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The burden of breast, cervical, and colon and rectum cancer in the Balkan countries, 1990-2019 and forecast to 2030
the DALY s burden for breast, cervical, and colon and rectum cancer is due to premature mortality, the numerous country-specific barriers to cancer early detection and quality and care continuum should ...
Burden of disease among older adults in Europe-trends in mortality and disability, 1990-2019
Disability-Adjusted Life Years Disabled Persons Europe Global Burden of Disease Global Health Humans Life expectancy mortality Quality-Adjusted Life Years Abstract: BACKGROUND: It is important to understand the effects ...
The non-fatal burden of cancer in Belgium, 2004–2019: a nationwide registry-based study
importance of assessing and monitoring the health status of a population has grown in the last decades. Consistent and high quality data on the morbidity and mortality impact of a disease represent the key ...
Estimating risk factor attributable burden – challenges and potential solutions when using the comparative risk assessment methodology
described e.g. by a mathematical function. Combining estimates to arrive at coherent functions is challenging due to the large variability in risk exposure definitions and data quality. Also, the uncertainty ...
QALY losses for chronic diseases and its social distribution in the general population: results from the Belgian Health Interview Survey
Public Health, Volume 22, Issue 1 (2022) Keywords: Chronic disease EQ-5D Health inequality health-related quality of life Quality-adjusted life year Abstract: Background. The burden of chronic diseases is ...
Risk factors and their contribution to population health in the European Union (EU-28) countries in 2007 and 2017
and air quality improved significantly between 2007 and 2017 in both exposure and attributable burden, others such as childhood maltreatment, drug use or alcohol use did not. Despite significant ...
Melanoma burden by melanoma stage: Assessment through a disease transition model
Humans Male Markov Chains Melanoma Models, Biological Neoplasm Recurrence, Local Neoplasm Staging Quality of Life Skin Neoplasms Tumor Burden Abstract: BACKGROUND: The total burden of melanoma has already ...
The health and economic burden of haemophilia in Belgium: a rare, expensive and challenging disease
calculation were derived using generic quality-of-life tools such as SF-6D from the SF-36 (36-item Short-Form Health Survey; for adults) and KINDL (generic quality-of-life instrument; for children) compared to ...
Cost-DALY comparison of hip replacement care in 12 Belgian hospitals
Belgian hospitals. METHODS: Our study seeks to innovate by proposing an interhospital comparison that simultaneously integrates the weighting of quality indicators and the costs of managing a patient. To this end, we ...