TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of the burden of COVID-19 in italy
T2 - Results of disability-adjusted life years (dalys) and productivity loss
AU - Nurchis, Mario Cesare
AU - Pascucci, Domenico
AU - Sapienza, Martina
AU - Villani, Leonardo
AU - D’ambrosio, Floriana
AU - Castrini, Francesco
AU - Specchia, Maria Lucia
AU - Laurenti, Patrizia
AU - Damiani, Gianfranco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/6/2
Y1 - 2020/6/2
N2 - The WHO declared the novel coronavirus disease a pandemic, with severe consequences for health and global economic activity and Italy is one of the hardest hit countries. This study aims to assess the socio-economic burden of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy through the estimation of Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and productivity loss. The observational study was based on data from official governmental sources collected since the inception of epidemic until 28 April 2020. DALYs for a disease combines the years of life lost due to premature mortality in the population and the years lost due to disability of the disease. In addition to DALYs, temporary productivity loss due to absenteeism from work and permanent productivity loss due to premature mortality were estimated using the Human Capital Approach. The total DALYs amount to 2.01 per 1000 persons. The total permanent productivity loss was around EUR 300 million while the temporary productivity loss was around EUR 100 million. This evaluation does not consider other economic aspects related to lockdown, quarantine of contacts, healthcare direct costs etc. The burden of disease methodology is functional metric for steering choices of health policy and allowing the government to be accountable for the utilization of resources.
AB - The WHO declared the novel coronavirus disease a pandemic, with severe consequences for health and global economic activity and Italy is one of the hardest hit countries. This study aims to assess the socio-economic burden of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy through the estimation of Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and productivity loss. The observational study was based on data from official governmental sources collected since the inception of epidemic until 28 April 2020. DALYs for a disease combines the years of life lost due to premature mortality in the population and the years lost due to disability of the disease. In addition to DALYs, temporary productivity loss due to absenteeism from work and permanent productivity loss due to premature mortality were estimated using the Human Capital Approach. The total DALYs amount to 2.01 per 1000 persons. The total permanent productivity loss was around EUR 300 million while the temporary productivity loss was around EUR 100 million. This evaluation does not consider other economic aspects related to lockdown, quarantine of contacts, healthcare direct costs etc. The burden of disease methodology is functional metric for steering choices of health policy and allowing the government to be accountable for the utilization of resources.
KW - Coronavirus
KW - COVID-19
KW - DALY
KW - Pandemic
KW - Productivity loss
KW - YLD
KW - YLL
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U2 - 10.3390/ijerph17124233
DO - 10.3390/ijerph17124233
M3 - Article
C2 - 32545827
AN - SCOPUS:85086524326
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 17
SP - 1
EP - 12
JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
IS - 12
M1 - 4233
ER -