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5 November 2021, 2:00 pm
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17 August 2021
Srobana Ghosh
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Y-Ling Chi
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Anna Vassall
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Nuru Saadi
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Javier Guzman
We screened over 13,000 resources (see our methods) and the site now includes over 665 papers. After reviewing the literature, we found three notable gaps in coverage in terms of geographical focus and topic areas. We discuss those gaps in this blogpost
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Event
21 July 2021, 9:00 am
Working Paper
16 July 2021
Tomas Lievens, Amanda Glassman, Anthony McDonnell, Kalipso Chalkidou, Adrian Gheorghe
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Future of health financing: The expected economic contraction due to COVID-19 in developing economies is sufficient to put considerable pressure on budgetary space for health spending, which in many settings is already constrained.
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12 July 2021,
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30 June 2021, 11:00 am
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Preprint
22 June 2021
John, Denny, Narassima, M S, Menon, Jaideep C, Jammy, Guru Rajesh, Banerjee, Amitava
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on the global economy and stressed the health care systems worldwide. Measuring the burden of disease on health and economy is essential for system preparedness by way of allocation of funds and human resources.
Methods: The present study estimates Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), Years of Potential Productive Life Lost (YPPLL) and Cost of Productivity Lost (CPL) due to premature mortality and absenteeism, secondary to COVID-19 in Kerala state, India. The impact of disease on various age-gender cohorts has been analyzed. Sensitivity Analysis has been conducted by adjusting six variables with a total of 21 scenarios.
Results: Severity of infection and mortality were higher among older sub-group of patients, and male were more susceptible than female in most of the age groups. DALY for the baseline scenario was 15,924.24...