Assessing disability weights based on the responses of 30,660 people from four European countries

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Haagsma, Juanita A ^a,b   de Noordhout, Charline Maertens ^c   Polinder, Suzanne ^a   Vos, Theo ^b   Havelaar, Arie H ^d,e,f   Cassini, Alessandro ^g   Devleesschauwer, Brecht ^h   Kretzschmar, Mirjam E ^d,i   Speybroeck, Niko ^c   Salomon, Joshua A ^j  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^h GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^j HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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Author keywords

Disability adjusted life years; Disability weight; Disease burden; Prioritisation; Summary measure of population health; Value of life

Indexed keywords

DISABILITY; DISEASE INCIDENCE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; PRIORITIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; WEIGHT;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUNGARY; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPINAL CORD LESION; SWEDEN; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

HUNGARY; ITALY; NETHERLANDS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84929574903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12963-015-0042-4     Document Type: Article

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