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Monitoring HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis programmes in the EU/EEA
panel of clinical, research and community experts from different EU / EEA countries and organisations. The result of this consensus-building exercise is a monitoring tool that provides countries with ...
Management of tick bites and suspicion of Lyme disease in Belgian primary care: compliance with national guidelines
an online questionnaire. Data from 2015 to 2020 were analyzed. Results: During the study period, 1618 cases were reported. In our sample, 47.9% patients were female and 52.1% male. 74.7% of tick bites ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to disability in men and women in France
https://www.sciensano.be/en/biblio/contribution-chronic-conditions-disability-men-and-women-france-0
Results: Musculoskeletal diseases caused most disability for both men (10.1%, CI: 8.1–12.0) and women (16.0%, CI 13.6–18.2). The second contributor for men was heart diseases (5.7%, CI: 4.5–6.9%), and for ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to gender disparities in health expectancies in Belgium, 2001, 2004 and 2008
and disability to gender disparities in DFLE and LED. Results: Higher LE, DFLE and LED were observed for women compared with men in all years studied. A decrease in the gender gap in LE (2001: 5.9; ...
Point Prevalence Study of Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Use in Belgian Acute-Care Hospitals: Results of the ECDC PPS 2017
interval (CI): 26.8-31.1%) and 7.1% (95% CI: 6.1-8.3%), respectively. The objective of this report is to present the results of the second ECDC PPS conducted in 2017 in Belgian acute care hospitals. Methods: ...
Development of a dot-blot assay for the detection of mould-specific IgE in the Belgian population
“major sensitization” defined as the strongest response against a single mould species was calculated. Results Intra- and inter-assay variations were both below 20%, and the positivity threshold of the ...
Association between variables used in the field substitution and post-stratification adjustment in the Belgian health interview survey and non-response.
techniques in the Belgian health interview survey 2004 are associated with non-response and assessed the impact of field substitution and post-stratification adjustment on the survey results. METHODS: Data ...
Premature mortality in Belgium in 1993-2009: leading causes, regional disparities and 15 years change
country with the lowest rate as reference; statistical significance was tested assuming a Poisson distribution of the number of deaths. Results The burden of premature mortality is much higher in men than ...
Using multiple measures to assess changes in social inequalities for breast cancer screening
indices measuring the total inequality impact at population level: the Population Attributable Fraction (PAF), the Relative Index of Inequality (RII) and the Slope Index of Inequality (SII). Results: All ...
Assessment of pfcrt 72-76 haplotypes eight years after chloroquine withdrawal in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
of uncomplicated malaria cases, as monotherapies had become ineffective in many parts of the world. As a result, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) withdrew chloroquine (CQ) from its malaria ...