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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
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Fields of Study > epidemiology > burden of disease > health-adjusted life year > disability-adjusted life year
Preferred Term:

disability-adjusted life year

Definition:
A unit of health care status that adjusts age-specific life expectancy by the loss of health and years of life due to disability from disease or injury. DALYs are often used to measure the global burden of disease.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Full
Broader Concept:
health-adjusted life year
Related Concepts:
Entry Terms:
  • years lost to disability
  • YLD (years lost due to disability)
  • DALY (disability-adjusted life year)
  • years lived with disability
  • years of life lost
  • years lost due to disability
  • YLL (years of life lost)
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/137623
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RDF/XMLCreated 2010-09-24, last modified 2019-03-01