Burden of childhood and adolescence asthma in Nigeria: Disability adjusted life years.

Background: A better representation of the burden of childhood asthma should rely on both morbidity and mortality and not only mortality. This will reduce the dearth of information on burden of childhood asthma, and enhance evidence-based decision-making. In this study, burden of childhood asthma was estimated, using disability-adjusted-life-years (DALYs), factoring in the disability weights for asthma, age at mortality and life expectancy.