Measuring the health burden of chronic disease and injury using health adjusted life expectancy and the Health Utilities Index.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:To estimate the burden of illness from chronic disease and injury using a population based health survey, which contains both measures of chronic disease and a utility based health related quality of life (HRQOL) measure. DESIGN:An adapted Sullivan method was used to calculate cause deleted health adjusted life expectancies for chronic conditions. SETTING:Ontario, Canada, 1996/97. SUBJECTS:The 1996/97 Ontario Health Survey (n=35 527) was used to estimate the prevalence of chronic conditions. A cause deleted approach was used to estimate the impact of these conditions on the Health Utilities Index (HUI). Cause deleted probabilities of dying were derived with the cause eliminated life table technique and death data from vital statistics for Ontario 1996/97 (n=156 610). RESULTS:Eli

SUBMITTER: Manuel DG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1732044 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature