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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 ...
Population vulnerability to COVID-19 in Europe: a burden of disease analysis
countries in Europe. YLD was restricted to a list of specific health conditions associated with being at risk of developing severe consequences from COVID-19 based on guidance from the United Kingdom ...
Superficial mycoses in Belgium: Burden, costs and antifungal drugs consumption
mycoses in Belgium and to assess trends in associated antifungal consumption. Methods The burden of dermatophytoses (including onychomycosis), as well as skin and genital candidiasis, was estimated using ...
Estimates of the 2015 global and regional disease burden from four foodborne metals- arsenic, cadmium, lead and methylmercury
attention on acute diseases associated with infectious foodborne agents. Four articles in this special section describe in detail the burden of disease from foodborne lead, methylmercury, arsenic, and ...
A probabilistic approach for risk-benefit assessment of food substitutions: A case study on substituting meat by fish
difference model Abstract: Accounting for substitution of foods is inevitable when evaluating health impact of dietary changes. But substitution behavior and the associated health impact may vary between ...
Global burden of cancer and coronary heart disease resulting from dietary exposure to arsenic, 2015
burden, there is a threshold effect for arsenic-associated CHD with no increased risk of heart disease at the expected lower bound of arsenic consumption in food. These estimates indicate that foodborne ...
The health and economic impact of acute gastroenteritis in Belgium, 2010-2014
343 deaths, 27 707 hospitalised patients, 464 222 GP consultations and 10 058 741 episodes occurring in the community (0.91 cases/person) on average per year. AGE was associated with 11 855 DALY s per ...
Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis
Control point prevalence survey of health-care-associated infections in European acute care hospitals in 2011-12 to estimate the number of non- BSI s. We developed disease outcome models for five types of ...
Burden and Risk Assessment of Foodborne Disease
Disease, Springer International Publishing, Cham, p.83- 106 (2018) ISBN: 978-3-319-92137-2 Keywords: burden of disease Foodborne disease Abstract: Foodborne illness is typically associated with acute ...