Thanks for this. I wonder roughly how many hours of “disabling pain” or “hurtful pain” we estimate are diverted by saving 1 DALY. That would help me get a better sense of the tradeoff.
DALYs in global health use discount measures which lie between zero and one. Chronic back pain for example has a disability weight of 0.1, (for simplicity assumes the life of the average person with chronic back pain is 10% worse than someone with no health issues)
I could be missing something but I don’t think that we calculate DALY equivalents for excruciating pain for things like torture, which couldn’t just be calculated through discounting as they cause net negative living time. that’s why they have to be newly estimated for animals in this situation.
Thanks for this. I wonder roughly how many hours of “disabling pain” or “hurtful pain” we estimate are diverted by saving 1 DALY. That would help me get a better sense of the tradeoff.
Anyone have a better sense? @NickLaing ?
I’m afraid I can’t help here.
DALYs in global health use discount measures which lie between zero and one. Chronic back pain for example has a disability weight of 0.1, (for simplicity assumes the life of the average person with chronic back pain is 10% worse than someone with no health issues)
I could be missing something but I don’t think that we calculate DALY equivalents for excruciating pain for things like torture, which couldn’t just be calculated through discounting as they cause net negative living time. that’s why they have to be newly estimated for animals in this situation.