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Welfare-Adjusted Life Years (WALY): A novel metric of animal welfare that combines the impacts of impaired welfare and abbreviated lifespan

Currently, separate measures are used to estimate the impact of animal diseases on mortality and animal welfare. This article introduces a novel metric, the Welfare-Adjusted Life Year (WALY), to estimate disease impact by combining welfare compromise and premature death components. Adapting the Disa...

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Autores principales: Teng, Kendy Tzu-Yun, Devleesschauwer, Brecht, Maertens De Noordhout, Charline, Bennett, Peter, McGreevy, Paul D., Chiu, Po-Yu, Toribio, Jenny-Ann L. M. L., Dhand, Navneet K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6135394/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30208045
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202580