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

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

Journal 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
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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

Brain 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, Zahra Amiri, Parnian Shobeiri, Mohammad‐Reza Malekpour, Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam, Ali Ghanbari, Yeganeh Sharifnejad Tehrani, Zahra Shokri Varniab, Ashkan Pourabhari Langroudi, Hanye Sohrabi, Elmira Foroutan Mehr, Negar Rezaei, Maziar Moradi‐Lakeh, Ali H. Mokdad, Bagher Larijani   +14 more
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How do Japanese rate the severity of different diseases and injuries?—an assessment of disability weights for 231 health states by 37,318 Japanese respondents

Population Health Metrics, 2021
Background Disability weights (DWs) are weight factors that reflect the severity of health states for estimates of disability-adjusted life years. A new set of global DWs was published for the Global Burden of Diseases and Injuries (GBD) 2013 study ...
Shuhei Nomura, Yoshiko Yamamoto, Daisuke Yoneoka, Juanita A. Haagsma, Joshua A. Salomon, Peter Ueda, Rintaro Mori, Damian Santomauro, Theo Vos, Kenji Shibuya   +9 more
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National Burden of Disease and Study in Iran [PDF]

Iranian 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, F Abolhassani , M Naghavi , F Pourmalek , M Moradi Lakeh , H Kazemeini , MJ Kabir   +6 more
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Comparative analysis of disease burden in Sichuan Province in 2010 and 2020 based on disability-adjusted life years

Shanghai yufang yixue, 2023
ObjectiveTo analyze the disease burden in Sichuan Province in 2010 and 2020， and to provide reference for disease prevention and control.MethodsMonitoring data on causes of death in Sichuan Province in 2010 and 2020 were collected.
WEN Xiaoyan, GUO Huimin, JIANG Wenlan, CHEN Li   +3 more
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The direct disease burden of COVID-19 in Belgium in 2020 and 2021

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Burden of disease estimates have become important population health metrics over the past decade to measure losses in health. In Belgium, the disease burden caused by COVID-19 has not yet been estimated, although COVID-19 has emerged as one of
Brecht Devleesschauwer, Lander Willem, Jure Jurčević, Pierre Smith, Aline Scohy, Grant M. A. Wyper, Sara Monteiro Pires, Nina Van Goethem, Philippe Beutels, Nicolas Franco, Steven Abrams, Dieter Van Cauteren, Niko Speybroeck, Niel Hens, Robby De Pauw   +14 more
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The burden of tuberculosis disease in women, Colombia 2010-2018

Infectio, 2023
Objective: to estimate disability-adjusted life years in women attributable to tuberculosis in Colombia 2010-2018. Methods: A retrospective descriptive study was conducted.
Laura Plata-Casas
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What are Disability-Adjusted Life Years? [PDF]

European 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, B Devleesschauwer, P Dorny, L Duchateau, N Speybroeck   +4 more
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Time‐resolved dynamic disability adjusted life‐years estimation

Indoor Air, 2022
The quantification of how healthy the indoor air is, is a complex issue comprising of a large number of contaminants of various sources. The health implication of exposure to each of the contaminant deemed of importance can be expressed using Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs).
Klaas De Jonge, Jelle Laverge
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