjusted life years to predict the burden of injuries and fatalities due to public exposure to engineering technologies

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Title
Application of disability-adjusted life years to predict the burden of injuries and fatalities due to public exposure to engineering technologies
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Population Health Metrics, March 2014
DOI 10.1186/1478-7954-12-9
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Arun Veeramany, Srikanth Mangalam

Abstract

As a public safety regulator, the Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) of Ontario, Canada predicts and measures the burden of injuries and fatalities as its primary means of characterizing the state of public safety and for decision-making purposes through the use of a simulation model. The paper proposes a simulation-based predictive model and the use of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) as a population health metric for the purposes of reporting, benchmarking, public safety decision-making, and organizational goal setting. The proposed approach could be viewed as advancement in the application of traditional population health metrics, used primarily for public health policy decisions, for the measurement and prediction of safety risks across a wide variety of engineering technologies to which the general public is exposed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 5%
Switzerland 1 5%
Unknown 17 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 16%
Student > Master 3 16%
Student > Bachelor 2 11%
Professor 2 11%
Other 1 5%
Other 4 21%
Unknown 4 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 4 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 16%
Computer Science 2 11%
Psychology 2 11%
Social Sciences 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 6 32%
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#18,369,403
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