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So, there are quite a few well known metrics for this in the public health world * Years of Life Lost (YLL) * Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY) * Quality A
by i_love_limes 5y ago
So, there are quite a few well known metrics for this in the public health world
* Years of Life Lost (YLL)
* Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY)
* Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY)
They are calculated in an interesting way that is open for arguing and interpretation, but it provides a good baseline for the ability to compare them.
As for the double counting, this is in fact a real problem, as a lot of health problems are interlinked, and having multiple health problems have a multiplying affect on health in general.
- verdverm 5y agoThis would have been a useful comment two years ago as well. Perhaps that it is not consistently used or applied is a problem?
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThere were plenty of comments like this 2yr ago. They were gray and at the bottom so few took notice and eventually people stopped making them.
- verdverm 5y agoCensorship is certainly fuzzy, maybe not so warm though it makes some feel that way?
- pjc50 5y agoIt seems to be a constant truism, and yes it's not consistently applied, (e.g war on drugs), but what are you suggesting here? Fairly sure by any reasonable measure of QUALY, COVID has been a bigger problem than any other public health crisis since AIDS.
- verdverm 5y agoEven mental health? Opioids? Malnourishment and starvation? Are we only concerned with first world countries or counting only viruses? Leadership has handled all quite poorly it seems