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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on delayed care of cardiovascular diseases in Europe: a systematic review
leading cause of death worldwide. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted healthcare systems, causing delays in essential medical services, and potentially impacting CVD treatment. ...
Outbreak of Corynebacterium diphtheriae among asylum seekers in Belgium in 2022: operational challenges and lessons learnt.
between end December 2022 and May 2023. Unfortunately, though, three cases of respiratory diphtheria, including one death, were reported at the end of June 2023. To prevent future outbreaks, specific ...
Monitoring COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 hospitalisation and death using electronic health registries in ≥65 years old population in six European countries, October 2021 to November 2022.
Humans REGISTRIES Vaccine Efficacy Abstract: BACKGROUND: Within the ECDC- VEBIS project, we prospectively monitored vaccine effectiveness (VE) against COVID-19 hospitalisation and COVID-19-related death ...
A comparison of COVID-19 incidence rates across six European countries in 2021.
such as death or hospitalisation will be important to improving international comparisons. Health Topics: Coronavirus Coronavirus Coronavirus Service: Épidémiologie des maladies infectieuses ...
The direct disease burden of COVID-19 in Belgium in 2020 and 2021
model, using Belgian seroprevalence, social contact, hospital, and intensive care admission data, (b) deaths were sourced from the national COVID-19 mortality surveillance, and (c) chronic post-acute ...
Investigating years of life lost in Belgium, 2004-2019: A comprehensive analysis using a probabilistic redistribution approach
online tool https://burden.sciensano.be/shiny/mortality2019/. CONCLUSION: The redistribution process assigned a specific cause of death to all deaths in Belgium, making it possible to investigate the full ...
Direct impact of COVID-19 by estimating disability-adjusted life years at national level in France in 2020
defining COVID-19 deaths using the underlying, and associated, cause of death. RESULTS: In 2020, the estimated DALY s due to COVID-19 in France were 990 710 (1472 per 100 000), with 99% of burden due to ...
Integrating human papillomavirus testing as a point-of care service using GeneXpert platforms: Findings and lessons from a Kenyan pilot study (2019-2020).
340,000 deaths in 2020. In Kenya, it is the leading cause of cancer deaths, with over 3,000 women dying in 2020 alone. Both the Kenyan cancer screening guidelines and the World Health Organization’s Global ...
Epidemiology of COVID-19 mortality in Belgium from wave 1 to wave 7 (March 2020 – 11 September 2022)
surveillance of COVID-19 mortality, the observations on the first seven waves combined of the epidemic in Belgium (01/03/2020 – 11/09/2022) are as follows: Waves 66.8% of the COVID-19 deaths occurred during the ...
COVID-19 mortality, excess mortality, deaths per million and infection fatality ratio, Belgium, 9 March 2020 to 28 June 2020
Keywords: COVID-19 Excess mortality nursing homes Abstract: Background COVID-19 mortality, excess mortality, deaths per million population (DPM), infection fatality ratio (IFR) and case fatality ratio (CFR) ...