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Unravelling COVID-19 social mortality patterns using conditional inference tree algorithm
compared to survival; 3) COVID-19 specific deaths compared to all OCOD. Methods Multivariable logistic regression models were fitted for the three outcomes. In addition, we computed conditional inference ...
EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders, 2024
in the study and how is exposure quantified as a metric? Exposure assessment: how to measure or model exposure to the risk factors in the population? Identification of risk-outcome pairs: which health ...
Comparing the applicability of de facto population markers for spatiotemporal trend analysis in wastewater-based epidemiology
(|r| ≤ 0.46) were found with the strongest correlation for MDMA (rs = −0.46), and the lowest for Pepper Mild Mottle Virus (rs = 0.03). A random forest regression model was applied to one city to evaluate ...
Lifestyle predictors of colorectal cancer in European populations: a systematic review
Issue 1 (2024) Abstract: BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most prevalent cancer in Europe, with one-fifth of cases attributable to unhealthy lifestyles. Risk prediction models for ...
Personal characteristics and transmission dynamics associated with SARS-CoV-2 semi-quantitative PCR test results: an observational study from Belgium, 2021-2022.
an index case. Odds ratios for test positivity and high viral load in HREC were calculated based on the SQ- PCR result of the index case using logistic regression models adjusted for age, sex, immunity ...
Exploring anxiety and depression trends: insights from the BELHEALTH cohort 2022-2024 in Belgium
models on the 3,676 individuals who participated in all five waves. Results: Preliminary results indicated that more people were affected by anxiety in October 2022 (16%) compared to June 2023 (14%), while ...
Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination in Belgium
regression models to the individual level LINK- VACC data to disentangle the individual and municipality effects allowing to evaluate the added value of the availability of individual level data in ...
Exploring grants & actions for advancing laborabory and digital capacities for health emergency preparedness and response: be.Prepared
Preparedness Architecture for Infectious Diseases, be.Prepared, developed within the HERA-Incubator- WGS and HERA- BE- WGS projects and funded by the European Union, is a model of innovation. It seamlessly ...
Knowledge, perceptions and practices related to mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses: survey in Belgium, 2022
ESCAIDE, ECDC, Barcelona, Spain (2023) Keywords: Health Belief Model KNOWLEDGE Mosquitoes Perception Vector Borne Diseases Abstract: Background Effective preparedness for emerging mosquito-borne viruses (MBV ...
A proposal for further developing fatigue-related post COVID-19 health states for burden of disease studies
underestimation. A more comprehensive approach to modelling the disease burden from long COVID, in relation to fatigue, can ensure that we do not only focus on what is easiest to measure; which risks losing focus of ...