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QALY losses for chronic diseases and its social distribution in the general population: results from the Belgian Health Interview Survey
Methods. The Belgian Health Interview Survey 2013 and 2018 provided data on self-reported chronic conditions for a nationally representative sample. The annual QALY loss per 100,000 individuals was ...
Changes in quality-adjusted life expectancy in Belgium, 2013 and 2018
Sullivan method was used to compute at different ages QALE by gender using mortality data from the Belgian statistical office and average EQ-5D scores from the BHIS. QALE was calculated for 2013 and 2018, ...
Belgian population norms for the EQ-5D-5L, 2018
age, and region and to analyze its association with educational attainment. Methods The BHIS 2018 provided EQ-5D-5L data for a nationally representative sample of the Belgian population. The dimension ...
The impact of multimorbidity patterns on health-related quality of life in the general population: results of the Belgian Health Interview Survey
oL). The aim was to estimate the impact of coexisting chronic diseases on HRQ oL of the adult general Belgian population. Methods The Belgian Health Interview Survey 2018 provided data on self-reported ...
Health expectancies in the European Union: same concept, different methods, different results
The HLE methods differ in definition, measurement and valuation of health states. While SPH- HLE relies directly on one question, DW- HLE relies on epidemiological data adjusted for DW. Spearman’s r, ...
Potential impact of reduced tobacco use on life and health expectancies in Belgium
Abstract: Objectives We investigated the potential impact of reduced tobacco use scenarios on total life expectancy and health expectancies, i.e., healthy life years and unhealthy life years. Methods Data ...