Inequalities in population health loss by multiple deprivation: COVID-19 and pre-pandemic all-cause disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in Scotland

Table 1 Inequalities in COVID-19 disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), Scotland, 2020

Measure of inequality	COVID-19		Pre-pandemic all-cause
Measure of inequality	DALYs lower limit	DALYs upper limit	Pre-pandemic all-cause
Absolute rate difference (/100,000 population)	1694	1878	20,667
Relative rate difference	2.61	2.58	1.97
Relative Index of Inequality	1.16	1.16	0.84
Slope Index of Inequality (/100,000 population)	2048	2289	26,241
Attributable risk (%)	40%	40%	31%
Attributable risk (N)	38,925	43,284	535,298

‘DALYs’ denote disability-adjusted life years; attributable risk is the theoretical percentage/number of DALYs that could have been averted if all socioeconomic groups had the same observed DALY rate as the least deprived group

ISSN: 1475-9276