Disability weights for environmental noise-related health states: results of a disability weights measurement study in Europe.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Measurement of the burden of disease using disability-adjusted life years requires disability weights to quantify health losses for non-fatal consequences of disease and injury. We aimed to obtain a set of disability weights for environmental and non-environmental noise-related health states (NOISE) using a nationally representative sample survey among the general population of four European countries; and to compare the resulting NOISE disability weights with those estimated in the Global Burden of Disease 2010 (GBD 2010) and European (EURO) disability weights measurement studies.

Methods

We administered a web-based survey among a cohort of individuals from Hungary, Italy, Sweden and the Netherlands. It included paired comparison questions on 82 different healt

SUBMITTER: Charalampous P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11812797 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature