Combine health and potential impact fraction (PIF)

Applies PIF calculated from relative risks (RRs) to the current observed health burden from the Global Burden of Disease data to generate the scenario health burdens

Usage

combine_health_and_pif(pif_values, hc = DISEASE_BURDEN)

Arguments

pif_values

vector of values of PIFs for all age and sex categories

hc

data frame of current burden of disease

Value

estimated scenario burden of disease for all age and sex categories

Details

This function performs the following steps:

• the current observed health burden for a particular disease is multiplied by the PIF, i.e the change in fraction in disease expected for the current scenario compared with the reference scenario