Table 3.
Causes of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for the 25 conflict-affected countries and the corresponding lower bound of development assistance (DA), child health (CH) and adolescent health (AH) in 2017
| Cause | Child health | Adolescent health | ||||||
| DALYs | DA | DALYs | DA | |||||
| Value (million) | Proportion in total DALYs caused by CH (%) | Value (million) | Proportion in total DA for CH (%) | Value (million) | Proportion in total DALYs caused by AH (%) | Value (million) | Proportion in total DA for AH (%) | |
| Communicable diseases, excluding WASH diseases | 39.2 | 33.1 | 596.1 | 43.8 | 6.0 | 11.5 | 39.5 | 49.5 |
| Injury and physical rehabilitation | 11.6 | 9.8 | 45.3 | 3.3 | 12.2 | 23.3 | 11.7 | 14.6 |
| Mental disorders | 0.8 | 0.7 | 5.6 | 0.4 | 5.0 | 9.5 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
| Non-communicable diseases, excluding nutrition and mental diseases | 22.7 | 19.1 | 50.1 | 3.7 | 19.0 | 36.2 | 2.4 | 3.0 |
| Nutritional deficiency diseases | 10.4 | 8.8 | 407.0 | 29.9 | 2.5 | 4.8 | 10.0 | 12.5 |
| WASH diseases | 22.3 | 18.8 | 80.9 | 5.9 | 1.4 | 2.6 | 4.5 | 5.6 |
| Other causes | 11.5 | 9.7 | 175.8 | 12.9 | 6.3 | 12.0 | 8.6 | 10.8 |
| Total | 118.5 | 100.0 | 1360.8 | 100.0 | 52.4 | 100.0 | 79.8 | 100.0 |
See ‘appendix table 10’ for definitions of the causes of DALYs.
WASH, water, sanitation and hygiene.