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Years of life lost methods must remain fully equitable and accountable

Number 216 (2022) Keywords: European burden of disease network Years of life lost Abstract: How to estimate population health loss due to COVID-19 has been greatly contested. This has resulted in various ...

QALY losses for chronic diseases and its social distribution in the general population: results from the Belgian Health Interview Survey

assessed by estimating population attributable fractions (PAF). Results. For both years, the largest QALY losses were observed in dorsopathies, arthropathies, hypertension/high cholesterol, and genitourinary ...

Changes in quality-adjusted life expectancy in Belgium, 2013 and 2018

and changes in QALE over time were decomposed into mortality and ill-health effect. Results. In 2018, QALE at age 15 years (QALE15) was 56.3 years for women and 55.8 years for men, a decrease from 2013 ...

Belgian population norms for the EQ-5D-5L, 2018

scores and index values were analyzed using logistic and linear regressions, respectively, accounting for the survey design. Results More than half of respondents reported problems of pain/discomfort, ...

The impact of multimorbidity patterns on health-related quality of life in the general population: results of the Belgian Health Interview Survey

chronic conditions and HRQ oL (EQ-5D-5L) for a nationally representative sample. Linear mixed models were used to analyze two-way and three-way interactions of disease combinations on HRQ oL. Results ...

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

weight (DW- HLE), by sex, and comparing these results with LE and proportion of life spent in good health (% GH). Methods We performed a retrospective study in the EU28 countries, between 2010 and 2017. ...

Population vulnerability to COVID-19 in Europe: a burden of disease analysis

population-level vulnerability. Results Countries with the highest proportions of elderly residents were Italy, Greece, Germany, Portugal and Finland. When assessments of population-level YLD rates for COVID-19 vulnerable health ...

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

the impacts of risk factor changes and to compare the “business-as-usual” with alternative scenarios. Results The “business-as-usual” scenario estimated that in 2028 the 15-year-old men/women would live ...

Monitoring health inequalities when the socio-economic composition changes: are the slope and relative indices of inequality appropriate? Results of a simulation study

PAF. Second, we decomposed the effect on the three indices of a change affecting both the ELD and the MR s, into the contributions of each component. RESULTS: RII s and SII s sharply increase with p4 at ...

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