Preventive medicine and public health.
PubMedPublished 19 June 1991
William H. Foege
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A deliberate attempt to list the major public health developments of the past quarter century made it clear that one of them is undervalued or even unrecognized. The DALY concept has the potential to revolutionize the way in which we measure the impact of disease.
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