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Unraveling social health inequalities during COVID-19 in Belgium: the vital role of data linkages
data linkage is developed at the individual level to investigate the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization and the influence of various social and biomedical factors during and after the crisis. Data are ...
Establishing disease models for the Belgian national burden of disease study: challenges and perspectives
different severity levels (e.g., mild, moderate, severe). Disease models used in burden of disease studies primarily aim to document the considered health states, and do not aim at a representation of the ...
The burden of psoriasis in Belgium, 2021
Along progression in psoriasis management, objective evaluation of psoriasis burden is critical to track the trends at the population level. Key messages • Psoriasis is a common skin disease with ...
Unravelling COVID-19 social mortality patterns using conditional inference tree algorithm
migrants, and people with lower levels of education had higher odds of COVID-19 death compared to all OCOD; living in collectivities was identified by the CIT as the strongest predictor followed by age, sex, ...
The information layer: shaping data into meaning with interactive tools
meticulous methodologies guard against ‘data fishing expeditions’ that could otherwise lead to erroneous conclusions. Healthybelgium.be exemplifies our approach for deciding on appropriate levels of data ...
The data layer: the importance of sources critical appraisal
collected at regional or national level? Are there mechanisms for yearly or periodic updates? To establish the most accurate national prevalence estimates for each outcome, we often need to adjust for data ...
Persistent organic pollutants in human milk of Belgian mothers: levels, time trend and exposure assessment for nursing infants
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Mirjana Andjelkovic *; Ilse Van Overmeire; Joly, Laure; Poma, Giulia; Malarvannan, Govindan; Christiane Vleminckx *; Svetlana V. Malysheva *; Vanhouche, Martine; Joris Van Loco *; Van Nieuwenhuys ...
Linkage of individual-patient data confirm protection of prophylactic human papillomavirus vaccination against invasive cervical cancer
papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine (Cervarix, GSK, Rixensart, Belgium) (1). The study completes and strengthens the evidence of the high level of effectiveness of primary cervical cancer prevention by HPV vaccination ...
Metagenomics-based tracing of genetically modified microorganism contaminations in commercial fermentation products
* Source: Food Chemistry: Molecular Sciences, Volume 10 (2025) Keywords: Antimicrobial resistance food enzyme phylogenomics Strain-level deconvolution Abstract: Genetically modified microorganisms (GMM) are ...
Implementation of METROFOOD services in the Belgium node
Forum on Research Infrastructures) research infrastructure (RI), METROFOOD- RI, an European distributed- RI aimed at promoting scientific excellence via high-level metrological services in food and ...