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The association between area deprivation and COVID-19 incidence: a municipality-level spatio-temporal study in Belgium, 2020–2021

Archives of Public Health, Volume 80, Issue 1 (2022) Keywords: Area deprivation Belgium COVID-19 incidence socio-economic inequality Abstract: Background In Belgium, current research on socio-economic ...

Evolution of educational inequalities in life and health expectancies at 25 years in Belgium between 2001 and 2011: a census-based study

Keywords: Belgium Disability-free life expectancy HEALTH EXPECTANCY Health inequality Life expectancy socio-economic inequality trends Abstract: Background: Reducing socio-economic health inequalities is ...

Correcting the self-reported BMI doesn't impact the socio-economic inequalities in obesity

Publication Type: Scientific poster, presentation or proceeding Authors: Sabine Drieskens; Stefaan Demarest; Sarah Bel; Karin De Ridder; Jean Tafforeau Source: European Public Health Conference, Stockholm (2017) Keywords: BMI VALIDATION Health Topics:  He ...

Educational inequalities in premature mortality by region in the Belgian population in the 2000s

75, Issue 44 (2017) Keywords: Belgium Educational inequalities Health inequalities Premature mortality Abstract: Background In Belgium, socio-economic inequalities in mortality have long been described ...

Comparison of socio-economic indicators explaining inequalities in Healthy Life Years at age 50 in Europe: 2005 and 2010.

in life expectancy at age 50 (LE50) and HLY50 between countries were defined as the difference between the maximum and minimum LE50 or HLY50. Relationships between HLY50 and macro-level socio-economic ...

Using mortality follow-up of surveys to estimate social inequalities in healthy life years.

BACKGROUND: The estimation of healthy life years (HLY) by socio-economic status (SES) requires two types of data: the prevalence of activity limitation by SES generally extracted from surveys and mortality ...

Educational inequalities in leisure-time physical activity in 15 European countries.

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to assess the patterns of socio-economic inequalities in leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) in the different member states of the European Union. METHODS: Comparable ...

Using multiple measures to assess changes in social inequalities for breast cancer screening

socio-economic position was defined by the educational level. Inequalities were measured both with pairwise measures comparing extreme educational groups (prevalence difference and prevalence ratio), and with ...

Socio-economic differences in participation of households in a Belgian national health survey.

Socioeconomic Factors Young adult Abstract: BACKGROUND: Socio-economic inequalities in health survey participation can jeopardize the extrapolation of the survey findings to the total population. Earlier ...

Contribution of mortality and disability to the secular trend in health inequality at the turn of century in Belgium.

Century Humans Interviews as Topic Life expectancy Male middle aged mortality social class Abstract: BACKGROUND: There is evidence that health inequalities by socio-economic status have persisted. We ...

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