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Direct impact of COVID-19 by estimating disability-adjusted life years at national level in France in 2020
post-acute consequences, in 28 days (baseline) up to 140 days, following the initial infection. METHODS: National mortality, COVID-19 screening, and hospital admission data were used to calculate DALY s based ...
Evaluating the health and health economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on delayed cancer care in Belgium: A Markov model study protocol
events, contexts and settings. METHODS: A decision-analytic Markov model was developed for 4 selected cancer types (i.e. breast, colorectal, lung, and head and neck), comparing the estimated costs and ...
A multi-country One Health foodborne outbreak simulation exercise: cross-sectoral cooperation, data sharing and communication.
of crisis management plans, providing the opportunity to test practical intervention methodologies in a controlled environment. METHODS: The One Health European Joint Programme simulation exercise ...
Potential impact fractions of body mass index reductions on the non-communicable disease burden in Belgium using G-computation
reduction scenarios in the Belgian adult population. Methods: Data from the Belgian health interview surveys 2013/2018 (n=18 212) were linked with objective environmental factors based on the residential ...
Were SARS-CoV-2 self-tests used for their intended purpose? The experience in Belgium.
self-testing their place in the test strategy was evaluated. METHODS: We assessed trends in the number of self-tests sold, the number of positive self-tests reported, the proportion sold self-tests/total tests, ...
Burden of disease attributable to risk factors in European countries: A scoping literature review
disease and injury burden estimates attributable to risk factors are a useful guide for policy formulation and priority setting in disease prevention. Considering the important differences in methods, and ...
The analysis of cannabinoids in e-cigarette liquids using LC-HRAM-MS and LC-UV.
available to the Belgian population, a method was developed for screening of 17 cannabinoids and to quantify the major cannabinoids such as CBD, CBDA, ∆9- THC and ∆9- THCA. The latter was fully validated ...
Social inequalities and long-term health impact of COVID-19 in Belgium: protocol of the HELICON population data linkage
pandemic. However, the interoperability and the reuse of different data sources may pose a number of technical, administrative and data security challenges. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: This protocol aims to provide ...
Understanding sexual transmission dynamics and transmission contexts of monkeypox virus: a mixed-methods study of the early outbreak in Belgium (May–June 2022)
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Vanhamel, Jef; Laisnez, Valeska; Liesenborghs, Laurens; Brosius, Isabel; Berens-Riha, Nicole; Vanbaelen, Thibaut; Kenyon, Chris; Vercauteren, Koen; Laga, Marie; Hammami, Naïma; Lambricht, Oriane; ...
COVID-19 mortality, excess mortality, deaths per million and infection fatality ratio, Belgium, 9 March 2020 to 28 June 2020
Belgium from 9 March 2020 to 28 June 2020, placing it against the background of excess mortality and compared the DPM and IFR between countries and within subgroups. Methods The relation between ...