Open AccessBurden of COVID-19: DALY and productivity loss for Karnataka, India
Author(s) -
Suhas Bhat,
ShashankD Shindhe,
SurekhaB Munoli
Publication year - 2022
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_959_21
Subject(s) - pandemic , epidemiology , gross domestic product , productivity , medicine , covid-19 , mortality rate , activity based costing , economic impact analysis , environmental health , socioeconomics , geography , demography , economic growth , business , economics , surgery , disease , pathology , marketing , sociology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , microeconomics
COVID-19 is a pandemic that is devastating the world right now quelling over 2.5 million people worldwide. Similarly, in India and its largest southern state Karnataka, the coronavirus is responsible for around 161,000 and 12,449 deaths, respectively. These numbers capture the havoc caused by this novel coronavirus, but fail to discern the complete picture.