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Linkage of individual-patient data confirm protection of prophylactic human papillomavirus vaccination against invasive cervical cancer
based on intervention trials and populationbased surveillance of real-world data built up over the last two decades. Health Topics: Quality of healthcare Health and disease monitoring Qualité des soins ...
Social integration of people with non-psychotic mental illness over the last 2 decades: the widening gap in the adult population in Belgium
social integration Abstract: Purpose: Social integration is poor among people with mental illness (MI). In recent decades, many countries have developed policies to address this issue. It remains unclear, ...
Psychosocial factors associated with health-related quality of life in patients with chronic disease: Results of a cross-sectional survey
diseases will rise in the next decades, designing and implementing interventions that enhance these psychosocial abilities of patients, especially illness perceptions in multimorbid patients, is needed in ...
The overweight epidemic increasingly hits children of lower educated parents in Belgium
increasing trend seems to be levelling off since 2000. The purpose of this study is to examine this trend over the past two decades in Belgium and whether this trend differs by the parents’ socioeconomic ...
Development of novel analytical methods to trace small micro- and nanoplastics in food matrices
Foods,-, Paris, France (2023) Keywords: analytical methods food matrices microplastics nanoplastics Abstract: In the last decades, our life style significantly changed, for instance in terms of consumption ...
The Belgian physiotherapy reimbursement criteria for fall prevention fails in screening appropriately fall-prone community-dwelling older adults
adults Physiotherapy Prediction Abstract: OBJECTIVES: The incidence of falling in older adults has remained unchanged over the past decades, despite evidence-based prevention initiatives. Therefore, it is ...
The direct disease burden of COVID-19 in Belgium in 2020 and 2021
Disability-Adjusted Life Years Years lived with disability Years of life lost Abstract: BACKGROUND: Burden of disease estimates have become important population health metrics over the past decade to measure losses in ...
Inequalities in the burden of non-communicable diseases across European countries: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Although overall health status in the last decades improved, health inequalities due to non-communicable diseases (NCD s) persist between and within European countries. There is a lack ...
Potential impact fractions of body mass index reductions on the non-communicable disease burden in Belgium using G-computation
diseases (NCD s) in Europe, affecting almost 60% of all adults. In Belgium, as in many high-income countries, average body mass index (BMI) has significantly increased over the past decades. Tackling obesity ...
Implementation of MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry to Identify Fungi From the Indoor Environment as an Added Value to the Classical Morphology-Based Identification Tool
microfungi; yeasts; identification; microscopy; MALDI-TOF MS Abstract: Introduction: During the last decades, molds in the indoor environment have raised concern regarding their potential adverse health ...