2018-04-19
Impact of infectious diseases on population health using incidence-based disability-adjusted life years (DALYs)
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Results from the burden of communicable diseases in Europe study, European Union and European economic countries, 2009 to 2013
Eurosurveillance , Volume 23 - Issue 16
Background and aims: The Burden of Communicable Diseases in Europe (BCoDE) study aimed to calculate disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 31 selected diseases in the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA). Methods: DALYs were estimated using an incidence-based and pathogen-based approach. Incidence was estimated through assessment of data availability and quality, and a correction was applied for under-estimation. Calculation of DALYs was performed with the BCoDE software toolkit without applying time discounting and age-weighting. Results: We estimated that one in 14 inhabitants experienced an infectious disease episode for a total burden of 1.38 million DALYs (95% uncertainty interval (UI): 1.25-1.5) between 2009 and 2013; 76% of which was related to the acute phase of the infection and its short-term complications. Influenza had the highest burden (30% of the total burden), followed by tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection/AIDS and invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). Men had the highest burden measured in DALYs (60% of the total), adults 65 years of age and over had 24% and children less than 5 years of age had 11%. Age groupspecific burden showed that infants (less than 1 year of age) and elderly people (80 years of age and over) experienced the highest burden. Conclusions: These results provide baseline estimates for evaluating infectious disease prevention and control strategies. The study promotes an evidence-based approach to describing population health and assessing surveillance data availability and quality, and provides information for the planning and prioritisation of limited resources in infectious disease prevention and control.
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doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.16.17-00454, hdl.handle.net/1765/106081 | |
Eurosurveillance | |
Organisation | Department of Public Health |
Cassini, A., Colzani, E. (Edoardo), Pini, A. (Alessandro), Mangen, M. J. J., Plass, D. (Dietrich), McDonald, S., … Kretzschmar, M. (2018). Impact of infectious diseases on population health using incidence-based disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). Eurosurveillance, 23(16). doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.16.17-00454 |