Disability-Adjusted Life Years for Communicable Disease in the Korean Burden of Disease Study 2012

Lee, Ye-Rin; Moon, Kanghee; Kim, Young Ae; Park, So-Youn; Oh, Chang-Mo; Lee, Kyung-Suk; Oh, In-Hwan

The major parameters for measuring YLD were incidence, age at onset, duration, and disability weight (DW) of each disease. First, to calculate the incidence rate, we used national claims data from the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS). We defined cases by the number of medical utilizations. Second, to estimate duration and age at onset of disease, we used the Dismod-II program, which computed the duration and age at onset automatically when inputting the epidemiology index, such as incidence rate, prevalence rate, mortality rate, or fatality rate into the program. However, for some communicable diseases considered of short duration (< 60 days), we instead applied a duration calculated by a national health insurance statistical yearbook as per the expert opinions (7) . For example, in the case of influenza, we applied 7.3 days as the duration period based on the national health insurance statistical yearbook. Finally, we applied the DW developed by Ock et al. (15) .