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EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders, 2023

Calculation of the population attributable fraction: what is the proportion of the disease burden attributed to one or multiple risk factors? The purpose of this report is to outline the general methodology ...

Investigating years of life lost in Belgium, 2004-2019: A comprehensive analysis using a probabilistic redistribution approach

redistribution was developed to fit the Belgian context: redistribution using predefined ICD codes, redistribution using multiple causes of death data, internal redistribution, and redistribution to all causes. ...

Burden of disease attributable to risk factors in European countries: A scoping literature review

comparative risk assessment (CRA) and risk assessment methods. METHODS: We searched multiple literature databases, including grey literature websites and targeted public health agencies websites. RESULTS: ...

EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders

Calculation of the population attributable fraction: what is the proportion of a disease burden attributed to one or multiple risk factors? The purpose of this report is to outline the general methodology used ...

The burden of legionnaires' disease in Belgium, 2013 to 2017.

defined a surveillance pyramid and estimated a multiplication factor to account for LD cases not captured by surveillance. The multiplication factor was then applied to the pooled number of LD cases ...

Adjusting for comorbidity in incidence-based DALY calculations: an individual-based modeling approach

healthcare-associated pneumonia (HAP) and by assuming an independent multiplicative model. First, each cumulative progression probabilities were converted to a daily transition probabilities. Second, disability weights ...

The burden of legionnaires’ disease in Belgium, 2013 to 2017

Belgian statistical office were used. To arrive at an estimate of the total number of symptomatic cases in Belgium, we defined a surveillance pyramid and estimated a multiplication factor to account for LD ...

A probabilistic approach for risk-benefit assessment of food substitutions: A case study on substituting meat by fish

individual substitution behaviors. Furthermore, when multiple intake scenarios are compared, we propose a method for adjusting intake differences for individual day-to-day variability. We estimated that 134 ...

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

expectancies, comparing the “business-as-usual” scenario with multiple alternative scenarios. Results: The “business-as-usual” scenario estimated that a cohort of 15-year-old men/women is expected to live ...

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