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EDITORIAL: Data s importance in extending lives

While the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world in 2020, Taiwanese were adding more healthy years to their lives, Ministry of Health and Welfare data revealed last week. Disability-adjusted life years (DALY) measure the amount of time lost to severe illness, disability or premature death. As with all good metrics, this one is able to plainly spell out an issue integral to our lived experience, helping society make decisions that could get people through the toughest times in their lives. Hiding behind this dispassionate acronym are years of struggle, costly treatment and impossible decisions about how to receive care and when

《TAIPEI TIMES》 Taiwanese acquire five healthy months - 焦點

DISEASE REDUCTION: Disappearance of the flu, colds and pneumonia during the pandemic’s first year seemed to add months of quality living to lifespans of TaiwaneseBy Wu Liang-yi and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer

Taiwanese acquire five healthy months

Taiwanese on average added more than five healthy months to their lives during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the largest gain in a decade due in part to a reduction in other communicable diseases, Ministry of Health and Welfare data showed. The trend was reflected in the nation’s disability-adjusted life years (DALY), which measures the time a person spends in poor health or with a disability, or who dies before reaching the average life expectancy for their population. It is typically used to measure the overall disease burden on a population, with a larger number indicating more years lost to

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