1. Work and Budget Plan for the 2nd Grant Period
Our WBP for the 2nd Grant Period has been approved by the COST Association and our MC. We have foreseen 1 WG/MC meeting for the end of the year, and 2 Training Schools for the first half of next year. At the moment, it is not yet clear if we will be able to organize these events as face-to-face meetings, or if we will need to find online alternatives instead. We will keep you posted about further decisions.
In our WBP, we have also foreseen new budget for Short-Term Scientific Missions and ITC-Conference Grants. For more information about these activities, please have a look at our website or contact Tina Lesnik.
2. COST Association's response to the corona crisis
The COST Association has created a webpage dedicated to corona, to highlight how different COST Actions are contributing to the scientific response: https://www.cost.eu/coronavirus
The corona crisis has also entailed various financial and practical problems for many COST Actions. Several COST Actions are therefore joining forces to reach out to the COST Association to ask for more flexibility. We will keep you informed about any further developments that may affect our Action.
3. Estimating the burden of COVID-19
Several countries have started the process of calculating Disability-Adjusted Life Years for COVID-19 in their country. We aim to bring together these experiences and provide methodological guidance on how to estimate the burden of COVID-19, via a dedicated page: https://www.burden-eu.net/outputs/covid-19.
4. New publications in the network
Population vulnerability to COVID-19 in Europe: a burden of disease analysis. Wyper et al. Arch Public Health 2020 78:47. doi: 10.1186/s13690-020-00433-y.
Adjusting for comorbidity in incidence-based DALY calculations: an individual-based modeling approach. McDonald et al. BMC Med Res Methodol 2020 20:100. doi: 10.1186/s12874-020-00987-z.
The Burden of Disease due to COVID-19 in Korea Using Disability-Adjusted Life Years. Jo et al. Korean Med Sci. 2020 Jun 1;35(21):e199. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e199.
A systematic review of studies measuring health-related quality of life of general injury populations: update 2010-2018. Geraerds et al. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2020 May 29;18(1):160. doi: 10.1186/s12955-020-01412-1.
Health inequalities are worsening in the North East of England. Corris et al. Br Med Bull. 2020 May 28:ldaa008. doi: 10.1093/bmb/ldaa008.
Productivity Loss Among Parents of Children with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases in Relation to Disease Activity and Patient's Quality of Life. Stawowczyk . J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2020 May 26. doi: 10.1097/MPG.0000000000002801.
COVID-19 and diabetes: The why, the what and the how. Cuschieri S, Grech S. J Diabetes Complications. 2020 May 22:107637. doi:
10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2020.107637.
A comparison of disease burden and the government budget for mental health in Korea. Go et al. J Ment Health. 2020 May 22:1-8.
doi: 10.1080/09638237.2020.1765999.
Burden of disease from breast cancer attributable to smoking and second-hand smoke exposure in Europe. Carreras et al. Int J Cancer. 2020 May 1. doi: 10.1002/ijc.33021.
Global injury morbidity and mortality from 1990 to 2017: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. James et al. Inj Prev. 2020 Apr 24:injuryprev-2019-043494. doi:
10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043494.
Changes Over Time in the Differential Mortality Gap in Individuals With Mental Disorders. Plana-Ripoll et al. JAMA Psychiatry. 2020 Apr 8:e200334. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.0334.
The case for action on socioeconomic differences in overweight and obesity among Australian adults: modelling the disease burden and healthcare costs. Gearon et al. Aust N Z J Public Health. 2020 Apr;44(2):121-128. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12970.
Global trends of hand and wrist trauma: a systematic analysis of fracture and digit amputation using the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Study. Crowe CS et al. Inj Prev. 2020 Mar 13:injuryprev-2019-043495. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043495.
lillies: An R package for the estimation of excess Life Years Lost among patients with a given disease or condition. Plana-Ripoll et al. PLoS One. 2020 Mar 6;15(3):e0228073. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228073.
Changes in disease burden in Poland between 1990-2017 in comparison with other Central European countries: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Gańczak et al. PLoS One. 2020 Mar 2;15(3):e0226766. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226766.
Falls in older aged adults in 22 European countries: incidence, mortality and burden of disease from 1990 to 2017. Haagsma et al. Inj Prev. 2020 Feb 28:injuryprev-2019-043347. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043347.
The burden of unintentional drowning: global, regional and national estimates of mortality from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Study. Franklin et al. Inj Prev. 2020 Feb 20:injuryprev-2019-043484. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043484.
European Union state of health from 1990 to 2017: time trends and its enlargements' effects. Santos et al. Int J Public Health. 2020 Mar;65(2):175-186. doi: 10.1007/s00038-020-01335-0.
Improved and standardized method for assessing years lived with disability after burns and its application to estimate the non-fatal burden of disease of burn injuries in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands. Spronk et al. BMC Public Health. 2020 Jan 29;20(1):121. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-8233-8.
The global burden of falls: global, regional and national estimates of morbidity and mortality from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. James et al. Inj Prev. 2020 Jan 15:injuryprev-2019-043286. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043286.
Morbidity and mortality from road injuries: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. James SL, et al. Inj Prev. 2020 Jan 8:injuryprev-2019-043302. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043302.
Burden of injury along the development spectrum: associations between the Socio-demographic Index and disability-adjusted life year estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Haagsma et al. Inj Prev. 2020 Jan 8:injuryprev-2019-043296. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043296.
Epidemiology of facial fractures: incidence, prevalence and years lived with disability estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study. Lalloo et al. Inj Prev. 2020 Jan 8:injuryprev-2019-043297. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043297.
The Global Burden of Disease Methodology Has Been Good for Mental Disorders: But Not Good Enough. Weye et al. Can J Psychiatry. 2020 Feb;65(2):102-103. doi: 10.1177/0706743719893591.
Burden of Disease Estimates of Seven Pathogens Commonly Transmitted Through Foods in Denmark, 2017. Pires et al. Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2020 May;17(5):322-339. doi: 10.1089/fpd.2019.2705.
Prioritising the development of severity distributions in burden of disease studies for countries in the European region. Wyper et al.
Arch Public Health. 2020 Jan 9;78:3. doi: 10.1186/s13690-019-0385-6.
How do world and European standard populations impact burden of disease studies? A case study of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in Scotland. Wyper et al. Arch Public Health. 2020 Jan 3;78:1. doi: 10.1186/s13690-019-0383-8.
