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Local approach to attributable disease burden: a case study on air pollution and mortality in Belgium
Methods In the local approach, mortality attributable to long-term exposure to particulate matter < 2.5 μm (PM 2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) is derived at the level of census tracts. Relying on ...
Residential tree canopy configuration and mortality in 6 million Swiss adults: a longitudinal study
different exposure metrics and natural-cause and cause-specific mortality in Swiss adults (aged from 20 years to 90 years). Mortality and census data were taken from the Swiss National Cohort (SNC). We ...
Residential tree canopy configuration and mortality in 6 million Swiss adults: a longitudinal study.
years to 90 years). Mortality and census data were taken from the Swiss National Cohort (SNC). We estimated the hazard ratios (HR s) and corresponding 95% CI s per IQR increase in the metrics adjusting ...
Residential green space and mental health-related prescription medication sales: An ecological study in Belgium.
were adjusted for socio-economic background variables, urban-rural differences, and administrative region, and included random effects of latitude and longitude. RESULTS: Urban census tracts were ...
Variability in the association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and mortality by exposure assessment method and covariate adjustment: A census-based country-wide cohort study
by exposure assessment method and by adjustment for geographic subdivisions. Methods We used the Belgian 2001 census linked to population and mortality register including nearly 5.5 million adults aged ...
Residential Exposure to Urban Trees and Medication Sales for Mood Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease in Brussels, Belgium: An Ecological Study
2012. Trait data were subsequently extracted for 309,757 trees in 604 census tracts. We used the average annual age-standardized rate of medication sales in Brussels for the period 2006 to 2014, ...
Residing in urban areas with higher green space is associated with lower mortality risk: A census-based cohort study with ten years of follow-up
and non-accidental and cardio-respiratory mortality. Methods We linked the Belgian 2001 census to population and mortality register follow-up data (2001–2011) among adults aged 30 years and older ...
Residential green space and medication sales for childhood asthma: A longitudinal ecological study in Belgium
prevalence was estimated from sales data of reimbursed medication for obstructive airway disease (OAD) prescribed to children between 2010 and 2014, aggregated at census tract level (n = 1872) by sex and age ...
Residential green space, air pollution, socioeconomic deprivation and cardiovascular medication sales in Belgium: A nationwide ecological study
pollution. We analyzed data for 11,575 census tracts using structural equation models for the entire country and for the administrative regions. Latent variables for green space, air pollution and ...
Evolution of educational inequalities in life and health expectancies at 25 years in Belgium between 2001 and 2011: a census-based study
disability-free life expectancy at age 25 (LE and DFLE) in Belgium between 2001 and 2011. Methods: The 2001 and 2011 census data were linked with the national register data for a five-year mortality follow up. ...