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ABSTRACT
Objective
Despite generating huge employment opportunities and profitable business, fishing is considered a dangerous occupation due to challenging weather conditions and exposure to unhealthy occupational factors and lifestyles, which contribute to various health issues. However, few studies have examined the health status of shrimp cultivators. Consequently, this study aims to estimate the age group-wise burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among shrimp cultivators.
Methods
Simple random sampling was employed for collecting data. The sample size was 357 shrimp cultivators. Disability-adjusted life years (DALY) and relative risk (RR) methods were used to measure the burden of NCDs among shrimp cultivators. This study reported the burden of NCDs per 100,000 shrimp cultivators.
Results
The top five prevalence of NCDs per 100,000 shrimp cultivators were mental disorders (85,434), musculoskeletal diseases (26,325), digestive diseases (9,803), diabetes (5,882), and cardiovascular diseases (4,481). DALY per 100,000 shrimp cultivators was 33,407.59, while at the national level, it was 24,775.99 per 100,000 people across all age groups. The RR of NCDs among shrimp cultivators in terms of DALY was 1.35, indicating a 0.35 times higher burden of NCDs among shrimp cultivators than at the national level. The largest RR of NCDs was found among shrimp cultivators aged 15–49 years (1.85), followed by 50–69 years (1.09). The highest percentage changes in the burden of NCDs among shrimp cultivators, resulting from changes in the methods of estimating DALY, was observed in the age group of 70 years and above (−48.36%) followed by 15–49 years (−46.08%) and 50–69 years (−40.33%) when compared to the baseline method of estimating DALY without utilizing age weightage and discount rate.
Conclusions
Focus should be given to improving the lifestyle and occupational factors of shrimp cultivators to mitigate the burden of NCDs.
Abbreviations
| NCDs | = | Non-communicable diseases |
| DALY | = | Disability-adjusted life years |
| RR | = | Relative risks |
| YLL | = | Years of life lost from mortality |
| YLD | = | Years of life lost from disability |
| GVA | = | Gross value added |
| MPEDA | = | Marine Products Export Development Authority |
| GOI | = | Government of India |
| SRS | = | Sample registration system |
| ALT | = | Abridged life tables |
| ORGI | = | Office of registrar general and census commissioner, India |
| GBD | = | Global burden of disease |
| DALY (0,0) | = | Disability-adjusted life years estimated without applying discount rate and assigning equal age weightage |
| DALY (3,0) | = | Disability-adjusted life years estimated using a discount rate of 3% and assigning equal age weightage |
| DALY (3,1) | = | Disability-adjusted life years estimated applying a discount rate of 3% and assigning unequal age weightage |
| ICD-10 | = | International classification of diseases and related health problems, 10th revision |
| BMI | = | Body mass index |
| DALY Rate | = | DALY per 100,000 people or shrimp cultivators |
| SCs | = | Shrimp cultivators |
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the Fishery Office of Jagatsinghpur district for providing the list of licensed shrimp cultivating firms in this district. We are also grateful to all faculty and research scholars of the Department of Analytical and Applied Economics, Utkal University, Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, for providing valuable suggestions for the improvement of the present paper during the presentation of the MPhil dissertation.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
Ethical considerations
The study was conducted after obtaining approval from the Departmental Research Committee (DRC) of the Department of Analytical & Applied Economics, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India (Approval no. ECO/85(A)/2020 and Date of approval: 21/03/2020).
Supplementary Material
Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/1059924X.2024.2368737