Model-based estimation of burden of COVID-19 with disability-adjusted life years and value of statistical life in West Bengal, India.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges to health systems and populations, particularly in India. Comprehensive, population-level studies of the burden of disease could inform planning, preparedness and policy, but are lacking in India. In West Bengal, India, we conducted a detailed analysis of the burden caused by COVID-19 from its onset to 7 January 2022.

Setting

Open-access, population-level and administrative data sets for West Bengal were used.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), years of potential productive life lost (YPPLL), cost of productivity lost (CPL: premature mortality and absenteeism), years of potential life lost (YPLL), premature years of potential life lost, working years of pote

SUBMITTER: John D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9871870 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature