THE CRITIQUE OF DALYS - A COUNTER-REPLY

Authors
SAYERS BM FLIEDNER TM
Citation
Bm. Sayers et Tm. Fliedner, THE CRITIQUE OF DALYS - A COUNTER-REPLY, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 75(4), 1997, pp. 383-384
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Journal title
Bulletin of the World Health Organization → ACNP
ISSN journal
00429686
Volume
75
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
383 - 384
Database
ISI
SICI code
0042-9686(1997)75:4<383:TCOD-A>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
The DALY Review Group of the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) believes that, unless they are constructed purely as an intell ectual exercise, indicators should have a function - ultimately to gui de decision-making about resource allocation. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) obscure too much and in ifs present stage of developmen t the DALY approach does not solve the problem of prioritization and o f resource allocation and may yet turn out to have been a side-track.