Updating Disability Weights for Measurement of Healthy Life Expectancy and Disability-adjusted Life Year in Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The present study aimed to update the methodology to estimate cause-specific disability weight (DW) for the calculation of disability adjusted life year (DALY) and health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) based on the opinion of medical professional experts. Furthermore, the study also aimed to compare and assess the size of DW according to two analytical methods and estimate the most valid DW from the perspective of years lost due to disability and HALE estimation.

Methods

A self-administered web-based survey was conducted ranking five causes of disease. A total of 901 participants started the survey and response data of 806 participants were used in the analyses. In the process of rescaling predicted probability to DW on a scale from 0 to 1, two models were used f

SUBMITTER: Kim YE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7358061 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature