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Urban environment and mental health: the NAMED project, protocol for a mixed-method study

mental health are still not well understood. These associations are highly complex and require an interdisciplinary and integrated research approach to cover the broad range of mitigating factors. This ...

Healthcare-associated infections in home healthcare: an extensive assessment, 2019.

challenges, including healthcare-associated infections (HAI). Currently, in Belgium, data and guidelines on the topic are lacking.AimTo develop a definition of HAI in HHC and investigate associated risk factors ...

Burden of non-communicable diseases in Cyprus, 1990–2017: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study

the burden of NCD s over the period from 1990 to 2017, NCD s are still a major public health challenge. Implementation of interventions and early detection screening programmes of modifiable NCD risk ...

Recommendations to plan a national burden of disease study

is a systematic and scientific effort to quantify and compare the magnitude of health loss due to different diseases, injuries, and risk factors with estimates produced by demographic characteristics ...

Conducting national burden of disease studies in small countries in Europe– a feasible challenge?

studies use disability-adjusted life years (DALY s) as a population health metric to quantify the years of life lost due to morbidity and premature mortality for diseases, injuries and risk factors ...

Iron Deficiency Is a Risk Factor for Thyroid Dysfunction During Pregnancy: A Population-Based Study in Belgium

Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Moreno-Reyes, Rodrigo; Bernard Corvilain; Caroline Daelemans; Fleur Wolff; Camilo Fuentes Peña; Stefanie Vandevijvere Source: Thyroid, Volume 31, Issue 12 (2021) Abstract: Background: Iron defici ...

Conceptual causal framework to assess the effect of SARS-CoV-2 variants on COVID-19 disease severity among hospitalized patients

assumptions on the relationship between (confounding) variables are made explicit. Various DAG s are presented to explore specific study design options and the risk for selection bias. Next, the data ...

Prevalence and associated factors of burnout risk among intensive care and emergency nurses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study in Belgium

Burnout COVID-19 Nurses Pandemics Abstract: Abstract Objective The objectives of this study were to assess (1) the prevalence of burnout risk among nurses working in intensive care units and emergency ...

Risk factors and their contribution to population health in the European Union (EU-28) countries in 2007 and 2017

burden of disease network European Union Global Burden of Disease Study Risk Factors Abstract: Background The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study has generated a wealth of data on death and disability ...

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