Calculating disability-adjusted life years to quantify ...

HINTS AND KINKSC alculating disability - adjusted life years to quantify burdenof diseaseBrecht Devleesschauwer Arie H. Havelaar Charline Maertens de Noordhout Juanita A. Haagsma Nicolas Praet Pierre Dorny Luc Duchateau Paul R. Torgerson Herman Van Oyen Niko SpeybroeckReceived: 23 February 2013 / Revised: 12 February 2014 / Accepted: 3 April 2014 Swiss School of Public Health 2014 IntroductionThe disability - adjusted life year or DALY is a summarymeasure of public health widely used to quantify burden ofdisease. In the DALY philosophy, every person is bornwith a certain number of life years potentially lived inoptimal health.

a new model life table was developed, with a life expectancy at birth of 86 for both males and females (available as a supplement in Murray et al. 2013b). Alternatively, local life tables may be used instead of standard life tables. Continuing the aforementioned example, the life expectancy of 60-year-old females are 25 years in the

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