A comparison between health research output and burden of disease in Arab countries: evidence from Palestine

Table 2 The distribution of research output and disease burden (DALY and death) per disease category

Disease/Condition	Research output (% total)	Rank	Number of involved participants	Rank	DALY rate per 100,000 population (% total DALY)^a,b	Rank	Death rate per 100,000 population (% total death)^a,c	Rank	DALY per 100,000 population per study^a,d	Death per 100,000 population per study^a,e
Infectious	103 (20)	1	18,101	1	1170 (5)	7	18 (6)	6	11.4	0.2
Nutritional	55 (11)	2	15,450	2	536 (3)	11	0.1 (0)	12	9.7	0
Mental	54 (11)	3	13,009	3	2163 (10)	5	1.2 (0)	11	40.1	0
Cardiovascular	52 (10)	4	9598	5	3221 (15)	2	124 (39)	1	61.9	2.4
Maternal, neonatal and congenital	50 (10)	5	6763	6	5578 (26)	1	48 (15)	2	111.6	1
Blood, urogenital and endocrine diseases	48 (9)	6	6629	7	1004 (5)	8	19 (6)	5	20.9	0.4
Musculoskeletal and neurological	37 (7)	7	1744	10	2449 (11)	3	12 (4)	7	66.2	0.3
Diabetes	36 (7)	8	11,157	4	559 (3)	9	9 (3)	9	15.5	0.2
Injuries	30 (6)	9	5779	8	2314 (11)	4	28 (9)	4	77.1	0.9
Gastrointestinal	16 (3)	10	1454	11	350 (2)	12	8 (3)	10	21.9	0.5
Cancer	15 (3)	11	864	12	1420 (7)	6	40 (13)	3	94.7	2.7
Chronic respiratory	15 (3)	12	2559	9	541 (3)	10	9 (3)	8	36.1	0.6

^aData on DALYs and death in Palestine were obtained from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2015 study [13]
^b% total DALY = (DALY rate per 100,000 population for a specific disease or condition ÷ DALY rate per 100,000 population) × 100; larger value denotes higher contribution of this disease/condition to the total DALY in Palestine
^c% total death = (death rate per 100,000 population for a specific disease or condition ÷ death rate per 100,000 population) × 100; larger value denotes higher contribution of this disease/condition to the total deaths in Palestine
^dDALYs per 100,000 population per study = (DALY per 100,000 population for a specific disease or condition ÷ research output for the same disease or condition) × 100
^eDeaths per 100,000 population per study = (death per 100,000 population for a specific disease or condition ÷ research output for the same disease or condition) × 100

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