Prioritising the development of severity distributions in burden of disease studies for countries in the European region

Prioritising the development of severity distributions in burden of disease studies for countries in the European region

Abstract Severity distributions are a means of summarising the range of health loss suffered to disease which enables estimates of disease occurrence to be paired with disability weights to estimate Years Lost to Disability (YLD) in burden of disease studies. There is a lack of current data explorin...

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Main Authors: Grant M. A. Wyper, Ian Grant, Eilidh Fletcher, Neil Chalmers, Gerry McCartney, Diane L. Stockton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-01-01
Series:Archives of Public Health
Subjects:
Severity distribution
Burden of disease
DALY
YLD
Summary measures of population health
SBOD
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-019-0385-6

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