Incidence, prevalence, and hybrid approaches to calculating disability-adjusted life years
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Incidence, prevalence, and hybrid approaches to calculating disability-adjusted life years
When disability-adjusted life years are used to measure the burden of disease on a population in a time interval, they can be calculated in several different ways: from an incidence, pure prevalence, or hybrid perspective. I show that these calculation methods are not equivalent and discuss some of the formal difficulties each method faces. I show that if we don't discount the value of future h...
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عنوان ژورنال: Population Health Metrics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1478-7954
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-10-19