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Sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belgium: a nationwide record linkage study.
single parents, one-person households and disadvantaged socioeconomic groups (with lower levels of income and education, unemployed). Overall, the sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities were ...
Attributing Ethiopian animal health losses to high-level causes using expert elicitation
high-level causes (infectious, non-infectious, and external). Separate in-person workshops were conducted with eight cattle, nine small ruminant, and eight chicken experts. Following the ...
Psychosocial factors associated with health-related quality of life in patients with chronic disease: Results of a cross-sectional survey
OBJECTIVE: The impact of various psychosocial factors (sense of coherence, illness perception, patient enablement, self-efficacy, health literacy, personality) is not fully understood across a wide range of ...
Interim analysis of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation and death using electronic health records in six European countries
recorded across the different sites throughout the study period. The highest number of person-months contributing to the analysis was observed for Belgium and Portugal, followed by Norway, Denmark, Navarre ...
The direct disease burden of COVID-19 in Belgium in 2020 and 2021
Burden of Disease Network consensus disease model for COVID-19 to estimate DALY s related to COVID-19. Estimates of person-years for (a) acute non-fatal disease states were calculated from a compartmental ...
Exploratory study of risk factors related to SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in nursing homes in Flanders (Belgium) during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
linear models and Bayesian linear regression. The present analyses showed that the prevalence of residents with dementia, the scarcity of personal protective equipment (surgical masks, FFP2 masks, glasses ...
Epidemiology of COVID-19 mortality in Belgium from wave 1 to wave 7 (March 2020 – 11 September 2022)
COVID-19 CMR (385 per 100,000 persons), while Walloon Brabant had the lowest (213 per 100,000 inhabitants). When taking the age structure into account, Brussels-Capital Region had the highest and Flemish ...
The evolving personal, professional and physical impact on healthcare professionals during three COVID-19 waves: A cross-sectional study
(March 2020) and second COVID-19 peak (November 2020), the measured personal, professional and physical reactions were significantly higher compared to before COVID-19. The third wave in April 2021 was ...
Burden of disease among older adults in Europe-trends in mortality and disability, 1990-2019
Disability-Adjusted Life Years Disabled Persons Europe Global Burden of Disease Global Health Humans Life expectancy mortality Quality-Adjusted Life Years Abstract: BACKGROUND: It is important to understand the effects ...
Self-uniqueness beliefs and adherence to recommended precautions. A 5-wave longitudinal COVID-19 study
precautions by others, and personal optimism, respectively) were controlled for. Comparative optimism for severe disease and for good outcome were associated with lower intended adherence if personal optimism ...