The Burden of Disease due to COVID-19 (BoCO-19): A study protocol for a secondary analysis of surveillance data in Southern and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an extensive impact on public health worldwide. However, in many countries burden of disease indicators for COVID-19 have not yet been calculated or used for monitoring. The present study protocol describes an approach developed in the project "The Burden of Disease due to COVID-19. Towards a harmonization of population health metrics for the surveillance of dynamic outbreaks" (BoCO-19). The process of data collection and aggregation across 14 different countries and sub-national regions in Southern and Eastern Europe and Central Asia is described, as well as the methodological approaches used.

Materials and methods

The study implemented in BoCO-19 is a secondary data analysis, using information from national surveillance systems as

SUBMITTER: Cawley C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10575506 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature