Doesn’t severe depression have a DALY weight? Of course one could also be miserable for all sorts of reasons without actually being depressed in a medical sense, and DALYs wouldn’t account for this. But that’s just one of the many ways in which DALYs optimize for practicality, compared to QALYs.
Doesn’t severe depression have a DALY weight? Of course one could also be miserable for all sorts of reasons without actually being depressed in a medical sense, and DALYs wouldn’t account for this. But that’s just one of the many ways in which DALYs optimize for practicality, compared to QALYs.