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3. The Global Burden of Disease concept

The Global Burden of Disease concept 29 To use time as a common currency for non-fatal health states and for YLL, time must be defined and measured for living in non-fatal health states. To place a value on the time lived in non-fatal health states, health state weights are used to formalize and quantify social preferences for different states ...

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