TY - JOUR
AU - Wyper, Grant M.A.
AU - Assunção, Ricardo
AU - Colzani, Edoardo
AU - Grant, Ian
AU - Haagsma, Juanita A.
AU - Lagerweij, Giske
AU - Von der Lippe, Elena
AU - McDonald, Scott A.
AU - Pires, Sara M.
AU - Porst, Michael
AU - Speybroeck, Niko
AU - Devleesschauwer, Brecht
PY - 2021
DA - March
TI - Burden of Disease Methods: A Guide to Calculate COVID-19 Disability-Adjusted Life Years
JO - International Journal of Public Health
VL - 66
DO - https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2021.619011
AB - To date, most efforts to understand the comparative population health impact of COVID-19 have been made using mortality-based metrics. This has intensified discussion over methodological choices; in particular, how we value the life-years prematurely lost due to COVID-19. So far, the direct impact of COVID-19 on population health has varied across countries, with wide variation in incidence and infection fatality rates. Understanding and quantifying the combined impact of morbidity and mortality is a key step to standardizing comparisons across countries, and to quantify the within-country impact of COVID-19 relative to other causes of disease and injury, sub-national areas or demographics. This can be achieved by estimating summary measures of population health like disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). The estimation of DALYs is useful to provide comprehensive and comparative public health intelligence to inform decision-making for the management of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly around the extent of direct and indirect consequences. At present, the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study has not integrated COVID-19. Some studies have already estimated DALYs due to COVID-19. The first published assessment was performed for Korea, up until the end of April 2020. An assessment, using a similar time frame, followed for Italy. To date, published studies have only included one COVID-19 related health state, or disability weights were country-specific
PB - Frontiers Media
UR - https://publichealthscotland.scot/id/50468
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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