Ten-year projection of adult epilepsy burden in Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The World Health Organization's Intersectoral Global Action Plan on Epilepsy and Other Neurological Disorders calls for more epilepsy care centers, but a population-level estimate of epilepsy's projected burden to justify this investment from a societal perspective is lacking. We aimed to project the burden of epilepsy using dynamic life table modeling including number of deaths, years of life, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), productivity-adjusted life years (PALYs), health care costs, and number of people to be screened for surgical eligibility in the Australian adult population (aged 18-80 years) from 2024 to 2033.

Methods

A dynamic model was developed to capture incident and prevalent epilepsy in Australia, using five health states: not seizure-free non-dru

SUBMITTER: Geethadevi GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12371680 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature