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The impact of multimorbidity patterns on health-related quality of life in the general population: results of the Belgian Health Interview Survey

disease combinations. Besides an additive effect, the presence of multiple conditions could also act synergistically or antagonistically regarding the impact on patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQ ...

Health expectancies in the European Union: same concept, different methods, different results

health measure that combines mortality and morbidity, which can be calculated using different methods. In this study, we aimed to assess the correlation, reliability and (dis)agreement between two ...

Population vulnerability to COVID-19 in Europe: a burden of disease analysis

70 years and above; and (ii) rate of YLD for COVID-19 vulnerable health conditions across all ages. Bivariate groupings were established for each outcome and combined to establish overall ...

Potential impact of reduced tobacco use on life and health expectancies in Belgium

combining the prevention of smoking initiation with smoking cessation programs are the most effective, yielding the largest increase in healthy life years (1.9/1.7) and the largest decrease in unhealthy life ...

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