Open AccessBurden of dengue in Kerala using disability-adjusted life years from 2006 to 2016
Author(s) -
Zinia T Nujum,
Krishnapillai Vijayakumar,
V Meenakshy,
M Saboora Beegum
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of public health/indian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/ijph.ijph_166_18
Subject(s) - dengue fever , demography , medicine , disability adjusted life year , confidence interval , disease burden , population , incidence (geometry) , burden of disease , mortality rate , epidemiology , years of potential life lost , life expectancy , environmental health , surgery , virology , physics , sociology , optics
State-specific disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) are seldom calculated. Understanding the health and disease trends in groups of states is useful for finding the heterogeneity of disease epidemiology in the country.