Year: 1997
Type: report
Abstract: 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 international context.A European research network consisting of groups in Great Britain, France, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands is being funded by the EU within the scope of the BIOMED-II program.It will launch an international study (starting 1998) into the similarities and differences between these countries with respect to disability weights for diseases and the possibilities for comparable country-specific burden-of-disease estimates.
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1962704273