How do Japanese rate the severity of different diseases and injuries? —an assessment of disability weights for 231 health states by 37,318 Japanese respondents

Disability weights (DWs) are weight factors that reflect the severity of health states for estimates of disability-adjusted life years. A new set of global DWs was published for the Global Burden of Diseases a...

Source: Population Health Metrics - April 23, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Shuhei Nomura, Yoshiko Yamamoto, Daisuke Yoneoka, Juanita A. Haagsma, Joshua A. Salomon, Peter Ueda, Rintaro Mori, Damian Santomauro, Theo Vos and Kenji Shibuya Tags: Research Source Type: research