COVID-19: years of life lost (YLL) and saved (YLS) as an expression of the role of vaccination.

ABSTRACT: When evaluating vaccine efficacy, the conventional measures include reduction of risk of hospitalization and death. The number of patients dying with or without vaccination is often in the public spotlight. However, when evaluating public health interventions or the burden of disease, it is more illustrative to use mortality metrics taking into account also prematurity of the deaths, such as years of life lost (YLL) or years of life saved (YLS) thanks to the vaccination. We develop this approach for evaluation of the difference in YLL and YLS between COVID-19 victims with or without completed vaccination in the autumn pandemic wave (2021, October-December) in Czechia. For the analysis, individual data about all COVID-19 deaths in the country (N = 5797, during the studied period) was used.

SUBMITTER: Hulikova Tesarkova K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9614200 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature