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Integrating technical and political views for a sustainable European Distributed Infrastructure on Population Health.
Keywords: population health research infrastructure Abstract: BACKGROUND: Non-Communicable diseases (NCD) are the main contributors to mortality and burden of disease. There is no infrastructure in Europe ...
Changes in quality-adjusted life expectancy in Belgium, 2013 and 2018
oL and its dimensions to this trend. Methods. The Belgian Health Interview Survey (BHIS), a representative sample of the general population, included the EQ-5D-5L instrument in 2013 and 2018. The tool ...
Prevalence Estimation Of HCV Among People Who Inject Drugs In Belgium Through Respondent Driven Sampling, Capture-Recapture And Multiplier Method
capturerecapture (CRC). To obtain national HCV estimates, we scaled the proportion of PWID in Brussels to the total number of this population in Belgium in two existing drug treatment registers, which were then ...
Surveillance de la vaccination COVID-19 chez les professionnels de soins de santé en Belgique. Résultats intermédiaires jusqu’au 31 mai 2021 inclus
et structures collectives de soins). Fin mai 2021, la grande majorité des professionnels de soins de santé reconnus en Belgique avaient été invités à se faire vacciner contre la COVID-19. A la date du ...
Recommendations to plan a national burden of disease study
the use of simple measures of population health such as disease prevalence or life expectancy. The main objective to develop these recommendations was to facilitate those countries planning to start ...
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 ...
Monitoring health inequalities when the socio-economic composition changes: are the slope and relative indices of inequality appropriate? Results of a simulation study
inequality policies. As an upwards shift of the educational level distribution (ELD) can be part of those policies, we examine how such a shift affects the SII, the RII and the population attributable fraction ...
The use of the permanent sample (eps) to study the returnto- work after cancer. Challenges and opportunities for research
Approximately 40 % of new cancer cases are diagnosed every year in the working age population (20-64 years). Maintaining their quality of life results, among others, in their retain on the labour market. Even ...
Genetic Basis and Clonal Population Structure of Antibiotic Resistance in Isolated From Broiler Carcasses in Belgium.
Front Microbiol, Volume 9 (2018) Abstract: Human campylobacteriosis is the leading food-borne zoonosis in industrialized countries. This study characterized the clonal population structure, antimicrobial ...
The genetic structure of the Belgian population
Goetghebeur, Els; Jean Tafforeau; Stefaan Demarest; Marc Van den Bulcke; Herman Van Oyen Source: Human Genomics, Volume 12, Issue 1 (2018) Keywords: genetic variability population genomics public health genomics ...