Hollinghurst, Sandra; Bevan, Gwyn; Bowie, Cam - In: Health Care Management Science 3 (2000) 1, pp. 9-21
The World Bank's Global Burden of Disease Study pioneered the use of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). In this paper we distinguish between the total and the “avoidable” burden of disease. We identify different ways of measuring DALYs: incidence‐based DALYs are appropriate where the...
