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Preface

Disease burden measures burden of disease using Disability
Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). This time-based measure
combines years of life lost due to premature mortality and
years of life lost due to time lived in states of less than full
health.

This report provides a comprehensive result of the National
Burden of Diseases and Injuries study in Malaysia. Our
intention is to give a comprehensive overview of our
approaches, results and some discussion on the results,
suggestions and recommendations from the study for future
planning in Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH) especially in
strengthening local data sources. Despite the complexity in
the burden of disease methodology, in addition to moderate-
quality data sources, we were still be able to produce
reasonable results which can be used to guide the planning
of programmes by the Ministry of Health.

Much effort was taken to improve the quality of data sources
and hence the study itself. Hopefully, this report can be used
as a powerful reference for future work to help in improving
local data sources and to produce some valuable information
for the Ministry of Health to use in policy-making efforts
and planning. The Centre for Burden of Disease Research is
ever-ready to collaborate with other organizations within the
Ministry of Health in striving to produce the most accurate
and comprehensive estimates of diseases burden in Malaysia.

In future, we hope to estimate the burden of disease
attributable to various risk factors and produce projections
of diseases burden in Malaysian for the next 10 years. It is
hoped that it provides the foundation on which debates on
national health priority setting can be based.

iv Malaysian Burden Of Disease And Injury Study 2015-2017
CENTRE FOR BURDEN OF DISEASE RESEARCH, INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH