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Valuation of health states in the US study to establish disability weights: lessons from the literature

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2010
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Rehm, J., & Frick, U. (2010). Valuation of health states in the US study to establish disability weights: lessons from the literature. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 19, 18–33. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.300

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he metric of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) has become the global standard of measuring burden of disease. DALYs are comprised of years of life lost due to premature mortality and years of healthy life lost due to living with disability. In order to calculate the second part of the DALY equation, disease specific disability weights have to be established, i.e. measures for the decline of health associated with these disease states, which vary between zero for perfect health and one for death. Although these disability weights

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  • Rehm, Jürgen
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  • Frick, Ulrich
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19

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18

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English

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1049-8931

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Rehm, J., & Frick, U. (2010). Valuation of health states in the US study to establish disability weights: lessons from the literature. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 19, 18–33. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.300

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