Calculating disability-adjusted life years to quantify burden of disease

International Journal of Public Health

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 565-569

  Devleesschauwer, Brecht ^a,b   Havelaar, Arie H ^c,d   Maertens De Noordhout, Charline ^a   Haagsma, Juanita A ^e   Praet, Nicolas ^f   Dorny, Pierre ^b,f   Duchateau, Luc ^b   Torgerson, Paul R ^g   Van Oyen, Herman ^h   Speybroeck, Niko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^h SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; COST OF ILLNESS; DISABLED PERSON; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PREMATURE MORTALITY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGE FACTORS; COST OF ILLNESS; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84901246303     PISSN: 16618556     EISSN: 1420911X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-014-0552-z     Document Type: Article

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