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QALY losses for chronic diseases and its social distribution in the general population: results from the Belgian Health Interview Survey
Public Health, Volume 22, Issue 1 (2022) Keywords: Chronic disease EQ-5D Health inequality health-related quality of life Quality-adjusted life year Abstract: Background. The burden of chronic diseases is ...
Global burden of cancer and coronary heart disease resulting from dietary exposure to arsenic, 2015
estimated cancer potency factors for arsenic related bladder and lung cancers, and from US Environmental Protection Agency risk estimates for skin cancer to calculate the cancer incidence in males and females ...
Changes in health in Belgium, 1990-2016: a benchmarking analysis based on the global burden of disease 2016 study
Keywords: Belgium Benchmarking burden disease Abstract: BACKGROUND: Despite increasing of the Belgian health expenditures, several indicators related to population health showed poor results. The objectives ...
Quantifying burden of disease to support public health policy in Belgium: opportunities and constraints
the most important summary measure of public health. DALY s quantify the number of healthy life years lost due to morbidity and mortality, and thereby facilitate the comparison of the relative impact of ...
The burden of cystic fibrosis in Belgium: a registry-based study
922.4 DALY s in total (0.75 DALY s per patient). The YLD component consists of primary lung dysfunction (242.7 YLD s), non-transplantation-related complications (143.2 YLD s) and transplantation-related ...