title: Preventive medicine and public health.
abstract: A deliberate attempt to list the major public health developments of the past quarter century made it clear that one of them is undervalued or even unrecognized. The DALY concept has the potential to revolutionize the way in which we measure the impact of disease.
authors.affiliation: Task Force for Child Survival and Development, Atlanta, Ga.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Foege
mesh_terms: D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D011634:Public Health / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States