Methodological choices in brucellosis burden of disease assessments: A systematic review.
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 th...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:59cf1a91faa948ff8916878af07e7f18 2023-07-30T04:02:02+02:00 Methodological choices in brucellosis burden of disease assessments: A systematic review. Carlotta Di Bari Narmada Venkateswaran Mieghan Bruce Christina Fastl Ben Huntington Grace T Patterson Jonathan Rushton Paul Torgerson David M Pigott Brecht Devleesschauwer 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010468 https://doaj.org/article/59cf1a91faa948ff8916878af07e7f18 EN eng Public Library of Science (PLoS) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010468 https://doaj.org/toc/1935-2727 https://doaj.org/toc/1935-2735 1935-2727 1935-2735 doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0010468 https://doaj.org/article/59cf1a91faa948ff8916878af07e7f18 PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 16, Iss 12, p e0010468 (2022) Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010468 2023-07-16T00:33:37Z 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. Methods/principal findings A systematic search for brucellosis burden of disease calculations was conducted in pre-selected international and grey literature databases. Using a standardized reporting framework, we evaluated each estimate on a variety of key methodological assumptions necessary to compute a DALY. Fourteen studies satisfied the inclusion criteria (human brucellosis and quantification of DALYs). One study reported estimates at the global level, the rest were national or subnational assessments. Data regarding different methodological choices were extracted, including detailed assessments of the adopted disease models. Most studies retrieved brucellosis epidemiological data from administrative registries. Incidence data were often estimated on the basis of laboratory-confirmed tests. Not all studies included mortality estimates (Years of Life Lost) in their assessments due to lack of data or the assumption that brucellosis is not a fatal disease. Only two studies used a model with variable health states and corresponding disability weights. The rest used a simplified singular health state approach. Wide variation was seen in the duration chosen for brucellosis, ranging from 2 weeks to 4.5 years, irrespective of the whether a chronic ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Human health Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Daly ENVELOPE(63.761,63.761,-67.513,-67.513) PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 16 12 e0010468 |
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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. Methods/principal findings A systematic search for brucellosis burden of disease calculations was conducted in pre-selected international and grey literature databases. Using a standardized reporting framework, we evaluated each estimate on a variety of key methodological assumptions necessary to compute a DALY. Fourteen studies satisfied the inclusion criteria (human brucellosis and quantification of DALYs). One study reported estimates at the global level, the rest were national or subnational assessments. Data regarding different methodological choices were extracted, including detailed assessments of the adopted disease models. Most studies retrieved brucellosis epidemiological data from administrative registries. Incidence data were often estimated on the basis of laboratory-confirmed tests. Not all studies included mortality estimates (Years of Life Lost) in their assessments due to lack of data or the assumption that brucellosis is not a fatal disease. Only two studies used a model with variable health states and corresponding disability weights. The rest used a simplified singular health state approach. Wide variation was seen in the duration chosen for brucellosis, ranging from 2 weeks to 4.5 years, irrespective of the whether a chronic ... |
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Methodological choices in brucellosis burden of disease assessments: A systematic review. |
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Methodological choices in brucellosis burden of disease assessments: A systematic review. |
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Methodological choices in brucellosis burden of disease assessments: A systematic review. |
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Methodological choices in brucellosis burden of disease assessments: A systematic review. |
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