Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/53667
Title: Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) based COVID-19 health impact assessment: A systematic review protocol
Contributor(s): Gebeyehu, Daniel Teshome  (author)orcid ; East, Leah  (author)orcid ; Wark, Stuart  (author)orcid ; Islam, Md Shahidul  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2022-09-12
Open Access: Yes
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274468
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/53667
Abstract: 

Background

COVID-19 is a highly contagious infectious disease that emerged in 2019. This disease is causing devastating health, socio-economic, and economic crises. More specifically COVID-19 is affecting both the quality and length of human life. The overall health impact of this disease is measured by the disability-adjusted life years which is the sum of the life years lost due to disability (the effect on the health quality) and the years life lost due to premature death (effect on the length of life). The purpose of this review is to summarise DALYs-based health impact publications and produce compiled and informative literature that can aid the health regulators to make evidence-based decisions on mitigating COVID-19.

Methods

The review will be conducted using the PRISMA 2020 guidelines. The DALYs-based original observational and cross-sectional studies will be collected for assessing the health impact of COVID-19. Both the life quality and length impacts of COVID-19 will be reviewed. The life quality impact of COVID-19 will be measured using the life years lost due to disability (pre-recovery illness, pre-death illness, and post-acute consequences), and its impact on the length of life will be measured with years of life lost due to premature death (shortening of life expectancy). The combined health impact of COVID-19 on the quality and length of life will be measured in disability-adjusted life years.

Discussion

The impacts of COVID-19 on the two health outcomes (quality and length of life) will indicate the level of COVID-19 health burden. The increase or decrease of COVID-19 health impact might be due to the sample size differences of different studies and the omission of years lost due to post-acute consequences in some studies. After having a summarized systematic review health decision-makers will apply an impact-based response to COVID-19.

Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: PLoS One, 17(9), p. 1-9
Publisher: Public Library of Science
Place of Publication: United States of America
ISSN: 1932-6203
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 420207 Major global burdens of disease
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 200403 Disability and functional capacity
200406 Health protection and disaster response
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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