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EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders
according to a coherent framework. To tackle this objective, the disease burden attributable to environmental stressors is estimated using comparative risk assessment (CRA). As this method determines the ...
Health and economic burden of Campylobacter
plays an increasingly important and accepted role in food safety decision making. Burden assessment is a top–down approach that uses available epidemiological data, for example, generated through ...
The health and economic burden of haemophilia in Belgium: a rare, expensive and challenging disease
healthy life years lost due to living with disability and dying prematurely. An incidence perspective was used in line with World Health Organization recommendations. The economic burden calculated from ...
Quantifying burden of disease to support public health policy in Belgium: opportunities and constraints
DALY s were to be used for guiding health policy, a more systematic approach is required. By integrating DALY s in the current data generating systems, comparable estimates, rooted in recent local data, ...
Cost-DALY comparison of hip replacement care in 12 Belgian hospitals
hip replacement treatment in Belgian hospitals. This objective study uses a cost-disability-adjusted life years (DALY s) ratio to propose a comparison of hip replacement surgery among 12 ...