Estimates of healthcare utilisation and deaths from waterborne pathogen exposure in Ontario, Canada.

ABSTRACT: Burden of disease analyses can quantify the relative impact of different exposures on population health outcomes. Gastroenteritis where the causative pathogen was not determined and respiratory illness resulting from exposure to opportunistic pathogens transmitted by water aerosols have not always been considered in waterborne burden of disease estimates. We estimated the disease burden attributable to nine enteric pathogens, unspecified pathogens leading to gastroenteritis, and three opportunistic pathogens leading primarily to respiratory illness, in Ontario, Canada (population ~14 million). Employing a burden of disease framework, we attributed a fraction of annual (year 2016) emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalisations and deaths to waterborne transmission. Attributable fraction

SUBMITTER: Greco SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7118719 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature