Burden of dengue in Kerala using disability-adjusted life years from 2006 to 2016

State-specific disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) are seldom calculated. Understanding the health and disease trends in groups of states is useful for finding the heterogeneity of disease epidemiology in the country.The objective of the study was to assess dengue burden in Kerala state, using DALY.DALY was computed using the DALY package of R. Incidence was derived using reported and estimated dengue cases for 2006-2016. Mortality was...