Disability-Adjusted Life Year
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- Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY)
- 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. A new national tax on cigarettes in some country might save 12,000,000 DALYs. See also: Year of Life Lost (YLL), the World Health Organization DALY definition, and the Wikipedia DALY entry.
