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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 ...
Burden of disease attributable to risk factors in European countries: A scoping literature review
occupational risk factors, which are more likely to use bottom-up approaches for health outcomes where disease envelopes may not be available. CONCLUSIONS: Our review also highlighted misreporting, the lack of ...
Integration of various dimensions in food-based dietary guidelines via mathematical approaches: report of a DGE/FENS Workshop in Bonn, Germany, 23–24 September 2019Abstract
optimisation is a suitable tool to formulate FBDG s finding trade-offs between conflicting goals and taking several dimensions into account. We identified a lack of evidence for the extent to which constraints ...
The increasing significance of disease severity in a burden of disease framework
DALY s. There is a paucity of data on how the population-level occurrence of disease is distributed according to severity, and as such, the majority of global and national efforts in monitoring YLD lack ...
Methodological choices in brucellosis burden of disease assessments: A systematic review
estimates (Years of Life Lost) in their assessments due to lack of data or the assumption that brucellosis is not a fatal disease. Only two studies used a model with variable health states and corresponding ...
A scoping review of burden of disease studies estimating disability-adjusted life years due to Taenia solium
of observational studies across populations and time periods; however, it is currently required due to the difficulties in diagnosing neurocysticercosis. Studies discussed that a lack of data was a key ...
Conducting national burden of disease studies in small countries in Europe– a feasible challenge?
occurring in a region or a country. Small countries usually face a number of challenges to conduct epidemiological studies, such as national BoD studies, due to the lack of specific expertise and resources or ...
The health and economic impact of acute gastroenteritis in Belgium, 2010-2014
Disability-Adjusted Life Years Gastroenteritis Abstract: Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) remains a common condition in both low- and high-income countries. In Belgium, however, there is currently a lack of information on ...
Development of a generic and open source Incidence-Prevalence-Mortality model for the assessment of chronic disease epidemiology
researchers when the epidemiology of a disease is unreliable or altogether lacking. This thesis was created in order to make an R package called DisModR that accounts for this problem. In particular, the ...