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The value of DALY life
— problems with ethics and validity of disability adjusted life years | | Author(s) | Trude Arnesen, Erik Nord |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 319, no 7222, 27 November 1999 |
| Pages | pp 1423-1425 |
| Keywords | Physical disabilities ; Measurement ; Ill health ; Death ; Social ethics. |
| Annotation | DALYs (disability adjusted life years) have been launched by the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO) as a combined measure of morbidity and mortality. The DALY approach currently in use presupposes that life years of disabled people are worth less than life years of those without disabilities. The method assumes that disabled people are less entitled to scarce health resources for interventions that would extend their lives. These assumptions are in contrast with WHO's basic principles. DALYs' use of disability weightings in the valuation of gained life years should be abandoned. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991206203 A |
| Classmark | BN: 3R: CH: CW: TQ* |
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