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Potential impact fractions of body mass index reductions on the non-communicable disease burden in Belgium using G-computation

diseases (NCD s) in Europe, affecting almost 60% of all adults. In Belgium, as in many high-income countries, average body mass index (BMI) has significantly increased over the past decades. Tackling obesity ...

Adherence to '5-2-1-0' guidelines and multiple risky behaviours among adolescents in nine sub-Saharan African countries: evidence from Global School-based Student Health Survey 2012-2017.

participants, 12.7% (95% CI 7.5% to 19.0%) had overweight and 3.2% (95% CI 1.1% to 6.1%) had obesity. In almost all countries studied, girls were more affected by overweight and obesity than boys.While only 0.2% ...

The effectiveness of food system policies to improve nutrition, nutrition-related inequalities and environmental sustainability: a scoping review

triple-duty potentials (their effectiveness tackling simultaneously two or all of these outcomes). When available, their effects on nutritional vulnerabilities and women’s empowerment were described. The ...

A healthy lifestyle is positively associated with mental health and well-being and core markers in ageing

A one-point increment in the lifestyle score was associated with lower odds (ranging from 0.56 to 0.74) for all studied mental health outcomes and with a 1.74% (95% CI: 0.11, 3.40%) longer TL and 4.07% (95% CI: ...

Estimating risk factor attributable burden – challenges and potential solutions when using the comparative risk assessment methodology

self-explanatory (e.g., zero smoking), but often more difficult to define and justify (e.g., ideal consumption of whole grains). CRA combine all relevant information and allow to estimate population attributable ...

Variation in smoking attributable all-cause mortality across municipalities in Belgium, 2018: application of a Bayesian approach for small area estimations

Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Polina Putrik; Martina Otavova; Christel Faes; Brecht Devleesschauwer Source: BMC Public Health, Volume 22, Issue 1 (2022) Keywords: Bayesian hierarchical model Small area estimations Smoking att ...

De TDI-registratie in België, Jaarlijks rapport, Registratiejaar 2020

oplossing kunnen zijn. Ook zullen onze registers moeten worden aangepast om een totaalbeeld van alle beschikbare behandelingen te kunnen blijven voorzien. In de komende jaren zullen wij het effect van deze ...

Reitox national reporting to EMCDDA on drugs and drug addiction, 2019

disseminate information on drugs and drug addiction in Europe. In order to fulfil the above, the EMCDDA relies on the collaboration with the European information network (Reitox), consisting of all national ...

Impact of tobacco control interventions on health expectancies: use of dynamic modelling for health impact assessment in Belgium

all smokers quit” scenario, potentially reflecting the impact of new policies that combine smoking cessation interventions with strategies for preventing smoking initiation, yielded the largest increase ...

Trends in primary substance mentioned by patients entering treatment for illicit substance use in Belgium between 2012 and 2018

Results The subset of data used in this analysis is representative of the whole TDI dataset and for all covariates separately. There is a significant increase in cocaine entrants (+11%/year) between 2012 ...

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