Health, well-being, and measuring the burden of disease

Population Health Metrics

Daniel M Hausman¹ 

[1] Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Helen C White Hall, 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA

关键词: Health measurement;    Well-being;    Burden of disease;   

Others  :  806083
DOI  :  10.1186/1478-7954-10-13

 received in 2012-01-12, accepted in 2012-07-02,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

This essay asks whether the global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors (GBD) should be measured in terms of their consequences for health, as maintained by most of those who are attempting to measure the GBD, or in terms of their consequences for well-being, as argued by John Broome. It answers that the burden of disease should be understood in terms of the consequences of disease for health, and it defends the wider efforts to measure health by those who are in other ways skeptical of the project of measuring the GBD.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Hausman; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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