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The use of the global activity limitation Indicator and healthy life years by member states and the European Commission
HLY are often used to set targets and develop strategies in health such as national health plans. Analysis of HLY has even led to policy change. In some countries, HLY have become the main indicator for ...
National public health system responses to diabetes and other important noncommunicable diseasesNationale Public-Health-Maßnahmen für Diabetes und andere wichtige nichtübertragbare Krankheiten
Federal Center for Health Education (BZ gA) to develop a diabetes prevention strategy. In a two-day workshop jointly organized by the RKI and the BZ gA, representatives from public health institutes in ...
Multinomial additive hazard model to assess the disability burden using cross-sectional data.
existing methods based on cross-sectional data, the attribution method, which was originally developed for binary disability outcomes, is an attractive option, as it enables the partition of disability into ...
Intake of Fat-Soluble Vitamins in the Belgian Population: Adequacy and Contribution of Foods, Fortified Foods and Supplements.
children. The results may guide health authorities when developing population health interventions and regulations to ensure adequate intake of fat-soluble vitamins in Belgium. Health Topics: Health and ...
Mapping EQ-5D utilities to GBD 2010 and GBD 2013 disability weights: results of two pilot studies in Belgium.
respectively. The objective of this study is to develop an approach for mapping EQ-5D utilities to existing GBD 2010 and GBD 2013 DW s, allowing to predict new GBD 2010/2013 DW s based on EQ-5D utilities. ...
Fat-soluble vitamin intake from the consumption of food, fortified food and supplements: design and methods of the Belgian VITADEK study.
micronutrients in population subgroups such as infants, toddlers, pregnant and lactating women is challenging and requires specific approaches. This paper describes the Belgian VITADEK study, developed to assess ...
Present status of laboratory diagnosis of human taeniosis/cysticercosis in Europe.
establish in the human central nervous system (neurocysticercosis, NCC) and other organs and tissues; they also develop in pigs, the natural intermediate host. Human taeniosis may be caused by T. solium, ...
The need for European OneHealth/EcoHealth networks.
workshop that took place in fall 2016 and aimed to bring together different communities and explore collaborative potential, the creation of European networks focusing on the development of important OH / EH ...
Vaccine preventable bacterial diseases in Belgium: monitoring of general population immunity and pregnancy vaccination strategies
vaccination. Diphtheria and tetanus are now under control although sporadic cases still occur in highly vaccinated populations, whereas pertussis is re-emerging in some developed countries despite the high ...
Fusarium, clinical relevance and mass spectrometry methods for identification, using strains of the Belgian fungal culture collection BCCM/IHEM
development of a new identification method for mold infections which is directly applicable on clinical samples and relies upon the detection of species- and genus-specific peptides using tandem mass ...