From: Reflections on key methodological decisions in national burden of disease assessments
Years of life lost to premature mortality | Years of life lived with disability | Disability Adjusted Life Year |
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Mortality data and definition of ill-defined deaths | Definition of disease | Age weighting and time discounting |
Redistribution of ‘garbage codes’/ill-defined deaths | Counting disease frequency | Dealing with uncertainty in estimates |
Choice of life table | Usage of disability weights | Choice of standard population |
 | Application of severity distributions |  |
 | Multimorbidity corrections |  |