TY  - BOOK
AU  - Conte Grand,Mariana
TI  - Simple analytics of disability adjusted life years (DALYs)
T2  - Serie documentos de trabajo
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Buenos Aires
PB  - Universidad del CEMA
KW  - INDICADORES DE SALUD
KW  - ECONOMIA DE LA SALUD
KW  - DISCAPACIDAD
N2  - Disability adjusted life years lost (DALYs) are one of the most usual health outcome metrics in environmental and health assessments and cost-effectiveness or cost/benefit analysis of interventions in those two areas. The methodology for DALYs´ calculation has been evolving under the Global Burden of Disease Project. The objective of this paper is to show in a simple way what lies behind DALYs´ method. The dependence of DALYs´ metric from parameter values and estimates is illustrated using as a base the Fox-Rushby and Hanson (2001) example for depression
UR  - http://www.ucema.edu.ar/publicaciones/download/documentos/545.pdf
ER  -