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Disability adjusted life year (DALY)

[SOURCE: Public Health England (2017) Health Economics Evidence Resource.  Public Health England. (The website can be accessed here)]

A measure for the overall disease burden. It is designed to quantify the impact of premature death and disability on a population by combining them into a single, comparable measure.

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