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Disability-Adjusted Life Years: A Critical Review [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Health Economics, 1997
Abstract The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) has emerged in the international health policy lexicon as a new measure of the ‘burden of disease ‘. The conceptual framework for DALYs is described and justified in the paper ‘Quantifying the burden of disease: the technical basis for disability-adjusted life years ‘ (Murray 1994 ...
Anand, S, Hanson, K
openaire   +6 more sources

What are Disability-Adjusted Life Years? [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Public Health, 2013
The Disability-Adjusted Life Year or DALY is a summary measure of public health widely used to quantify burden of disease. In the DALY philosophy, every person is born with a certain number of life years potentially lived in optimal health. People may lose these healthy life years through living with illness and/or through dying before a reference life
N Praet   +4 more
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Calculating disability-adjusted life years to quantify burden of disease [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Public Health, 2014
The disability-adjusted life year or DALY is a summary measure of public health widely used to quantify burden of disease. In the DALY philosophy, every person is born with a certain number of life years potentially lived in optimal health. People may lose these healthy life years through living with illness and/or through dying before a reference life
Devleesschauwer, Brecht   +9 more
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Simple Analytics of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYS) [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
Disability adjusted life years lost (DALYs) are one of the most usual health outcome metrics in environmental and health assessments and cost-effectiveness or cost/benefit analysis of interventions in those two areas. The methodology for DALYs' calculation has been evolving under the Global Burden of Disease Project.
Mariana Conte Grand   +1 more
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Estimation of Burden of Cystic Echinococcosis in Iran Using Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) in 2018 [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Public Health, 2021
Background: Human hydatidosis as a public concern has increased in a number of countries that have reduced control programs for the disease due to lack of resources or policies.
Fateme Parandin   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is the Use of DALYs and QALYs Ethically Permissible in Triage Decisions? COVID-19 and Equity Considerations from a Queer-Crip Perspective

open access: yesEthic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2023
This paper explores the symbolic and material implications of the use of DALYs and QALYs as priority or tie-breaker criteria in triage decisions. It aims to answer the question of their ethical permissibility based on the particular case of the COVID-19
Lautaro Leani, Ignacio Mastroleo
doaj   +1 more source

Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) based COVID-19 health impact assessment: a systematic review

open access: yes, 2023
Background The emergence of COVID-19 has resulted in health, socio-economic, and political crises. The overall health impact of this disease can be measured by disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) which is the sum of the life years lost due to ...
Islam, Md Shahidul   +3 more
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Table 4. Disability-Adjusted Life Years, Orinoquia (Colombia), 2017

open access: yes, 2022
 Disability-Adjusted Life Years, Orinoquia (Colombia), 2017 
Oscar Gutierrez (13257315)
core   +1 more source

Burden of autism spectrum disorders in North Africa and Middle East from 1990 to 2019: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

open access: yesBrain and Behavior, 2023
Introduction Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) encompass a range of neurodevelopmental disorders that affect the patient's communication and behavior.
Sepideh Ebrahimi Meimand   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

National Burden of Disease and Study in Iran [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Public Health, 2009
Background:  The objective of this study was to estimate the burden of disease and injury in Iran for the year 2003, using Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) at the national level.
N Jafari   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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