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Map injury death burden to YLL (years of life lost) burden

Source: R/injury_death_to_yll.R
injury_death_to_yll.Rd

Calculate the YLL burden from the death burden of injury based on the ratio in the GBD data.

Usage

injury_death_to_yll(injuries)

Arguments

injuries

data frame of injury deaths by age and sex category for each scenario incl. baseline

Value

list of injury deaths and YLLs (given as differences to reference scenario) plus the values in reference scenario

Details

The function performs the following steps:

  • join the estimated injury deaths with the global burden of disease (GBD) injury data by age and sex

  • multiply the estimated injury deaths by the yll to injury death ratio in the GBD data to predict YLL from the estimated injury deaths

  • extract and create matrices for deaths and ylls with one column for each scenario

  • create dataframe A with ylls and deaths of reference scenario

  • create dataframe B showing the differences in deaths and yll for each non-reference scenario to the reference scenario

  • if confidence intervals are required:

    • create dataframe with ylls and deaths of reference scenario using both the lower and upper relative risk boundary values

    • create dataframe showing the differences in deaths and yll for each non-reference scenario to the reference scenario using both the lower and upper relative risk boundary values

    • add the confidence upper and lower interval boundary values to the two output dataframes A and B