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The increasing significance of disease severity in a burden of disease framework
the ability to differentiate changes in severity across time and location. This raises uncertainties in interpreting these findings without triangulation with other relevant data sources. Our commentary ...
Burden of disease of COVID-19: Strengthening the collaboration for national studies
enabler to assessing the impact of COVID-19 across countries and within countries relative to other diseases, regions, or demographics. Differences in methods, data sources, and definitions of mortality due ...
Estimating risk factor attributable burden – challenges and potential solutions when using the comparative risk assessment methodology
as these concepts are sometimes referred to synonymously but have distinctly different applications. Results. CRA s are very data demanding. One key element is the exposure-response relationship ...
Burden of disease of dietary exposure to four chemical contaminants in Denmark, 2019
(Pb), cadmium (Cd), methylmercury (MeHg), and inorganic arsenic (i-As). We collected national food consumption and chemical food monitoring data from Danish databases, dose-response and severity data from ...
Reflections on key methodological decisions in national burden of disease assessments
become the key metric for quantifying burden of disease (BoD). BoD methodology is, however, complex and highly data demanding, requiring a substantial capacity to apply, which has led to major disparities ...
Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis
2015 data that was country-corrected for population coverage. We multiplied the number of bloodstream infections (BSI s) by a conversion factor derived from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and ...