Background: The emerging and evolving situation of COVID-19 threatens the health of all human beings.The aim of this study is to measure the mortality rate and years of life lost, due to premature death caused by COVID-19 in Iran, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences.
Materials and Methods: In this study, all definite deaths due to COVID-19 were used. First, descriptive analysis including mean and standard deviation and number were performed, then raw and age-standardized (ASR) mortality rates were calculated. The analysis of the number of years of life lost due to premature death due to COVID-19 was performed using the YLL template of 2015, from the World Health Organization, in the Excel spreadsheet software version 2007.
Results: During the study period (from March 2020 to June 2020), 629 definite deaths due to COVID-19 occurred (men 59.14% and women 40.86 %). The mortality rate due to COVID-19 in men and women was 16.24 and 17.17 per 100,000 persons, respectively. Total years of life lost (YLL) during the study period was 4722 (3.06 per thousand persons) in men, 3691 (2.46 per thousand persons) in women and 8413 (2.77 per thousand persons) in both sexes.
Conclusion: This study is one of the first studies to measure the years of life lost due to COVID-19 in Iran. The results of this study show that due to the high mortality of this disease, decision makers should focus on reducing mortality in order to stop the possibly next waves of COVID-19.