SynthesisEpidemiology and infection2023
Burden of infectious disease studies in Europe and the United Kingdom: a review of methodological design choices.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review of the methodological considerations in Campylobacter burden of disease studies.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Pooled it
- Burden of disease studies supporting policymaking in the European Union: a systematic review.European journal of public health · 2024Pooled it
- A systematic review of studies that estimated the burden of chronic non-communicable rare diseases using disability-adjusted life years.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2024Pooled it
- Accuracy of Budget Impact Projections in Bulgarian Health Technology Assessment: A Five-Year Validation Study (2020-2025).Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Which Infectious Diseases Drive the Highest Absenteeism Costs-An Analysis Based on National Data Covering the Entire Polish Population in the Period of 2018-2023.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Standardised reporting of burden of disease studies: the STROBOD statement.Population health metrics · 2024Article
- Global burden associated with 85 pathogens in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Editorial: Value of a multidisciplinary approach for modern diagnosis of infectious diseases.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024Article
- Assessing the health burden of vaccine-preventable infections in European adults: challenges and opportunities translated into action.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2023Article
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Periklis CharalampousDepartment of Public Health, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-3460-4828
Juanita A HaagsmaDepartment of Public Health, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Lea S JakobsenNational Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
Vanessa GorassoDepartment of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Isabel NoguerNational School of Public Health, Carlos III Institute of Health, Madrid, Spain.
Alicia Padron-MonederoNational School of Public Health, Carlos III Institute of Health, Madrid, Spain.
Rodrigo SarmientoNational School of Public Health, Carlos III Institute of Health, Madrid, Spain.
João Vasco SantosCINTESIS@RISE - Centre for Health Technology and Services Research, Health Research Network, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Scott A McDonaldCentre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0788-6011
Dietrich PlassDepartment for Exposure Assessment and Environmental Health Indicators, German Environment Agency, Berlin, Germany.
Grant M A WyperSchool of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Ricardo AssunçãoFood and Nutrition Department, National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal.
Elena von der LippeDepartment of Epidemiology and Health Monitoring, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Balázs ÁdámInstitute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Ala'a AlKerwiDirectorate of Health, Service Epidemiology and Statistics, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Jalal ArablooHealth Management and Economics Research Center, Health Management Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Ana Lúcia BaltazarScientific-Pedagogical Unit of Dietetics and Nutrition, Coimbra Health School, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Boris BikbovDipartimento di Politiche per la Salute, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
Maria Borrell-PagesCardiovascular Program ICCC, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau (IIB-Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain.
Iris BrusDepartment of Public Health, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Genc BurazeriDepartment of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania.
Serafeim C ChaintoutisDiagnostic Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
José Chen-XuNOVA National School of Public Health, Public Health Research Centre, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Nino ChkhaberidzeDepartment of Medical Statistics, National Center for Disease Control and Public Health of Georgia, Georgia, Georgia.
Seila Cilovic-LagarijaInstitute for Public Health FB&H, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Barbara CorsoNeuroscience Institute, National Research Council, Padova, Italy.
Sarah CuschieriDepartment of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
Carlotta Di BariDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
Keren DopeltDepartment of Public Health, Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon, Israel.
Mary EconomouDepartment of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus.
Theophilus I EmetoPublic Health & Tropical Medicine, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-3282-1861
Peter FantkeQuantitative Sustainability Assessment, Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-7148-6982
Florian FischerInstitute of Public Health, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Alberto FreitasCINTESIS@RISE - Centre for Health Technology and Services Research, Health Research Network, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-2113-9653
Juan Manuel García-GonzálezDepartment of Sociology, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain.
Federica GazzelloniInstitute and Faculty of Actuaries, London, UK.
Mika GisslerDepartment of Knowledge Brokers, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland.
Artemis GkitakouDepartment of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Hakan GulmezDepartment of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, İzmir Democracy University, Izmir, Turkey.
Sezgin GunesDepartment of Multidisciplinary Molecular Medicine, Graduate Institute, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey.
Sebastian HallerDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Romana HaneefDepartment of Non-Communicable Diseases and Injuries, Santé Publique France, Saint-Maurice, France.
Cesar A HincapiéEBPI-UZWH Musculoskeletal Epidemiology Research Group, University of Zurich and Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
Paul HyndsEnvironmental Sustainability and Health Institute, Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Jane IdavainDepartment of Health Statistics, National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia.
Milena IlicDepartment of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia.
Irena IlicFaculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Gaetano IsolaDepartment of General Surgery and Surgical-Medical Specialties, School of Dentistry, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Zubair KabirPublic Health & Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Maria KamushevaDepartment of Organization & Economics of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Pavel KolkhirInstitute of Allergology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Naime Meriç KonarDepartment of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Kirsehir Ahi Evran University, Kirsehir, Turkey.
