Economic value of disability-adjusted life years lost to violence: estimates for WHO Member States Valor económico de los años de vida ajustados por discapacidad perdidos por la violencia: cálculos para los Estados Miembros de la OMS

• Main Author: David W. Brown
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2008
• Subjects: Violencia; costo de enfermedad; Violence; cost of illness; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Bajos
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/cbddabb3e6604ddbb2c6465cb504c6fc

Violence is an important public health challenge with substantial economic consequences for the affected individuals, families, and communities. Using data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, the economic value of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost due to violence i...