Estimating the broader social and economic impacts of improved access to private healthcare can help inform investor decision-making in the health sector. One way to do so is by translating a metric commonly used in the global health space to the private sector: Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). 

This DEBrief summarizes how IDB Invest used the DALY metric to estimate and monetize the potential impact of its investment in the Brazilian HealthTech company dr.consulta, building on analysis carried out by the IDB’s Social Protection and Health Division. 

Our findings show that by expanding access to private healthcare services through dr.consulta, society could gain thousands of healthy life years and millions of dollars in economic well-being.