Disability weights for diseases in the Netherlands

作者：Marlies E. A. Stouthard, Marie‐Louise Essink‐Bot, G.J. Bonsel, Jan J. Barendregt, Pieter G. N. Kramers, H.P.A. van de Water, Louise J. Gunning-Schepers, P.J. van der Maas · 发表于：Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) · 年份：1997 · 被引用次数：274 · 研究领域：Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation

NY COMPREHENSIVE measure for the burden of disease in a population has to contain information about morbidity and mortality.Depending on a number of choices, such as whether prevalences are used or incidence-duration-mortality estimates, whether life table populations are used or dynamic demographic models, a whole 'family of measures' can be derived.Examples are the QALY, the Healthy Life Expectancy, and the DALY.The latter stems from the Global Burden of Disease project, which was a major breakthrough in its rigorous application of uniform methodology. AThe next steps to be taken in this area are the further refining of the methodology and finding a balance between making the information sufficiently country-or region-specific, while at the same time maintaining comparability between countries.Such information should contribute to a more rational health policy making, also in the sense that it generates reference data that are indispensable for the economic evaluation of any health intervention.The present report is one step towards such a burden-of-disease framework for the Netherlands.It describes disability weights for the Netherlands and how they were derived, building further on the work and with the support of Christopher Murray.The study was funded by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports.Further improvement and validation of the methodology to derive the weights, their international transferability and their applicability will be investigated in an intern...