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What is DALY

Chapter 12
Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Impacts of Population Aging
An acronym for Disability-Adjusted Life Year. It is an indicator that intends to measure the potential years of life that are lost as a result of premature death, or that will be lived with a deteriorated state of health, i.e., with a lower quality of life. Thus, 1 DALY represents 1 lost year of healthy life. By definition, a DALY results from the sum of two indicators: YLL and YLD (defined below). See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability-adjusted_life_year ; accessed on February 02, 2021.
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On the Socio-Economic Impacts of the Difference Between Healthy and Sick Aging
António Bento Caleiro (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7327-3.ch012
Abstract
Population aging is a phenomenon that has characterized most countries in the world for many years now. Also, for some time now, the literature has shown some social and economic impacts of this phenomenon. This chapter intends to address an impact of a social nature, namely gender inequality, and an impact of an economic nature, namely the global burden of diseases, to which the literature on population aging has not yet given the necessary attention. For these impacts it is important to distinguish healthy aging from unhealthy aging. In fact, healthy aging not only reduces the global burden of disease but also contributes to a reduction in gender inequalities with regard to quality-adjusted years of life.
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