Polychronis KostoulasLaboratory of Epidemiology and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Public Health, University of Thessaly, Thessaly, Greece.
Mukhtar KulimbetHealth Research Institute, Al Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Carlo La VecchiaDepartment of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Paolo LauriolaItalian Network of Sentinel Physicians for the Environment (RIMSA), International Society Doctors for the Environment (ISDE), Federazione Nazione Ordine dei Medici (FNOMCeO), Arezzo, Italy.
Miriam LeviEpidemiology Unit, Department of Prevention, Local Health Authority Tuscany Centre, Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0086-3952
Marjeta MajerAndrija Štampar School of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Enkeleint A MechiliClinic of Social and Family Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Crete, Greece.
Lorenzo MonastaInstitute of Maternal, Child Health - IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7774-548X
Stefania MondelloDepartment of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Javier Muñoz LagunaEBPI-UZWH Musculoskeletal Epidemiology Research Group, University of Zurich and Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
Evangelia NenaLaboratory of Social Medicine, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
Edmond S W NgFaculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Paul NguewaDepartment of Microbiology and Parasitology, ISTUN Institute of Tropical Health, IdiSNA (Navarra Institute for Health Research), University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
Vikram NiranjanSchool of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sport Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Iskra Alexandra NolaAndrija Štampar School of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Rónán O'CaoimhDepartment of Geriatric Medicine, Mercy University Hospital, Grenville Place, Cork City, Ireland.
Marija ObradovićDepartment of Preventive and Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia, Herzegovina.
Elena PallariHealth Innovation Network, Minerva House, Montague Cl, London, UK.
Mariana PeyroteoComprehensive Health Research Centre, NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
Vera PinheiroPublic Health Unit, Matosinhos Local Health Unit, Matosinhos, Portugal.
Nurka PranjicDepartment of Occupational Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Miguel Reina OrtizSchool of Public and Population Health, Boise State University, Boise, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3309-6881
Silvia RivaDepartment of Psychology and Pedagogic Science, St Mary's University, London, UK.
Cornelia Melinda Adi SantosoFaculty of Public Health, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.
Milena Santric MilicevicInstitute of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Tugce SchmittDepartment of International Health, Care and Public Health Research Institute - CAPHRI, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Niko SpeybroeckInstitute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
Maximilian SprügelDepartment of Neurology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Paschalis SteiropoulosDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
Aleksandar StevanovicInstitute of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.ORCID 0000-0003-4759-075X
Lau Caspar ThygesenNational Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Fimka TozijaFaculty of Medicine, Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Skopje, North Macedonia.
Brigid UnimDepartment of Cardiovascular, Endocrine-Metabolic Diseases and Aging, Istituto Superiore Di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Hilal Bektaş UysalDepartment of Internal Medicine, Adnan Menderes University School of Medicine, Aydin, Turkey.
Orsolya VargaDepartment of Public Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.
Milena VasicFaculty of Dentistry Pancevo, University Business Academy in Novi Sad, Pancevo, Serbia.
Rafael José VieiraCINTESIS@RISE - Centre for Health Technology and Services Research, Health Research Network, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Vahit YigitDepartment of Health Management, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey.
Brecht DevleesschauwerDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
Sara M PiresNational Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-7751-1509
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Abstract
This systematic literature review aimed to provide an overview of the characteristics and methods used in studies applying the disability-adjusted life years (DALY) concept for infectious diseases within European Union (EU)/European Economic Area (EEA)/European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries and the United Kingdom. Electronic databases and grey literature were searched for articles reporting the assessment of DALY and its components. We considered studies in which researchers performed DALY calculations using primary epidemiological data input sources. We screened 3053 studies of which 2948 were excluded and 105 studies met our inclusion criteria. Of these studies, 22 were multi-country and 83 were single-country studies, of which 46 were from the Netherlands. Food- and water-borne diseases were the most frequently studied infectious diseases. Between 2015 and 2022, the number of burden of infectious disease studies was 1.6 times higher compared to that published between 2000 and 2014. Almost all studies (97%) estimated DALYs based on the incidence- and pathogen-based approach and without social weighting functions; however, there was less methodological consensus with regards to the disability weights and life tables that were applied. The number of burden of infectious disease studies undertaken across Europe has increased over time. Development and use of guidelines will promote performing burden of infectious disease studies and facilitate comparability of the results.
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Communicable DiseasesCost of IllnessEuropeHumansNetherlandsQuality-Adjusted Life YearsUnited KingdomBurden of diseasedisability-adjusted life yearsinfectious diseasesmethodologysystematic review
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