Context matters for disability and priority setting for musculoskeletal diseases: revisiting the egalitarian approach to disability weights and disability-adjusted life-years
Health metrics have evolved with increasing sophistication. The disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) has emerged as a widely used metric. While DALYs vary between countries, the global disability weights (DWs) that are integral to the DALY ignore the potential impact of local factors on the burden o...
Main Authors: | John G Meara, Daniel Scott Corlew, Helena Franco, Manon Pigeolet, Lisa Nussbaum |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2023-06-01
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Series: | BMJ Global Health |
Online Access: | https://gh.bmj.com/content/8/6/e012106.full |
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