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. 2024 Mar 21:17:1101-1116.
doi: 10.2147/IJGM.S449364. eCollection 2024.

Health Hazard Among Shrimp Cultivators in India: A Quantitative Burden of Disease Study

Chandan Kumar Swain  1 , Himanshu Sekhar Rout  2 , Mihajlo Jakovljevic  3   4   5
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Health Hazard Among Shrimp Cultivators in India: A Quantitative Burden of Disease Study

Chandan Kumar Swain et al. Int J Gen Med. .

Abstract

Background: The lack of focus on the health status of shrimp cultivators by previous studies while the production of shrimp has been rising over the years after the introduction of the blue revolution in India. The present study estimated the burden of diseases among shrimp cultivators in India.

Methods: Primary data were collected by using simple random sampling. The sample size was 357. The classification of diseases were made by using the international classification of diseases, tenth revision (ICD-10), version 2019. Disability-adjusted life years (DALY) were used to measure the health status of shrimp cultivators. DALY is the summation of the burden of disease from mortality and morbidity. Sensitive and uncertainty analysis was used by changing the value of the parameter and method, respectively.

Results: The burden of disease among shrimp cultivators in 2020 ranges from 101.03 DALY based on equal age weightage, without discount rate, and potential life expectancy (DALY0,0,PLE) to 84.02 DALY based on unequal age weightage, discount rate, and standardized life expectancy (DALY1,0.03,SLE). The burden of disease per 100,000 shrimp cultivators was 28,477.74 DALY and 23,600.84 DALY when calculated by using DALY0,0,PLE and DALY1,0.03,SLE method, respectively. The higher burden of diseases from non-communicable diseases was followed by injury and communicable diseases for both methods. The disease burden from mortality was more than two-thirds of the total burden of disease and the rest from morbidity. The burden of disease among shrimp cultivators was sensitive to parameter changes because it changes between 92.10 DALY and 63.03 DALY with the change in the parameter. Uncertainty in the burden of disease among them was due to method variation, which ranges from 120.03 DALY to 74.06 DALY.

Conclusion: The higher burden of non-communicable diseases, and the lower burden of communicable, and injuries per 100,000 shrimp cultivators compared to the national level in India.

Keywords: DALY; India; epidemiology; occupational hazard; shrimp cultivators.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests in this work.

Figures

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Age weightage to different age groups.
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Impact of change in the value of β and C on age weightage to different age groups.
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Figure 3
Years of life lost from mortality at different age.
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Figure 4
Change in disability-adjusted life years from change in method.
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DALY (0,0,PLE).
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Figure 6
DALY (1,0.03,SLE).
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Figure 7
Burden of a broad category of diseases and injuries.
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Figure 8
Impact of change in methodology on the rank of diseases (in descending order).
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Figure 9
Percentage change in DALY (1,0.03,SLE) compared to DALY (0,0,PLE).
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Figure 10
Scenario Analysis of DALY (k,r).
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