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Burden of disease attributable to risk factors in European countries: A scoping literature review
their impact on burden estimates, we conducted a scoping literature review to: (1) map the BoD assessments including risk factors performed across Europe; and (2) identify the methodological choices in ...
The health and economic burden of musculoskeletal disorders in Belgium from 2013 to 2018
terms of Years Lived with Disability. The current study aims to analyze the health and economic impact of these MSK disorders in Belgium, providing a summary of morbidity and mortality outcomes from 2013 ...
EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders
Environmental burden of disease (EBD) studies try to estimate the impact of environmental stressors in terms of mortality or morbidity on a population level. Although environmental risks have been studied in ...
The increasing significance of disease severity in a burden of disease framework
aims to bring this issue to the forefront for users of burden of disease estimates, as its impact is often easily overlooked as part of the fundamental process of generating DALY estimates. Moreover, the ...
Estimating Years of Life Lost due to COVID-19 over the first two years of the pandemic in Cyprus: comparisons across areas, age, and sex
extent of the COVID-19 mortality burden is important to inform policy-making decisions. To gain greater insights into the population health impact of COVID-19 mortality, Years of Life Lost (YLL) can be ...
Methodological choices in brucellosis burden of disease assessments: A systematic review
years (DALY s) to generate a comprehensive comparison of the population health impact of these conditions. DALY s calculations, however, entail a number of methodological choices and assumptions, with ...
Burden of non-communicable disease studies in Europe: a systematic review of data sources and methodological choices
were systematically searched in international electronic literature databases and in grey literature. We included all BoD studies that used the DALY metric to quantify the health impact of one or more ...
Burden of disease of COVID-19: Strengthening the collaboration for national studies
Keywords: capacity building Coronavirus COVID-19 DALY Disability-adjusted life year European burden of disease network Abstract: Objectives: Quantifying the combined impact of morbidity and mortality is a key ...
Estimating the direct Disability-Adjusted Life Years associated with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) in the Republic of Ireland: The first full year
Journal of Public Health, Volume 67 (2022) Keywords: burden of disease COVID-19 DALY Ireland pandemic Abstract: Objectives: Burden of Disease frameworks facilitate estimation of the health impact of ...
Years of life lost methods must remain fully equitable and accountable
approaches being applied to estimate the years of life lost to premature mortality (YLL), which Ferenci discusses in detail. Due to the overwhelming impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, YLL methods have become ...