HLTH1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Baud, Disability-Adjusted Life Year, Time Point
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Broadly speaking, the data from the gbd study can be used to: Assess and compare the performances of different regions in terms of health outcomes. Assist in providing one form of evidence on which to base resource allocation. Enable development and implementation of public health interventions that are relevant and proportional to the health burden. Illness is different: it"s something someone can feel, but may not be caused by any of these, or may not have a biological basis. Qaly - positive measure - how many good years. Daly - negative measure - how many years lost. These are measure on timelines from 0 to 1, but opposing directions. For this, there are "disability weight" values - how much disability effects life. Years lived with disability (yld) is the years of life lived with disability due to disease or injury. The term disability" is used to acknowledge that disease decreases the quality of life.
