Methodological choices in brucellosis burden of disease assessments: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Foodborne and zoonotic diseases such as brucellosis present many challenges to public health and economic welfare. Increasingly, researchers and public health institutes use disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) to generate a comprehensive comparison of the population health impact of these conditions. DALYs calculations, however, entail a number of methodological choices and assumptions, with data gaps and uncertainties to accommodate. Thisreview identifies existing brucellosis burden of disease studies and analyzes their methodological choices, assumptions, and uncertainties. It supports the Global Burden of Animal Diseases programme in the development of a systematic methodology to describe the impact of animal diseases on society, including human health.

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SUBMITTER: Di Bari C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9794075 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature