Speaker：Iwao Hirose [McGill University]

Date：July 16, 2024／15:00‐16:40 (JST)

Location：Room 549 on the 5th floor of Akamon General Research Bldg.
　　　　　http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_08_02_j.html

Language：Japanese

Target : Open to the public

Abstract：One of the theoretical issues in Global Burden of Disease (GBD) studies is concerned with whether disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) should be measured by incidence or prevalence. My main claim is that DALYs can be measured by neither because the disvalue of years of life lost (YLL) cannot be attributed to a particular time. I will argue for this claim by elucidating the nature of comparativism, the philosophical theory underlying YLL.