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DALY calculation in practice: a stepwise approach

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  1. Faculty of Public Health, Institute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

    Brecht Devleesschauwer, Charline Maertens de Noordhout & Niko Speybroeck

  2. Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

    Brecht Devleesschauwer & Pierre Dorny

  3. Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

    Arie H. Havelaar

  4. Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, University Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Arie H. Havelaar

  5. Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Juanita A. Haagsma

  6. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

    Nicolas Praet & Pierre Dorny

  7. Department of Comparative Physiology and Biometrics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

    Luc Duchateau

  8. Section of Epidemiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Paul R. Torgerson

  9. Unit of Public Health and Surveillance, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium

    Herman Van Oyen

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Devleesschauwer, B., Havelaar, A.H., Maertens de Noordhout, C. et al. DALY calculation in practice: a stepwise approach. Int J Public Health 59, 571–574 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-014-0553-y

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Keywords

  • Disease Model
  • Population Attributable Fraction
  • Disability Weight
  • Expert Elicitation
  • United Nations Statistics Division