Imagine two people. One is completely blind. The other suffers from constant and intense back pain.
Who is healthier overall?
A landmark global health survey being launched today will explore the impact of different diseases and injuries. A person’s health state may limit how well parts of the body or mind work. Some people are not able to do everything that others can, with some people more severely limited than others. This survey intends to measure peoples’ priorities and values around these various states of health.
We are writing to ask you and your organization to participate in this online survey, which can be found at this link: http://gbdsurvey.org
The survey is part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, in collaboration with four other leading institutions: Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Queensland, and the World Health Organization.
The goal is to collect responses from at least 50,000 people worldwide. Please consider sharing this page and encouraging participation within your organization. In addition, we would ask you to consider forwarding information about this survey to colleagues and contacts outside your organization who might be interested in participating.The survey takes about 15 minutes to complete. Participation is completely voluntary and anonymous. In the near future, we hope to translate the survey into additional languages.
By participating in the survey, you will contribute to the scientific understanding of global health problems and ultimately enable policymakers and health care leaders to make better decisions based on a stronger evidence base. Summary survey results will be posted online at www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org upon completion of the study in spring 2011
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Completely blind is healthier, most probably, especially if does not suffer every days from his/her deficit.
Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, MD
Associate professor of Neurosurgery
the blind person.