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The statewide burden of obesity, smoking, low income and chronic diseases in the United States

Author(s) -

Haomiao Jia,

Erica I. Lubetkin

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdp012

Subject(s) - behavioral risk factor surveillance system , medicine , overweight , life expectancy , environmental health , quality adjusted life year , obesity , demography , gerontology , population , public health , disease burden , cost effectiveness , risk analysis (engineering) , nursing , sociology

We developed an estimation equation of EuroQol EQ-5D index scores from the Healthy Days measures of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for use in burden of disease and cost-effectiveness studies in population subgroups. This study estimated EQ-5D scores, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) for the USA and the individual states.

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