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QALY losses for chronic diseases and its social distribution in the general population: results from the Belgian Health Interview Survey
calculated for each condition, incorporating disease prevalence and health-related quality of life (HRQ oL) data (EQ-5D-5L). Socioeconomic inequalities, based on respondents’ socioeconomic status (SES), were ...
Changes in quality-adjusted life expectancy in Belgium, 2013 and 2018
and changes in QALE over time were decomposed into mortality and ill-health effect. Results. In 2018, QALE at age 15 years (QALE15) was 56.3 years for women and 55.8 years for men, a decrease from 2013 ...
Belgian population norms for the EQ-5D-5L, 2018
Keywords: EQ-5D Health inequalities health interview survey Health status health-related quality of life Multi-attribute utility instrument Population norms Visual analogue scale Abstract: Purpose ...
The impact of multimorbidity patterns on health-related quality of life in the general population: results of the Belgian Health Interview Survey
Dirk De Bacquer; Sophie Vandepitte; Delphine De Smedt Source: Quality of Life Research, Volume 31, Number 565 (2022) Keywords: Chronic disease EQ-5D health-related quality of life multimorbidity ...
Health expectancies in the European Union: same concept, different methods, different results
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Volume 75, Issue 8 (2021) Keywords: burden of disease Health expectancies Healthy Life Years Abstract: Background Healthy life expectancy (HLE) is a population ...
Population vulnerability to COVID-19 in Europe: a burden of disease analysis
COVID-19 by using estimates of population age structure and YLD for health conditions linked to severe illness from COVID-19. Methods Population and YLD estimates from GBD 2017 were extracted for 45 ...
Potential impact of reduced tobacco use on life and health expectancies in Belgium
from the Belgian Health Interview Survey 2013 were used to estimate smoking and disability prevalence. Disability was based on the Global Activity Limitation Indicator. We used DYNAMO- HIA to quantify ...