How do Japanese rate the severity of different diseases and injuries?—an assessment of disability weights for 231 health states by 37,318 Japanese respondents

How do Japanese rate the severity of different diseases and injuries?—an assessment of disability weights for 231 health states by 37,318 Japanese respondents

Abstract Background Disability weights (DWs) are weight factors that reflect the severity of health states for estimates of disability-adjusted life years. A new set of global DWs was published for the Global Burden of Diseases and Injuries (GBD) 2013 study, which relied on sampling from various wor...

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Main Authors: Shuhei Nomura, Yoshiko Yamamoto, Daisuke Yoneoka, Juanita A. Haagsma, Joshua A. Salomon, Peter Ueda, Rintaro Mori, Damian Santomauro, Theo Vos, Kenji Shibuya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-04-01
Series:Population Health Metrics
Subjects:
Japan
Disability weight
Disease burden
Disability-adjusted life years
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-021-00253-4

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-021-00253-4

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