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92 Pages·2001·1.8 MB·English
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by Daniel D Reidpath| 2001| 92 pages| 1.8| English

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The Disability Adjusted Life Year DALY is a measure of population healththat was developed as part of a World Bank initiated study to inform health strategydevelopment priority setting resource allocation and research and to measure theglobal burden of disease The innovative feature of the DALY was the combination ofinformation on morbidity and mortality within a single index Since its development in1992 the rate at which it has been adopted by governments multilateral agencies andresearchers has been staggering The enthusiasm with which the measure has beentaken up perhaps reflects a desire on the part of health policy makers to embrace an evidence based approach to health policy Although the DALY has been heavily criticised in some quarters it hassurvived This report details the findings of an empirical investigation of some of thetechnical and social assumptions on which the DALY is based The specific aim was toexamine the justification behind the use of a single global severity weight for eachhealth condition without regard to contextual factors The objectives of the study wereto examine the notion that the burden of a disease is broadly similar without regard tocountry environment gender or socioeconomic status and to develop detaileddescriptions of the experiences of the burden of disease as they related to thesecontextual factors

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Author:Daniel D Reidpath
Publication Year:2001
Pages:92
Language:English
File Size:1.8
Format:PDF
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