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Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Article title

 * Disability-adjusted life year

Lead section Evaluation

 * The article's lead section has a direct and concise definition of the the main subject i.e Disability-adjusted life year. However the section fails to briefly discuss the main sections of the article especially its assessment and application. Additionally, the lead section does not expound on the developers of the DALY system and the main purpose behind its creation.

Content Evaluation

 * The article introduces new concepts in the content section that may otherwise be not known to the reader. A notable example is the comparison of DALY to HALY, and QALY, two new Concepts that lack both definitions and explanations.
 * Content

Sources and References Evaluation

 * The article lacks numerous citations for all the claims that it puts forward. For instance, on the "Age weighting" subsection, the article holds that there are "two components if differential accounting of time: age-weighting and time -discounting." This statement is not supported by any source provided and also lacks a direct citation.

Relevant Sources

 * https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czl018
 * https://www.bmj.com/content/320/7246/1398
 * https://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/42439/9241545518.pdf%3Fsequence%3D1%23page%3D691&hl=en&sa=T&oi=gsb-gga&ct=res&cd=2&d=3501815208155973506&ei=HesqY9CLKtaWy9YPxaGk2AU&scisig=AAGBfm2fg-AVbP99_L8_rUCldJvNMEDXeA

Article title

 * Quality-adjusted life year

Lead Section Evaluation
The Lead section lacks a summary of the history of QALY and its Development.

Content Evaluation

 * Most of the information in the article are directly relevant to the subject of the article. It is evident that, based on the "debate" section, there are key Merits and limitation of QALY. Therefore, this shows that there are key factors that are under represented in the article concerning the main subject.
 * Additionally the "History" section is underrepresented in the article with limited information regarding its development.\

Sources and Reference Evaluation

 * Some of the facts in the article are not backed by reliable secondary sources. For instance the statement "The QALY is a measure of the value of health outcomes to the people who experience them. It combines two different benefits of treatment—length of life and quality of life—into a single number that can be compared across different types of treatments." lacks a clear citation to where the content was sourced

Relevant Sources

 * https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2004-2127
 * https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2010.10.039
 * https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.07.004

Article title

 * Infant Mortality

Lead Section Evaluation

 * The lead section provides a detailed definition of the main subject with proper citations. It also offers summaries to the main sections that make up the body of the article e.g the cause of infant morality,

Content Evaluation.

 * The content section of the article is well cited and contains detailed information about the subject. However the classifications under "causes" are inconsistent and in some cases contradictory and repetitive. For instance both "Malnutrition" and "Adverse malnutrition" are both presented are two different causes.
 * Furthermore, under the "Classification" subsection, it is difficult to ascertain which causes fall within which classification or whether there are shared cause in each classification. This lack of distinct classification lets the reader make assumption and conclusions for themselves.
 * The risk factors for Infant mobility is under represented

Relevant Sources

 * https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-019-2323-6
 * https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph10062296