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Sociocultural Influences on Food Choices and Implications for Sustainable Healthy Diets.

primarily the ideational pathways, such as identity, gender, religion, and cultural prohibitions, and their influence on food practices. We then provide guiding questions, frameworks, and a brief overview of ...

Validity of self-reported mammography uptake in the Belgian health interview survey: selection and reporting bias.

Renard Source: Eur J Public Health (2020) Keywords: MAMMOGRAPHY Reimbursement Mechanisms Self-reported Abstract: BACKGROUND: The validity of self-reported mammography uptake is often questioned. We ...

Brief assessment of (in)direct questions on domestic/partner violence in the Belgian HIS 2013-2018

(indirect) related questions as an appropriate tool to assess domestic and partner violence in the general population. A more direct approach in the HIS 2018 will be compared with the HIS 2013 ...

Mechanical transmission of African swine fever virus by Stomoxys calcitrans: Insights from a mechanistic model.

epidemiological investigations have raised questions regarding the role of haematophagous arthropods, in particular the stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans). In this study, we developed a mechanistic vector-borne ...

The Belgian health examination survey: objectives, design and methods.

trained nurses. The data collection included: 1) a short set of questions through a face-to-face interview, 2) a clinical examination consisting of the measurement of height, weight, waist circumference, ...

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

Besides the issuing of alerts that involve the use of NPS in the context of European and national Early Warning Systems (EWS), many questions remain. Who uses NPS? How and to which degree? Why? Which ...

Environmental exposures and health behavior in association with mental health: a study design.

participants. Therefore, data analyses will be conducted on different subsets. Data on air pollution and green space exposure is available for all BHIS participants. Questions on smoking and mental health were ...

Phylogeography of Human and Animal Strains: Genetic Fingerprinting of Q Fever in Belgium.

a different degree of apparent prevalence (1.93%, 9.19%, and 5.50%, respectively). In addition, and for the first time, it is detected in abortion of alpaca (), raising questions on the role of these animals as ...

Consumers' food choices, understanding and perceptions in response to different front-of-pack nutrition labelling systems in Belgium: results from an online experimental study.

cereals), as well as rank those same three foods according to nutritional quality, in the condition without as well as with FOPL. In addition, various questions were asked on their perceptions in relation to ...

Biological effects of radiofrequency fields: Testing a paradigm shift in dosimetry

relaunch the controversial question of non-thermal effects of RF. If true, such effects would imply to consider RF energy absorption/interaction in tissues, not as volume-averaged, but locally down to the ...

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