In This Section
Functional Health Status
Research Team
The health of a population is determined by more than mortality rates and causes of death. The ability to function for those who may have become sick or disabled from disease or injury is a critical input to population health measurement. One of the advantages of using disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) to measure population health is that they take into account both mortality and morbidity.
In order to elevate morbidity to equal significance as mortality and define a metric that measures them comparably, we need to know the degree of health detriment that should be attributed to any morbid condition. The information is essential for policymakers, public health officials, and others to understand the major causes of disease burden in their communities and design programs to reduce that burden.
The Functional Health Status research team works to assign severity weights to various health states, such as back pain or deafness, so that comparable estimates of the burden of disease for all major health conditions can be made. The health state severity weights generated by the Functional Health Status research team are critical for accurate assessment of a population’s health and for better targeting scarce resources. If policymakers were just to look at incidence and prevalence alongside causes of death, they may underappreciate the significant impact that some types of nonfatal conditions, such as depression, have upon populations.
Key Activities
- Analyze health measurement survey data
Impact
To our knowledge, the health measurement surveys on severity weights represent the first of their kind. Prior burden of disease studies have all relied upon expert opinion to determine severity weights, and using a population-based approach to gathering comparison data will lead to better, more accurate results. Furthermore, these survey-based results will help produce the most comprehensive and analytically advanced set of burden of disease estimates generated to date.
Related Publications & Presentations
Wang H*, Dwyer-Lindgren L, Lofgren KT, Rajaratnam JK, Marcus JR, Levin-Rector A, Levitz C, Lopez AD, Murray CJL. Age-specific and sex-specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. The Lancet. 2012 Dec 13; 380: 2071–2094.
*Corresponding author
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