Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

The Lancet ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 380 (9859) ◽  
pp. 2129-2143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua A Salomon ◽  
Theo Vos ◽  
Daniel R Hogan ◽  
Michael Gagnon ◽  
Mohsen Naghavi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Burden Of Disease ◽  
Global Burden Of Disease ◽  
Global Burden ◽  
Measurement Study ◽  
Common Values ◽  
Disability Weights ◽  
Disease Study

Disability weights for vision disorders in Global Burden of Disease study

The Lancet ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 381 (9860) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh R Taylor ◽  
Jost B Jonas ◽  
Jill Keeffe ◽  
Janet Leasher ◽  
Kovin Naidoo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Burden Of Disease ◽  
Global Burden Of Disease ◽  
Global Burden ◽  
Vision Disorders ◽  
Disability Weights ◽  
Disease Study

Health Can Be Measured

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-73
Author(s):  
Joshua A. Salomon
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Burden Of Disease ◽  
Global Burden Of Disease ◽  
Global Burden ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Disability Weights ◽  
Disease Study ◽  
Value Of Health

This chapter defends the view that it is possible to measure the quantity of health and not simply the value of health and that the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) shows how this might be done. The author begins by offering a brief introduction to the GBD, focusing in particular on the evolution of measurement constructs and approaches pertaining to disability weights over the first several iterations of the GBD. The author then describes the new approach to disability weights measurement taken in the GBD 2010 study. Based on this, the chapter presents a conceptual framework and empirical evidence to support the claim that it is possible to measure quantities of health.

Ethical Dimensions of the Global Burden of Disease

2020 ◽  
pp. 24-48
Author(s):  
Christopher J. L. Murray ◽  
S. Andrew Schroeder
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Burden Of Disease ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Global Burden Of Disease ◽  
Global Burden ◽  
Health States ◽  
Complex Information ◽  
Disease Study ◽  
Multiple Domains

This chapter suggests that descriptive epidemiological studies like the Global Burden of Disease Study can usefully be divided into four tasks: describing individuals’ health states over time, assessing their health states under a range of counterfactual scenarios, summarizing the information collected, and then packaging it for presentation. The authors show that each of these tasks raises important and challenging ethical questions. They comment on some of the philosophical issues involved in measuring health states, attributing causes to health outcomes, choosing the counterfactual against which to assess causes, aggregating and summarizing complex information across multiple domains, discounting, age-weighting, handling fetal deaths, measuring health inequalities, representing uncertainty, and assessing personal responsibility for health outcomes.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document