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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 ...
Global burden of cancer and coronary heart disease resulting from dietary exposure to arsenic, 2015
used the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates of food consumption in 17 country clusters, in conjunction with the reported measurements of total and inorganic arsenic in different foods. We ...
Changes in health in Belgium, 1990-2016: a benchmarking analysis based on the global burden of disease 2016 study
of this study were to perform an in-depth analysis of the secular trend of Belgian health status using the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2016 study results for Belgium, and to compare these results ...
Quantifying burden of disease to support public health policy in Belgium: opportunities and constraints
DALY s were to be used for guiding health policy, a more systematic approach is required. By integrating DALY s in the current data generating systems, comparable estimates, rooted in recent local data, ...