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Measuring disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to COVID-19 in Scotland, 2020
contextualise its population impact relative to other causes of disease and injury. Methods National deaths and daily case data were used. Deaths were based on underlying and contributory causes recorded on death ...
Estimating risk factor attributable burden – challenges and potential solutions when using the comparative risk assessment methodology
fractions (PAF s) quantifying the proportion of disease burden attributable to exposure. Among many available formulae for PAF s, it is important to use the one that allows consistency between definitions, ...
QALY losses for chronic diseases and its social distribution in the general population: results from the Belgian Health Interview Survey
disease on mortality and morbidity into a single index. This study aims to estimate the burden of chronic diseases in terms of QALY losses and to model its social distribution for the general population. ...
Human health and economic impact of neurocysticercosis in Uganda
of headache, eventually leading to nearly 3000 deaths. Overall, it was estimated that NCC led to more than 170,000 DALY s (5.2 per 1000 person years; 16 per incident case) and an economic loss of more ...
Estimating the direct Covid-19 disability-adjusted life years impact on the Malta population for the first full year
allowing for comprehensive comparisons of the population. The aim was to estimate the DALY s due to Covid-19 in Malta (March 2020–21) and investigate its impact in relation to other causes of disease at ...
Recommendations to plan a national burden of disease study
Union-Health Information System (EU- HIS). It has done so by raising awareness of the concept, the methods used to calculate estimates and their potential implications and uses in policymaking. The BoD approach ...
Risk factors and their contribution to population health in the European Union (EU-28) countries in 2007 and 2017
outcomes in Europe. It is important to identify the disease burden that is attributable to risk factors and, therefore, amenable to interventions. This paper reports the burden attributable to risk factors, ...
Global Burden of Animal Diseases: A novel approach to understanding and managing disease in livestock and aquaculture
and from which to measure the impact of interventions. This paper is part of a process of scientific enquiry in which problems are identified and solutions sought in an inclusive way. It poses the broad ...
The burden of legionnaires' disease in Belgium, 2013 to 2017.
in Belgium between 2013 and 2017 and to estimate its true burden in the Belgian population in 2017, the most recent year for which the necessary data were available. Methods: Belgian hospital discharge ...
The burden of legionnaires’ disease in Belgium, 2013 to 2017
confirmed and reported to public health authorities. The aim of this study was to present indicators for the impact of LD in Belgium between 2013 and 2017 and to estimate its true burden in the Belgian ...