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Population Health Impact of Disease in Canada (PHI)

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Introduction

Overview

Policy perspective

  • Need for summary measures
  • New generation of summary measures
  • Integrated strategies
  • Dialogue between research and policy

Canadian summary measures

  • Background
  • Calculating health-adjusted life years (HALYs)
  • Building on international methods
  • Addressing criticisms of existing methods
  • Moving forward using microsimulation

Health state descriptions

  • Standardized measures of functional limitations
  • Defining health states for a disease
  • Describing functional limitations associated with health states
  • Classifying functional limitations for each health state

Health state preferences

  • Overview of preference measurement activities
  • Classification system (CLAMES)
  • Measurement tools
  • Preference measurement
  • Scoring function
  • FAQs

Workbooks and microsimulation

  • Workbooks
  • Microsimulation tool
  • FAQs

Results

  • Results by disease
  • Downloads
References

Collaborators

  • Coordinating centres
  • Research collaborators
  • Advisory committees

Glossary

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