Development of a Web-based calculator to estimate DALY and Productivity Losses due to COVID-19
Objectives: Ever since the emergence of COVID-19, health and the economy worldwide have witnessed a severe disruption, with infection spreading rapidly, covering 231 countries as of May 07, 2023. Policymakers and Governments have been working to offer tailored interventions to the most vulnerable co...
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| author | Denny John M.S. Narassima Paramita Bhattacharya Nirmalya Mukherjee Jaideep Menon Amitava Banerjee |
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| description | Objectives: Ever since the emergence of COVID-19, health and the economy worldwide have witnessed a severe disruption, with infection spreading rapidly, covering 231 countries as of May 07, 2023. Policymakers and Governments have been working to offer tailored interventions to the most vulnerable cohorts. Given this background, the paper involves description towards developing a Web-based Calculator to compute various estimates that quantify health economic impacts as these are much helpful than just mortality and simpler measures. Methods: The computations required to determine the estimates and the variables involved have been picked based on the observations and literature. The manuscript presents the significance of the estimates, a description of the Calculator developed, followed by validation. The values estimated using Calculator were validated against those computed using formulas for the state of West Bengal, India. Results: The results indicated that the Calculator is able to produce near accurate results with the highest error percentage witnessed for Cost of Productivity Lost due to Absenteeism as 0.946%. Error percentages for Disability-Adjusted Life Years was 0.175, and less than 0.1 for all other estimates. Conclusions: This could prove to be an effective tool for the policymakers and practitioners to identify the long-term impacts and the most vulnerable cohorts and devise targeted interventions. Additionally, these tools will allow the policymakers and governments to save time in compute these estimates in the future. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-81fe2d1fd7304bfdb23e326c131fb8962024-02-29T05:19:09ZengElsevierClinical Epidemiology and Global Health2213-39842024-03-0126101488Development of a Web-based calculator to estimate DALY and Productivity Losses due to COVID-19Denny John0M.S. Narassima1Paramita Bhattacharya2Nirmalya Mukherjee3Jaideep Menon4Amitava Banerjee5Faculty of Life and Allied Health Sciences, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Corresponding author. Faculty of Life and Allied Health Sciences, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, IndiaMANT, Kolkata, IndiaMANT, Kolkata, IndiaDepartment of Public Health, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, India; Department of Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, IndiaDepartment of Public Health, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, India; Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UKObjectives: Ever since the emergence of COVID-19, health and the economy worldwide have witnessed a severe disruption, with infection spreading rapidly, covering 231 countries as of May 07, 2023. Policymakers and Governments have been working to offer tailored interventions to the most vulnerable cohorts. Given this background, the paper involves description towards developing a Web-based Calculator to compute various estimates that quantify health economic impacts as these are much helpful than just mortality and simpler measures. Methods: The computations required to determine the estimates and the variables involved have been picked based on the observations and literature. The manuscript presents the significance of the estimates, a description of the Calculator developed, followed by validation. The values estimated using Calculator were validated against those computed using formulas for the state of West Bengal, India. Results: The results indicated that the Calculator is able to produce near accurate results with the highest error percentage witnessed for Cost of Productivity Lost due to Absenteeism as 0.946%. Error percentages for Disability-Adjusted Life Years was 0.175, and less than 0.1 for all other estimates. Conclusions: This could prove to be an effective tool for the policymakers and practitioners to identify the long-term impacts and the most vulnerable cohorts and devise targeted interventions. Additionally, these tools will allow the policymakers and governments to save time in compute these estimates in the future.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213398423002750Disability-adjusted life yearsCost of productivity lostYears of potential productive life lostValue of statistical life |
| spellingShingle | Denny John M.S. Narassima Paramita Bhattacharya Nirmalya Mukherjee Jaideep Menon Amitava Banerjee Development of a Web-based calculator to estimate DALY and Productivity Losses due to COVID-19 Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health Disability-adjusted life years Cost of productivity lost Years of potential productive life lost Value of statistical life |
| title | Development of a Web-based calculator to estimate DALY and Productivity Losses due to COVID-19 |
| title_full | Development of a Web-based calculator to estimate DALY and Productivity Losses due to COVID-19 |
| title_fullStr | Development of a Web-based calculator to estimate DALY and Productivity Losses due to COVID-19 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development of a Web-based calculator to estimate DALY and Productivity Losses due to COVID-19 |
| title_short | Development of a Web-based calculator to estimate DALY and Productivity Losses due to COVID-19 |
| title_sort | development of a web based calculator to estimate daly and productivity losses due to covid 19 |
| topic | Disability-adjusted life years Cost of productivity lost Years of potential productive life lost Value of statistical life |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213398423002750 |
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