Abstract
The dominant metric for setting public health priorities, the disability-adjusted life year (DALY), is unsuited to parasitic infections. In particular, the current DALY framework fails to acknowledge the non-linear pathologies of infection, the community level dynamics of epidemiology and the co-morbidities of polyparasitism. Parasitologists must urgently provide a better way of accounting for the true costs of parasitic disease.
Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
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Pages (from-to) | 393 - 395 |
Journal | Trends in Parasitology |
Volume | 25 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 01 Dec 2009 |