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Latest — 31 Jul 2025

New Research Brief Exposes Ableism in the DALY, an Influential Metric in Global Health and Health Economics

"Revisiting the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) as a Health Metric: Rigorous Science or Ableist Guesswork?" is available to read online and as a PDF preprint on SocArXiv.

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Revisiting the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) as a Health Metric: Rigorous Science or Ableist Guesswork?

This research brief presents a methodological critique of the disability-adjusted life year (DALY), questioning the validity of this metric and arguing that it functions to uphold structural ableism in public health and healthcare.
31 Jul 2025 16 min read

Volume 1: DALYs, QALYs, Crip Time, and Disabled People in Health Leadership

Research themes and table of contents for Volume 1 of Ableism & Healthcare Now
26 Jul 2025 1 min read

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