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Burden of Disease Methods: a Guide to Calculate COVID-19 Disability-Adjusted Li...
Wyper, Grant; Assunção, Ricardo; Colzani, Edoardo; Grant, Ian; Haagsma, Juanita A; Lagerweij, Giske; Von der Lippe, Elena; McDonald, Scott A.Background: To date, most efforts to understand the comparative population health impact of COVID-19 have been made using mortality-based metrics. This has intensified discussion over methodological choices; in particular, how we value the life-years prematurely lost due to COVID-19. So far, the direct impact of COVID-19 on population health has varied across countries, with wide variation in incidence and infe...
Population vulnerability to COVID-19 in Europe: a burden of disease analysis
Wyper, Grant M.A.; Assunção, Ricardo; Cuschieri, Sarah; Devleesschauwer, Brecht; Fletcher, Eilidh; Haagsma, Juanita A.; Hilderink, Henk B.M.Background: Evidence has emerged showing that elderly people and those with pre-existing chronic health conditions may be at higher risk of developing severe health consequences from COVID-19. In Europe, this is of particular relevance with ageing populations living with non-communicable diseases, multi-morbidity and frailty. Published estimates of Years Lived with Disability (YLD) from the Global Burden of Dis...