Table 1 Information required for the estimation of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for rhodesiense sleeping sickness
From: Estimating the burden of rhodesiense sleeping sickness during an outbreak in Serere, eastern Uganda
Information type | Specific data required | Data sources |
|---|---|---|
Years-of-life-lost (YLL) | 1) Number of deaths | - health unit records of case fatality by age/sex |
|  |  | - case under-reporting estimates (by age and sex, based on Odiit et al. [30] and Fèvre et al. [21]) |
| Â | 2) Life expectancy | - Uganda-specific life table for 2000 [31] |
| Â | 3) Distribution of age at death | - health unit records of case age (with or without age-weighted case fatality rate and under-reporting rate) |
Years-of-life-lived with disability (YLD) | 1) Disability weighting | - expert opinion – see text (rhodesiense disability weighting not previously explicitly provided [16, 35]) |
| Â | 2) Duration of illness | - pre-admission from Odiit et al. [37] |
| Â | Â | - post-admission from health unit records of cases |
| Â | 3) Age-weighting of productivity | - health unit records of case age |