Quantifying the Health Burden of COVID-19 Using Individual Estimates of Years of Life Lost Based on Population-wide Administrative Level Data
Accounting for preexisting health problems is crucial when estimating YLL due to COVID-19. While average life expectancy among COVID-19 decedents was substantially lower than for the rest of the population, the popular notion that only the frail died from COVID-19 is not true.
Authors
- Pieter van Baal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9913-2393)
- Bram Wouterse (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8432-8841)
- Elena Milkovska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1143-4915)
- Jawa Issa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7370-3175)
Institutions
- Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Epidemiology
- Published
- 2025-04-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/ede.0000000000001854
- Primary Topic
- Global Health Care Issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00