The phrase "absolute burden" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or responsibility that is overwhelmingly heavy or difficult to bear.
Example: "The absolute burden of debt weighed heavily on her shoulders, making it hard to focus on her future."
Alternatives: "overwhelming burden" or "heavy load".
For many terminally ill patients, he pointed out, "food is an absolute burden -- it increases secretions and makes them uncomfortable".
The age distribution also shows that the absolute burden of disease is currently greatest in adults.
The AER reflects the additional absolute burden of disease beyond background rates.
Relative socioeconomic inequalities were high in young persons and women, where the absolute burden of AMI was low.
39 In summary, multimorbidity affects more than one-third of the Indonesian adult population with a greater absolute burden occurring in younger individuals and in women.
This need appears strongest in urban populations, where the absolute burden of disorder is greatest, and where the geographical stability of people with FEP may be weakest.
Urban areas have been repeatedly associated with greater health inequalities as well as higher absolute burdens of illness [ 1, 2].
Populations living in urban areas experience greater health inequalities as well as higher absolute burdens of illness.
In 2000, an estimated 43 000 malignant mesotheliomas worldwide were due to occupational exposures (Driscoll et al, 2005), the largest absolute burdens being in the United States, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Western Europe (Peto et al, 1999).
Regional estimates show the highest absolute incidence burden in East and Southeast Asia, and the highest per capita burden in sub-Saharan Africa, where between 12.5% (Central sub-Saharan Africa) and 60.6% (Southern sub-Saharan Africa) of all tuberculosis disease occurs in people living with HIV (PLWH).
From 1990 to 2010, the absolute mortality burden of alcohol-attributable liver cirrhosis (measured in deaths and PYLL) and this mortality burden per 100,000 people have each increased (except for women, where alcohol-attributable liver cirrhosis deaths and PYLL per 100,000 decreased slightly).
