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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurosurg Focus. 2018 May;44(5):E16. doi: 10.3171/2018.1.FOCUS17802

TABLE 1.

DALYs calculated using a human capital approach

DALY 3% Discounting DALY (3,K,C) No Discounting DALY (0,K,C)
Age weighting (r,1,0.04) 450,235 544,703
No age weighting (r,0,0) 661,313 804,113

(r,K,C) = (discount rate, age weighting modulation constant, age weighting disability constant)