Résultats de la recherche - 43 results

Women’s health report for Belgium: addressing the information gap

put results into context to produce knowledge and recommendations for policymakers. Key messages • Developing a women’s health report allowed to highlight data gaps and underuse of existing data. ...

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

and face shields), and inadequate PCR test capacity were related to a higher seroprevalence. Generally, our study put forward that the various aspects of infection prevention in NH require more ...

The increasing significance of disease severity in a burden of disease framework

disorders, are amongst the leading causes of disability-adjusted life years (DALY s). For these causes, the contribution of years lived with disability (YLD) — put simply, ill-health — is what drives DALY s, ...

Introduction of WGS in food microbiology: advantages and challenges

expertise. Only by putting the WGS-based results, the epidemiological evidence and the strains metadata together can a hypothesis be formulated. Further care should be given to the communication of these ...

ESCAIDE 2022: Translating the COVID-19 epidemiological situation into policies and measures: the Belgian experience

Keywords: COVID-19; risk assessment Abstract: Background In 2008, in line with the WHO International Health Regulation, Belgium put in place a Risk Assessment Group (RAG) and a Risk Management Group (RMG) to ...

Healthy Data, an online citizen consultation about health data reuse – intermediate report

impact on citizens’ perceptions of health data reuse and the framework that should be put in place. Then, whether data is anonymized or not seems to have a fundamental influence over citizen support for ...

Occurrence of (suspected) genotoxic flavoring substances in Belgian alcohol-free beers.

Keywords: beer Belgium DNA Damage Flavoring Agents Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Abstract: The regulatory landscape of flavorings is evolving, thereby putting pressure on control laboratories to ...

Reliable and Scalable SARS-CoV-2 qPCR Testing at a High Sample Throughput: Lessons Learned from the Belgian Initiative.

available resources, putting in place a robust, validated, high-throughput, and decentralized qPCR molecular testing platform with embedded proficiency testing. We demonstrate how during an acute scarcity of ...

Flanders and Brussels join forces to tackle animal testing

animal experiments.” It does so by promoting the use of non-animal testing methods by putting the emphasis on sharing knowledge, and by bringing together experts from institutions and research fields with each other. ...

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