The DALY Show, Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY)

James G. Kahn MD, MPH
Professor of Health Policy, Epidemiology,
and Global Health at UCSF

This animated video provides a thorough, technically informative, understandable, and fun introduction to DALYs and how they are used to measure the burden of disease.

[sfbayglobalhealthresearch]

Amazing! Dr Kahn actually did the voice-over, sounds like a pro! Clear and engaging description. :)

[snsh]

Crystal clear understanding of the concept and more importantly, its implementations.  
THANK YOU SO MUCH.

[compuchemgeek]

Thanks, I have been looking for a clear explanation of DALYs, glad I found this video

[masoudrafee]

Exclusive and exhillerating. the very thing I needed in simple terms and succinct form. thanks a million

[erickgryzbowski]

An awesome explanation wing practices carried complex concepts simply and with everyday terms. Thank you very much

[lesliethompson]

Very helpful for my grad school health demography class. Great explanation. Thanks!

[ks]

This is very well done! Thank you for an engaging and concise overview. However, Neglected Zoonotic Diseases competing against funding for the big 3 (AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria) which makes it challenging to address research and development in this area. What are some ways to acquire funding for R&D to enhance interventions and improve health outcomes for NZDs if DALYs are the main criterion?

[Nadylisa]

This was so well explained. Thank you Dr Kahn.

[MarcusWhybrow]

Thanks. Was reading Bjorn Lomborg's "How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place" and I'd never heard of a DALY before.

[elfadil]

At minute 6:07 what types of graphs are those? And how do you read them?

[andrewmcguire]

I heard a rumor that Jon Stewart was lined up to voice-over the follow-up video.

[Lalorama]

I'm curious about the discount rate. How does it lead to treatment being more valuable than prevention? Seems counter intuitive. Prevention would avoid future growing costs of treatment, so shouldn't it be valued more highly?

[GartenKinder]

How do they come up with a DALY figure for a disease that affects people of any age equally, so their DALY score just depends on how old they are when they get the disease?

[birrymays]

Very informative and helpful. Thank you.

[leonardleader]

What software did you use to generate this video. I would be very keen to know