Rocio Garcia-Retamero, Ulrich Hoffrage
Visual representation of statistical information improves diagnostic inferences in doctors and their patients
Social science & medicine (1982)
european union eu faces many healthrelated challenges burden diseases information resulting trends time essential health planning paper reports estimates disease burden eu individual 27 eu countries 2019 compares 2010 used global burden disease 2019 study estimates 95 uncertainty intervals whole eu country evaluate agestandardised death years life lost ylls years lived disability ylds disabilityadjusted life years dalys rates level 2 causes well life expectancy healthy life expectancy hale 2019 agestandardised death daly rates eu 4658 deaths 202510 dalys per 100000 inhabitants respectively 2010 2019 significant decreases agestandardised death yll rates across eu countries however yld rates remained mainly unchanged largest decreases agestandardised daly rates observed hivaids sexually transmitted diseases transport injuries 19 diabetes kidney diseases showed significant increase agestandardised daly rates across eu 35 addition mental disorders showed increasing agestandardised yll rate 145 clear trend towards improvement overall health status eu differences countries eu health policymakers need address burden diseases paying specific attention causes mental disorders many opportunities mutual learning among otherwise similar countries different patterns disease