Despite continued efforts to improve health systems worldwide, emerging pathogen
epidemics remain a major public health concern. Effective response to such outbreaks relies …

Introduction The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is widely used to assess the burden of
different health problems and risk factors. The disability weight, a value anchored between 0 …

Background Estimating the burden of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) compared to
other communicable diseases is an ongoing challenge given the need for good quality data …

Background and aims The Burden of Communicable Diseases in Europe (BCoDE) study
aimed to calculate disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 31 selected diseases in the …

The burden of an epidemic is often characterized by death counts, but this can be
misleading as it fails to acknowledge the age of the deceased patients. Years of life lost is …

The proportion of the global population aged 65 and older is rapidly increasing. Infections in
this age group, most recently with SARS-CoV-2, cause substantial morbidity and mortality …

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is an important public health problem in Canada. In keeping
with evolving evidence and understanding of HBV pathogenesis, the Canadian Association …

Background Infectious disease burden estimates provided by a composite health measure
give a balanced view of the true impact of a disease on a population, allowing the relative …

Objectives: WithClostridium difficileinfection (CDI) on the rise, knowledge of the current
economic burden of CDI can inform decisions on interventions related to CDI. We …

Background Influenza is rarely confirmed with laboratory testing and accurate assessment of
the overall burden of influenza is difficult. We used statistical modelling methods to generate …