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Burden and Risk Assessment of Foodborne Disease
costs associated with foodborne disease. In this chapter, we present an overview of the key methodological approaches that have been used to generate estimates of the health and economic burden of ...
Health and economic burden of Campylobacter
plays an increasingly important and accepted role in food safety decision making. Burden assessment is a top–down approach that uses available epidemiological data, for example, generated through ...
Impact of tobacco control interventions on health expectancies: use of dynamic modelling for health impact assessment in Belgium
in HLY (2.98y/2.35y) and the greatest reduction in ULY (-0.76y/-1.63y). Every simulated scenario reported an increase in HLY and a decrease in ULY when compared to the reference scenario, only the ...
Development of a generic and open source Incidence-Prevalence-Mortality model for the assessment of chronic disease epidemiology
researchers when the epidemiology of a disease is unreliable or altogether lacking. This thesis was created in order to make an R package called DisModR that accounts for this problem. In particular, the ...