By Aaliya F Ibrahim et al.
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Abstract
Background
Years of life lost (YLL) is a measure of fatal burden, quantifying the toll associated with premature death. YLL is an important and useful metric for assessing the mortality impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we calculated the fatal burden associated with COVID-19 and other causes of death in Australia from 2019 to 2022.
Methods
The analysis was conducted using demographic and death data contained within the Person Level Integrated Data Asset. The study population included all deaths which occurred between 2019 to 2022 in Australia that were received and registered by the Australian Bureau of Statistic (ABS) by 31 March 2023. We calculated YLL using the 2019–2021 Australian life tables published by the ABS, which provided more contemporary single-age and gender breakdowns of aspirational life expectancy than standard reference life tables found in the Global Burden of Disease studies.
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