Describing the Development of a Health State Valuation Protocol to Obtain Community-Derived Disability Weights.

ABSTRACT: For the prioritization of the allocation of national resources, estimating the burden of disease studies play a critical role. Hence the first Global Burden of Disease study conducted in the 1990s was done for this particular estimation. By the means of introducing disability-adjusted life year (DALY) metric, the burden of various diseases was calculated using disability weights (DWs)-a component of DALY. DWs are values that capture individuals' perception regarding the severity of diseases that involve valuation tools and health state descriptions. Various studies have been conducted over the past few decades to evaluate health states and derive disease-specific disability weights using Person-Trade off, Time-trade off, etc. However, use of these complex and cognitively demanding methods

SUBMITTER: Lobo E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6798035 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature