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Overview of air quality measures aiming to reduce emissions from road traffic and mitigate health impact in Belgium
quality measures public health Abstract: Poor air quality is the number one environmental cause of premature death across the EU. Although great efforts have been made in the last decade to reduce air ...
Epidemiology of COVID-19 mortality in Belgium from wave 1 to wave 7 (March 2020 – 11 September 2022)
men, across all age groups. COVID-19 CFR decreased over time. All-cause and excess mortality The all-cause CMR for Belgium was the highest for wave 2 (522 per 100,000 inhabitants). The number of deaths ...
Surveillance of COVID-19 mortality in Belgium, epidemiology and methodology during 1st and 2nd wave (March 2020- 14 February 2021)
Coronavirus COVID-19 mortality Surveillance Abstract: This report provides epidemiological figures about the characteristics of COVID-19 deaths during the first wave (1 March 2020 until 21 June 2020), the inter ...
Excess mortality during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 epidemic in Belgium
Coronavirus COVID-19 mortality Excess mortality mortality Surveillance Abstract: COVID-19 mortality was highly correlated with excess all-cause mortality during the first two waves of the epidemic. ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to gender disparities in health expectancies in Belgium, 2001, 2004 and 2008
was applied to life tables to estimate DFLE and LED using the Sullivan method. Decomposition techniques were used to assess the contribution of mortality and disability and further of causes of death ...
Global transcriptional analyses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using old and new drugs
recent report of the WHO ranks tuberculosis (TB) alongside HIV as a leading cause of death by infectious diseases. In combination, the spread of (multi-)drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is rising ...
Global transcriptional analyses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using old and new drugs
(TB) alongside HIV as a leading cause of death by infectious diseases. In combination, the spread of (multi-)drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is rising (480 000 new cases), impeding the ...
Cereulide food toxin, beta cell function and diabetes: Facts and hypotheses.
to heat, acidity and proteolysis. While cereulide is well known to cause acute emetic toxicity when ingested at high doses, several in vitro studies have shown that also extremely low doses of ...
Transitions between health care settings in the final three months of life in four EU countries
Source: Eur.J.Public Health, Volume? (2015) Keywords: a age ALL Analyses article AS at Belgium Brussels cancer care Case cause Cause of Death chronic Common community Countries cross-national data Data ...
Excess mortality among the elderly in European countries, December 2014 to February 2015.
Issue 11 (2015) Keywords: Age Distribution Aged Aged, 80 and over Algorithms Cause of Death Europe Female Humans Influenza A Virus, H3N2 Subtype Influenza, Human Male mortality Pandemics Population ...