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Redesign and Validation of a Real-Time RT-PCR to Improve Surveillance for Avian Influenza Viruses of the H9 Subtype.
that the new assay has the potential to be employed under different settings and geographic areas for a sensitive detection of H9 viruses. Health Topics: Avian influenza Aviaire influenza Influenza ...
The association between area deprivation and COVID-19 incidence: a municipality-level spatio-temporal study in Belgium, 2020-2021.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Meurisse, Marjan; Lajot, Adrien; Devleesschauwer, Brecht; Dieter Van Cauteren *; Van Oyen, Herman; Laura Van den Borre *; Brondeel, Ruben Source: Arch Public Health, Volume 80, Issue 1 (2022) Hea ...
The potential of food environment policies to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in diets and to improve healthy diets among lower socioeconomic groups: an umbrella review.
inequalities in diets. For all other policy areas, the evidence base was poor. Current research largely fails to provide good quality evidence on impacts of food environment policies on socioeconomic ...
Real-time monitoring shows substantial excess all-cause mortality during second wave of COVID-19 in Europe, October to December 2020
The European monitoring of excess mortality for public health action (EuroMOMO) network monitors weekly excess all-cause mortality in 27 European countries or subnational areas. During the first wave of ...
Integrating technical and political views for a sustainable European Distributed Infrastructure on Population Health.
Economic Area Member States (EU / EEA MS s) general consensus, on developing this initiative and guarantee its sustainability. The aim of this study is to analyze the integration of technical and political ...
Variability in the association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and mortality by exposure assessment method and covariate adjustment: A census-based country-wide cohort study
with age as the underlying time scale and adjusted for various individual and area-level covariates. We further adjusted main models for two different area-levels following the European Nomenclature of ...
Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to the direct health impact of COVID-19 in India, 2020
UI 56–57%) than rural areas (44%; 95% UI 43.4–43.6) and in men (64%) than women (36%). In absolute terms, the highest DALY s occurred in the 51–60-year-old age group (28%) but the highest DALY s per ...
The association between area deprivation and COVID-19 incidence: a municipality-level spatio-temporal study in Belgium, 2020–2021
Archives of Public Health, Volume 80, Issue 1 (2022) Keywords: Area deprivation Belgium COVID-19 incidence socio-economic inequality Abstract: Background In Belgium, current research on socio-economic ...
Variation in smoking attributable all-cause mortality across municipalities in Belgium, 2018: application of a Bayesian approach for small area estimations
Bayesian hierarchical model Small area estimations Smoking attributable mortality Smoking prevalence Abstract: Background Smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable mortality and morbidity ...
Association between temperature and natural mortality in Belgium: Effect modification by individual characteristics and residential environment
and assessed effect modification by individual characteristics, preexisting chronic health conditions and residential environment (population density, built-up area and air pollutants: PM2.5, NO2, O3 ...