Affiliation:
1. Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Chandigarh, India
2. Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
Abstract
Background:
The prevalence of skin diseases has increased over the last few decades, and they contribute to a significant burden on health-care systems across the world.
Aims/Objective:
This report looks at the burden of skin and subcutaneous diseases in terms of years lived with disability and agestandardised years lived with disability in India using the Global Burden of Disease Study results from 2017.
Methods:
Data were obtained from the Global Burden of Disease online interactive tool. Updated estimates of the world’s health for 359 diseases and injuries and 84 risk factors from 1990 to 2017 are available in this interactive tool.
Results:
Years lived with disability due to skin and subcutaneous diseases accounted for 4.02% of the total years lived with disability in India in 2017. There was an increase of 53.7% in all age standardised years lived with disability for all the skin and subcutaneous diseases from 1990 to 2017. Among skin and subcutaneous diseases, dermatitis contributed maximum years lived with disability (1.40 million; 95% uncertainty interval, 0.82–2.21) in 2017, followed by urticaria (1.02 million; 95% uncertainty interval, 0.06–1.44) with percentage increases of 48.9% and 45.7% respectively. Conclusion: The burden due to infectious skin diseases (e.g., scabies, fungal skin disease and bacterial skin disease) and non-infectious diseases (e.g., dermatitis, urticaria and psoriasis) has increased over the past three decades, however the age-standardised years lived with disability for leprosy, scabies, fungal infections, sexually transmitted infections and non-melanoma skin cancer (basal cell carcinoma) has decreased. The high burden of skin and subcutaneous diseases demand that they be given due importance in the national programmes and health policy of India.
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Dermatology
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