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Health expectancies in the European Union: same concept, different methods, different results

The HLE methods differ in definition, measurement and valuation of health states. While SPH- HLE relies directly on one question, DW- HLE relies on epidemiological data adjusted for DW. Spearman’s r, ...

Quantitative decision making in animal health surveillance: Bovine Tuberculosis Surveillance in Belgium as case study.

surveillance system in Belgium was questionable at the time of the study, this exercise highlighted that not only sensitivity but specificity also are key drivers of surveillance performance. The quantitative ...

Closing schools for SARS-CoV-2: a pragmatic rapid recommendation

were insufficient to mitigate the exponential rise of infections in October. Children were still receiving all lessons at school at that time and it was questioned whether this position was tenable. We ...

Determinants of adherence to COVID-19 measures among the Belgian population: an application of the protection motivation theory.

population, representative for sex, age, socio-economic status and province. The questionnaire included various demographic, socio-economic and health-related questions, and also drew upon the Protection ...

Conceptual causal framework to assess the effect of SARS-CoV-2 variants on COVID-19 disease severity among hospitalized patients

to assess the clinical impact of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants and answer questions that will be raised in the future. The framework shows the complexity related to causal research, the corresponding ...

Global Burden of Animal Diseases: A novel approach to understanding and managing disease in livestock and aquaculture

question: what should a system to measure the animal disease burden on society look like and what value would it add? Moreover, it aims to do this in such a way as to be accessible by a wide audience, who are ...

Morbidity Statistics: 2019 Pilot Data Collection Belgium, Final Report

questioned and there are some concerns regarding the compatibility and description of some of the proposed definitions. We propose an easy to read scoring system to evaluate the quality and comparability of ...

Does arsenic pose a health concern after consumption of clay products?

questions to answer relate to the bioaccessibility and bioavailability of the inorganic arsenic present, rather than to the As species distribution, which often receives most attention in standard foodstuffs. ...

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