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Reflections on key methodological decisions in national burden of disease assessments
across researchers and nations in their resources to perform themselves BoD studies and interpret the soundness of available estimates produced by the Global Burden of Disease Study. Methods BoD ...
The burden of legionnaires’ disease in Belgium, 2013 to 2017
population in 2017, the most recent year for which the necessary data were available. Methods Belgian hospital discharge data, data from three infectious disease surveillance systems (mandatory notification, ...
Measuring disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to low back pain in Malta
in Malta in terms of disability-adjusted life years (DALY s) and compare to estimates obtained by the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study. Method The Maltese European Health Interview Survey dataset ...
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 ...
Superficial mycoses in Belgium: Burden, costs and antifungal drugs consumption
mycoses in Belgium and to assess trends in associated antifungal consumption. Methods The burden of dermatophytoses (including onychomycosis), as well as skin and genital candidiasis, was estimated using ...
A probabilistic approach for risk-benefit assessment of food substitutions: A case study on substituting meat by fish
individuals. We therefore propose the use of probabilistic methods to model substitution and assess health impact distributions in risk-benefit assessment (RBA) of foods. We investigated the health impact of ...
Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis
disability-adjusted life-years (DALY s). METHODS: We estimated the incidence of infections with 16 antibiotic resistance-bacterium combinations from European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net) ...
Changes in health in Belgium, 1990-2016: a benchmarking analysis based on the global burden of disease 2016 study
with other European countries. METHODS: We collected results of the Global Burden of Disease 2016 study through the GBD results and visualization tools. We benchmarked Belgian GBD results with the other ...
High Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum Infection in Asymptomatic Individuals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
asymptomatic carriers and that PCR assays are currently recognized as the most sensitive methods for Plasmodium identification, this study was conducted to weigh the asymptomatic carriage in DRC by a molecular ...
Melanoma burden by melanoma stage: Assessment through a disease transition model
been studied but little is known about the distribution of this burden amongst localised, node metastatic and distant metastatic stages. METHODS: Disability-adjusted life years (DALY) assesses disease ...