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Potential impact fractions of body mass index reductions on the non-communicable disease burden in Belgium using G-computation

scenarios, the proportion of diabetes cases prevented would be respectively 29.9% (SE 4.7), 4.2% (SE 0.77), 6.43% (SE 1.48), and 12.5% (SE 2.2). Conclusions: This study highlights the importance of overweight ...

Variation in smoking attributable all-cause mortality across municipalities in Belgium, 2018: application of a Bayesian approach for small area estimations

Bayesian hierarchical model Small area estimations Smoking attributable mortality Smoking prevalence Abstract: Background Smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable mortality and morbidity ...

Women's views on barriers and facilitators for seeking alcohol and drug treatment in Belgium.

users, as well as gender-sensitivity within prevention and awareness-raising campaigns, reducing the stigma and facilitating knowledge and awareness among women and society. Health Topics:  Lifestyle risk ...

Understanding New Psychoactive Substance (NPS) use in Belgium from a health perspective (NPS-Care)

unprecedented challenges to (drug) prevention-, careand harm reduction efforts. Similarly, research into drug use needs to reinvigorate and review its practices as well, to address this new situation. At present, ...

Potential impact of reduced tobacco use on life and health expectancies in Belgium

combining the prevention of smoking initiation with smoking cessation programs are the most effective, yielding the largest increase in healthy life years (1.9/1.7) and the largest decrease in unhealthy life ...

Impact of tobacco control interventions on health expectancies: use of dynamic modelling for health impact assessment in Belgium

all smokers quit” scenario, potentially reflecting the impact of new policies that combine smoking cessation interventions with strategies for preventing smoking initiation, yielded the largest increase ...

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