DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR. A measurement unit to quantify burden of disease and disability in population. It is the sum of Years of Life Lost and Years Lived with Disability. One DALY is equivalent to one year of healthy life lost.
a complex weighting of age where years in the prime of life are deemed to be worth more than years of childhood or old age, but the further away any saved life years are, the less weight they carry
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total amount of healthy life lost, whether from premature mortality or from temporary or permanent disability.
(disability-adjusted life year): A method of calculating the global or world-wide health impact of a disease or the global disease burden (GDB) in terms of the reported or estimated cases of premature death, disability and days of infirmity due to illness from a specific disease or condition. (see also global disease burde
Disability-Adjusted Life Year — A DALY is a unit of measurement that's widely-used when trying to measure health outcomes. DALYs are measured by taking into account the years of life gained and the years that are lived with some disability, with a weighting for the severity of the disability. For example, if a 35-year-old smoker quits smoking, they might gain 8 DALYs. If a new national tax on cigarettes in some country might save 12,000,000 DALYs. See also, YLL.
Disability Adjusted Life Years. The DALY extends the concept of potential years of life lost due to premature death to include years of "healthy" life lost by virtue of being in states of ill-health. DALYs for a disease or risk factor are calculated as the annual sum of the years of life lost due to premature mortality in the population and the "years lived with disability" for incident cases of the health condition.
Disability Adjusted Life Year. A DALY is a way of grouping the impact of a disease (its burden) incorporating loss of quality of life, restrictions in fulfilling a traditional social/economic role as well as loss of life years. A DALY is therefore a 'common currency' measuring disease burden, rather than simply death.
Daly is a small lunar impact crater that is located in the eastern part of the Moon, to the northwest of the Apollonius crater. This formation is relatively circular, with a slight inward bulge along the northern rim. The inner wall is wider in the southern half than in the north.
