Disability-adjusted life year
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disability-adjusted-life-year-162-5673412
title:
Disability-adjusted life year
text:
Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) are a measure of overall disease burden, expressed as the number of years lost due to ill-health, disability, or early death. It was developed in the 1990s as a way of comparing the overall health and life expectancy of different countries. DALYs have become more common in the field of public health and health impact assessment (HIA). They include not only the potential years of life lost due to premature death but also equivalent years of 'healthy' life lo
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encyclopedia
description:
Measure of disease burden
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability-adjusted_life_year
date created:
2006-02-20T23:33:50Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T18:47:44Z
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