Incidence, prevalence, and hybrid approaches to calculating disability-adjusted life years

<p>Abstract</p> <p>When disability-adjusted life years are used to measure the burden of disease on a population in a time interval, they can be calculated in several different ways: from an incidence, pure prevalence, or hybrid perspective. I show that these calculation methods ar...

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Main Author: Schroeder S
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-09-01
Series:Population Health Metrics
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Online Access:http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/10/1/19