Review of disability weight studies: comparison of methodological choices and values
Open Access
- 23 August 2014
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Population Health Metrics
- Vol. 12 (1), 20
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-014-0020-2
Abstract
The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is widely used to assess the burden of different health problems and risk factors. The disability weight, a value anchored between 0 (perfect health) and 1 (equivalent to death), is necessary to estimate the disability component (years lived with disability, YLDs) of the DALY. After publication of the ground-breaking Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 1996, alternative sets of disability weights have been developed over the past 16 years, each using different approaches with regards to the panel, health state description, and valuation methods. The objective of this study was to review all studies that developed disability weights and to critically assess the methodological design choices (health state and time description, panel composition, and valuation method). Furthermore, disability weights of eight specific conditions were compared.Keywords
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