 | World Health Organization - 2001 - 204 pages
...information on the impact of premature death and of disability and other nonfatal health outcomes. One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of healthy'...burden of disease as a measurement of the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives into old age free of disease and... | |
 | World Health Organization - 2002 - 278 pages
...in 2001. DALYs along with healthy life expectancy are summary measures of population health.13- 14 One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of "healthy"...ideal situation where everyone in the population lives to old age in full health. DALYs for a disease or health condition are calculated as the sum of the... | |
 | R. Beaglehole, World Health Organization - 2003 - 216 pages
...combine years of life lost (YLLs) through premature death with years lived with disability (YLDs) (1). One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of "healthy" life and the measured disease burden is the gap between a population's health status and that of a normative global... | |
 | Stephen Sutton, Stephen R. Sutton, Andrew Baum, Marie Johnston - 2004 - 448 pages
...information on the impact of premature death and of disability and other non-fatal health outcomes. One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of "healthy"...burden of disease as a measurement of the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives into old age free of disease and... | |
 | Penny Webb, Chris Bain, Sandi Pirozzo - 2005 - 370 pages
...that productive years lost in mid-life are more important than years lost at very young or old ages.) One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of healthy life. Thus, if a person lives with a moderate disability for 10 years, this might equate to five DALYs or... | |
 | Dan Chisholm, Shekhar Saxena, Mark Van Ommeren - 2006 - 59 pages
...1996). The main summary measure used in the GBD study was the Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY). One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of 'healthy'...burden of disease as a measurement of the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives into old age free of disease and... | |
 | World Health Organization - 2006 - 233 pages
...to be lived in full health) lost as a result of the incidence of specific diseases and injuries (2). One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of healthy life and the burden of disease as a measure of the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives into old... | |
 | Unesco, World Water Assessment Programme (United Nations) - 2006 - 600 pages
...measure of population health. One DALY represents a lost year of healthy life and is used to estimate the gap between the current health of a population and an ideal situation where everyone in that population would live into old age in full health. Source: WHO, 20(Ma. diarrhoea is distributed... | |
 | United Nations WWAP, Unesco, World Water Assessment Programme (United Nations) - 2006 - 634 pages
...measure of population health. One DALY represents a lost year of healthy life and is used to estimate the gap between the current health of a population and an ideal situation where everyone in that population would live into old age in full health. Source: WHO. 20<Ma. 3. Onchocerciasis is a... | |
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One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of 'healthy' life and the burden of disease as a measurement of the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives into old age free of disease and disability". 
