Disability Weights and Severity Levels

• Disability weights range from 0 to 1 based on severity 0 being no disability and 1 being equivalent to death
• There are different methods to compute or assign disability weights
• Global Burden of Disease study is one of the most thorough and extensive projects estimating disability weights
• These weights are available in hmsidwR

library(tidyverse)
library(hmsidwR)
library(knitr)
disability_weights <- hmsidwR::disweights

select_dws <- disability_weights %>%
  filter(year == 2019, sequela == 'Mild early syphilis infection') %>%
  select(sequela, dw, upper, lower) %>% 
  head()

kable(select_dws)

sequela	dw	upper	lower
Mild early syphilis infection	0.006	0.002	0.012