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Measuring small-area level deprivation in Belgium: The Belgian Index of Multiple Deprivation

has been mostly captured through simple and univariate measures such as low income or poor educational attainment in research on health and social inequalities in Belgium. This paper presents a shift ...

Polypharmacy and health-related quality of life/psychological distress among patients with chronic disease

scores, SF-12 physical component scores (PCS), SF-12 mental component scores (MCS), and HADS anxiety and depression subscales. In the final regression model adjusting for age, sex, educational attainment ...

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 ...

Food insecurity and its association with changes in nutritional habits among adults during the COVID-19 confinement measures in Belgium.

salted snack consumption or weight as dependent variables and food insecurity indicators as independent variables, adjusted for gender, household composition, educational attainment and household income. ...

Monitoring health inequalities when the socio-economic composition changes: are the slope and relative indices of inequality appropriate? Results of a simulation study

CONCLUSION: If improving the educational attainment is part of a policy, an upwards shift of EL should be assessed as a progress; however the RII, and to a lesser extent the SII, frequently translate an ...

Contribution of chronic diseases to educational disparity in disability in France: results from the cross-sectional “disability-health” survey

Nusselder Source: Archives of Public Health, Volume 77 (2019) Keywords: attribution method chronic diseases DISABILITY educational attainment GALI Global activity limitation Indicator Socioeconomic status ...

Educational inequalities in leisure-time physical activity in 15 European countries.

overall prevalence of a low level of LTPA were observed. However, a low level of LTPA was always more common among those of lower educational attainment. The educational inequalities in a low level of LTPA ...

Interviewer variability in response rates in the Belgian Health Interview Survey

during the fieldwork. The household database was merged with data on the interviewer’s gender, age and educational attainment. Non-reponse was explored by using multilevel logistic regression models with ...

Does the association between smoking and mortality differ by socioeconomic status?

interaction was not statistically significant. Our results support the hypothesis that educational attainment does not substantially influence the association between smoking and mortality. Service:  ...

Does the association between smoking and mortality differ by educational level?

heavy smokers with intermediate levels of education. Also here the interaction was not statistically significant. Our results support the hypothesis that educational attainment does not substantially ...

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