The evolution of the disability-adjusted life year (DALY)

Ariel Chen; Kathryn H. Jacobsen; Ashish A. Deshmukh; Scott B. Cantor

doi:10.1016/j.seps.2014.12.002

The evolution of the disability-adjusted life year (DALY)

Ariel Chen, Kathryn H. Jacobsen, Ashish A. Deshmukh, Scott B. Cantor

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Abstract

The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is a summary health measure that combines mortality and morbidity into a single measure as a way to estimate global disease burden and the effectiveness of health interventions. We review the methodological progression of the DALY, focusing on how the use of life expectancy estimates, disability weights, age weighting, and discounting has evolved since the first DALY reports were published in 1993. These changes have generally improved the metric but have made it difficult for researchers to interpret, compare, and conduct DALY studies.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	10-15
Number of pages	6
Journal	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
Volume	49
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2014.12.002
State	Published - Mar 1 2015

Keywords

Burden of disease
Cost-effectiveness analysis
DALY
Health metrics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Geography, Planning and Development
Economics and Econometrics
Strategy and Management
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Management Science and Operations Research

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