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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
卷 67, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2022.1604699
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COVID-19; pandemic; burden of disease; Ireland; DALY
COVID-19 has caused a significant burden of disease in the Republic of Ireland, resulting in a large number of confirmed cases and deaths. The DALY calculated for COVID-19 in this study was 51,622.8, with Years of Life Lost (YLL) contributing to a majority of the DALYs.
Objectives: Burden of Disease frameworks facilitate estimation of the health impact of diseases to be translated into a single measure, such as the Disability-Adjusted-Life-Year (DALY).Methods: DALYs were calculated as the sum of Years of Life Lost (YLL) and Years Lived with Disability (YLD) directly associated with COVID-19 in the Republic of Ireland (RoI) from 01 March 2020, to 28 February 2021. Life expectancy is based on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study life tables for 2019.Results: There were 220,273 confirmed cases with a total of 4,500 deaths as a direct result of COVID-19. DALYs were estimated to be 51,622.8 (95% Uncertainty Intervals [UI] 50,721.7, 52,435.8). Overall, YLL contributed to 98.5% of the DALYs. Of total symptomatic cases, 6.5% required hospitalisation and of those hospitalised 10.8% required intensive care unit treatment. COVID-19 was likely to be the second highest cause of death over our study's duration.Conclusion: Estimating the burden of a disease at national level is useful for comparing its impact with other diseases in the population and across populations. This work sets out to standardise a COVID-19 BoD methodology framework for the RoI and comparable nations in the EU.
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