Hmm. I sort of thought “Quality Adjusted Life Year” effectively conveyed the thing I wanted (as opposed to Disability Adjusted Lifeyear, which definitely didn’t)
In any case, if people are getting confused on that point, WALY seems to be good as a term to hold in reserve to explain to people who think we’re all about health. (I think if we just popularized it as a new term, especially if we hadn’t worked out any way to actually measure things other than health in a robust fashion, it’d just end up with the same problems as QALY)
Hmm. I sort of thought “Quality Adjusted Life Year” effectively conveyed the thing I wanted (as opposed to Disability Adjusted Lifeyear, which definitely didn’t)
In any case, if people are getting confused on that point, WALY seems to be good as a term to hold in reserve to explain to people who think we’re all about health. (I think if we just popularized it as a new term, especially if we hadn’t worked out any way to actually measure things other than health in a robust fashion, it’d just end up with the same problems as QALY)
Agree—added a clarification at the bottom of the main post.