Disability weight measurement for the severity of different diseases in Wuhan, China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Measurement of the Chinese burden of disease with disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) requires disability weight (DW) that quantify health losses for all non-fatal consequences of disease and injury. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2013 DW study indicates that it is limited by lack of geographic variation in DW data and by the current measurement methodology. We aim to estimate DW for a set of health states from major diseases in the Wuhan population.

Methods

We conducted the DW measurement study for 206 health states through a household survey with computer-assisted face-to-face interviews and a web-based survey. Based on GBD 2013 DW study, paired comparison (PC) and Population health equivalence (PHE) method was used and different PC/PHE questions were ran

SUBMITTER: Liu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10157574 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature