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Acta medica Croatica : Časopis Akademije medicinskih znanosti Hrvatske, Vol. 74 No. 4, 2020.

Original scientific paper

SOME EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INDICATORS IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA DURING 2020

DARKO ROPAC orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-9805-3869 ; Catholic University of Croatia, Department of Nursing, Zagreb, Croatia
INA STAŠEVIĆ orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-6912-2191 ; University of Applied Sciences, Study of Nursing, Bjelovar, Croatia
GORANKA RAFAJ orcid id orcid.org/0000-0001-9878-3901 ; University of Applied Sciences, Study of Nursing, Bjelovar, Croatia

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Abstract

Introduction: At the beginning of 2020, a new virus called SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, began to spread
in Croatia. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic affected the
increase in mortality in the Croatian population during 2020, and whether it had an impact on life expectancy and how much.
Methods: In the study, offi cial data from state bodies, World Health Organization and EUROSTAT were used. In addition to
morbidity and lethality, the excess mortality in 2020 associated with the pandemic and the loss in years of life expectancy
were calculated. Results: During 2020, a total of 1,078,240 people (26.6% of the population) were tested, and 19.7% were
positive. A total of 212,084 people were infected, while 3,919 deaths were registered. From the beginning of the pandemic
until the end of the year, 4,550 more people died compared with the average fi gure recorded in the previous fi ve-year period,
yielding a 26.7% increase in the number of registered deaths. The lethality was 2.15% and mortality 11/10,000 inhabitants.
Hospital lethality was as high as 19%. COVID-19 reduced life expectancy by six years on average, and a total of 27,300 years
of life were lost. Conclusion: In 2020, 4,550 more people died compared with the previous average fi gure, yielding a 26.7%
increase due to the pandemic-related deaths. Lethality among the infected was 1.85%-2.15%, but among those treated at
hospital it was 19%. The mortality rate was about 10-11/10,000 inhabitants. A total of 27,300 years of life were lost.

Keywords

COVID-19; lethality; mortality; surplus deaths; lost years of life expectancy (YLL); Croatia

Hrčak ID:

256707

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/256707

Publication date:

28.4.2021.

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