A community health nurse is investigating international diseases. Which of the following would the nurse track by using the global burden of disease (GBD)?
a. The number of cases of HIV/AIDS in a country
b. Losses from premature death and losses of healthy life that result from disability
c. The economic impact of disability on less-er-developed countries
d. The rate of disability in industrialized na-tions
ANS: B
The GBD combines losses from premature death and losses of healthy life that result from disa-bility. The GBD represents units of disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs). This statistic is not specific to a particular disease or a particular developmental stage of a country.
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