Measuring Health Burden: DALYs, WELLBYs, and the Value Judgements they Carry

In this post, I do a deep dive into common metrics for health burden to understand how they are generated, what value judgements are baked into them, and where they might fall short. If we are to use these metrics to decide how to allocate life saving resources, then it is important that we do not treat them as black boxes. 

Included in this post are motivations and criticisms for each metric, interactive components to illustrate how disability weights are generated, and discussion of how philosophical claims (such as accounts of the badness of death) affect the results of cost effectiveness analysis.