Eliciting national and subnational sets of disability weights in mainland China: Findings from the Chinese disability weight measurement study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The disability weight (DW) quantifies the severity of health states from disease sequela and is a pivotal parameter for disease burden calculation. We conducted a national and subnational DW measurement in China.

Methods

In 2020-2021, we conducted a web-based survey to assess DWs for 206 health states in 31 Chinese provinces targeting health workers via professional networks. We fielded questions of paired comparison (PC) and population health equivalence (PHE). The PC data were analysed by probit regression analysis, and the regression results were anchored by results from the PHE responses on the DW scale between 0 (no loss of health) and 1 (health loss equivalent to death).

Findings

We used PC responses from 468,541 respondents to estimate DWs of health

SUBMITTER: Liu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9335373 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature