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 Neglected Tropical Diseases 

Epidemiology
However, the DALY has been criticized as a 'systematic undervaluation' of disease burden. King asserts that the DALY emphasizes the individual too much, while ignoring the effects of the ecology of the disease. In order for the measure to become more valid, it may have to take the context of poverty more into account. King also emphasizes that DALYs may not capture the non-linear effects of poverty on cost-utility analysis of disease control.

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The Socio-Demographic Index (SDI) and Healthy Life Expectancy (HALE) are other summary measures that can be used to take into account other factors.

HALE is a metric that weights years lived and health loss before death to provides a summary of population health.

SDI is a measurement that includes lag-distributed income per capita, average education, and fertility rate.

Lack of funding, resources, and attention can result in treatable and preventable diseases causing death.

Factors like political dynamics, poverty, and geographical conditions can make the delivery of NTD control programs difficult.

Intersectional collaboration of poverty reduction policies and neglected tropical diseases creates cross-sector approaches to simultaneously address these issues.

The distribution of neglected tropical disease disproportionally affects about one billion of the world's poorest populations causing mortality, disability, and morbidity.

Socioeconomic factors greatly influence the distribution of neglected tropical diseases, and not addressing these factors in models and measurements can lead to ineffective public health policy.