DALY is the disability-adjusted life years. Part of the larger scale Qaly - Quality-adjusted life years. A way of measuring the impact a certain disease or disability has on a person's life. Life years are adjusted based on the percentage of health a person has. Example: a person's life expectancy is 84. They live in good health for 70 years, then have a stroke and function at 50% for 5 more years before they die at age 75. Qaly is 70 + 5(0.50) = 72.5. Therefore that person lost 11.5 years of life or PYLL - potential years of life lost