Senior Engineer-Data Science, Altimetrik India Private Limited, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Indian J Public Health. 2022 Jul-Sep;66(3):239-244. doi: 10.4103/ijph.ijph_959_21.
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.
Broadly, this study aimed to study the mortality, morbidity, and the economic issues inflicted by the COVID-19 in the state of Karnataka. Specifically, the study used publically available epidemiological data to study both mortality and morbidity by means of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). Furthermore, the study aimed at estimating the permanent losses to the state gross domestic product (SGDP) due to the pandemic.
Publicly available epidemiological data are used from selected sources and DALYs are computed. The permanent loss to the SGDP is estimated using the human capital approach.
The total DALYs for Karnataka are computed to be 22,506 of which 22,041 correspond to mortality and remaining correspond to morbidity. Financially, Karnataka lost around 208 years of productive years of lives costing around ₹590 million rupees to the SGDP.
It is found that major burden of COVID-19 during study period is due to mortality. Morbidity accounts for around 2% of the total DALYs. Males are the most affected by the mortality and also the morbidity. With respect to loss in productivity, the losses due to premature mortality of COVID-19 amounted to ₹590 million.
目前，COVID-19 疫情正在全球肆虐，已导致全球超过 250 万人死亡。同样，在印度及其最大的南部邦卡纳塔克邦，冠状病毒分别导致约 161000 人和 12449 人死亡。这些数字反映了这种新型冠状病毒造成的破坏，但未能全面反映情况。
本研究旨在广泛研究 COVID-19 在卡纳塔克邦造成的死亡率、发病率和经济问题。具体而言，该研究使用公开的流行病学数据，通过伤残调整生命年（DALYs）来研究死亡率和发病率。此外，该研究旨在估计 COVID-19 大流行对邦国内生产总值（SGDP）造成的永久性损失。
使用从选定来源公开获得的流行病学数据来计算 DALYs。使用人力资本法来估计对 SGDP 的永久性损失。
卡纳塔克邦的总 DALYs 计算为 22506 个，其中 22041 个与死亡率相对应，其余与发病率相对应。从财务角度来看，卡纳塔克邦因 COVID-19 永久性损失了约 208 年的生产性生命年，损失约为 5.9 亿卢比的 SGDP。
研究期间，COVID-19 的主要负担是由于死亡率。发病率占总 DALYs 的 2%左右。男性受死亡率和发病率的影响最大。就生产力损失而言，COVID-19 过早死亡造成的损失达到 5.9 亿卢比。
