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Burden of Disease Methods: a Guide to Calculate COVID-19 Disability-Adjusted Life Years

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dc.contributor.authorWyper, Grant
dc.contributor.authorAssunção, Ricardo
dc.contributor.authorColzani, Edoardo
dc.contributor.authorGrant, Ian
dc.contributor.authorHaagsma, Juanita A
dc.contributor.authorLagerweij, Giske
dc.contributor.authorVon der Lippe, Elena
dc.contributor.authorMcDonald, Scott A.
dc.contributor.authorPires, Sara
dc.contributor.authorPorst, Michael
dc.contributor.authorSpeybroeck, Niko
dc.contributor.authorDevleesschauwer, Brecht
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-03T14:32:49Z
dc.date.available2022-07-03T14:32:49Z
dc.date.issued2021-03-05
dc.description.abstractBackground: 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. Aim: Our paper provides a step-by-step guide to define COVID-19 as a cause of disease burden, which can be used to calculate DALYs. Additionally, we suggest pragmatic data inputs, reflecting that availability and quality of data inputs will vary by country. This paper builds on previous DALY calculation guides. As our paper provides suggestions for different solutions, we recommend that users should be clear about their methodological choices to aid comparisons and knowledge translation.pt_PT
dc.description.sponsorshipThis publication is based upon work from COST Action CA18218 (European Burden of disease Network—burden-eu.net), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology—www.cost.eu).pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.citationInt J Public Health. 2021 Mar 5;66:619011. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2021.619011. eCollection 2021pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/ijph.2021.619011pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn1661-8556
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/8042
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherInternational Journal of Public Health | Published by Frontierspt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10.3389/ijph.2021.619011/fullpt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectCOVID-19pt_PT
dc.subjectDisability-adjusted Life Yearpt_PT
dc.subjectYears Lived with Disabilitypt_PT
dc.subjectYears of Life Lostpt_PT
dc.subjectCoronaviruspt_PT
dc.subjectEuropean Burden of Disease Networkpt_PT
dc.subjectSegurança Alimentarpt_PT
dc.subjectToxicologia dos Alimentospt_PT
dc.subjectComposição dos Alimentospt_PT
dc.subjectAvaliação do Riscopt_PT
dc.titleBurden of Disease Methods: a Guide to Calculate COVID-19 Disability-Adjusted Life Yearspt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.startPage619011pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleInternational Journal of Public Healthpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume66pt_PT
rcaap.embargofctAcesso de acordo com política editorial da revista.pt_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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