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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 ...
Global burden of intellectual disability resulting from prenatal exposure to methylmercury, 2015
for which no exposure data could be found. The global burden of MeHg-associated ID was quantified in terms of Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY s) using the World Health Organization (WHO) Global ...
Global burden of late-stage chronic kidney disease resulting from dietary exposure to cadmium, 2015
(GFR), increasing the risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD). In support of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s initiative to estimate the global burden of foodborne diseases, a risk assessment was ...
National public health system responses to diabetes and other important noncommunicable diseases: Background, goals, and results of an international workshop at the Robert Koch Institute.
Federal Center for Health Education (BZ gA) to develop a diabetes prevention strategy. In a two-day workshop jointly organized by the RKI and the BZ gA, representatives from public health institutes in ...
Prediction of Susceptibility to First-Line Tuberculosis Drugs by DNA Sequencing
Baoli Source: New England Journal of MedicineNew England Journal of MedicineN Engl J Med (2018) ISBN: 0028-4793 Abstract: BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization recommends drug-susceptibility testing ...
zDALY: An adjusted indicator to estimate the burden of zoonotic diseases.
used by the World Health Organization and the Global Burden of Disease studies. Many human diseases are of animal origin and often cause ill health and production losses in domestic animals. The economic ...
National public health system responses to diabetes and other important noncommunicable diseasesNationale Public-Health-Maßnahmen für Diabetes und andere wichtige nichtübertragbare Krankheiten
Federal Center for Health Education (BZ gA) to develop a diabetes prevention strategy. In a two-day workshop jointly organized by the RKI and the BZ gA, representatives from public health institutes in ...
Measurement equivalence of the Belgian health interview auto-questionnaire: paper-based versus web-based mode.
Surveys and Questionnaires Abstract: Before organizing mixed-mode data collection for the self-administered questionnaire of the Belgian Health Interview Survey, measurement effects between the ...
Development and implementation of a transversal NGS & bioinformatics platform at the Belgian Institute of Public Health
and bioinformatics for the diagnosis, surveillance, control and characterization of potentially harmful organisms; and to promote public health genomics by the effective integration of NGS and ...
Barriers and opportunities for return-to-work of cancer survivors: time for action--rapid review and expert consultation.
was used to organize a consultation with experts in order to discuss, validate and complement the results. RESULTS: Forty-three out of 1860 studies were included. We identified nine risk factors grouped ...