Disability and Disability-Adjusted Life Years: Not the Same.

The article discusses the need for public health professionals to understand the relation of disability-adjusted life year (DALY) to contemporary understanding of compatibility. It relates that the widespread use of DALY is due to the fact that it provides a means of comparing health impact to a varied range of medical conditions. It states that another clarification related to the issue asserts that DALY is based only on experts' perception and not on the reported experience of disabled people.