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Burden and Risk Assessment of Foodborne Disease
which are able to cause extra-intestinal disease, e.g., central nervous system manifestations due to congenital toxoplasmosis or cancer due to heavy metal exposure. In addition to the health impacts, the ...
Health and economic burden of Campylobacter
surveillance systems, to generate estimates of the health and economic impact of the concerned foodborne disease. In this Chapter, we review methods for quantifying the health and economic impact of ...
The burden of cystic fibrosis in Belgium: a registry-based study
Disability-Adjusted Life Years Mucoviscidosis Abstract: Background: Cystic fibrosis is the most common life-limiting autosomal recessive disease among people of European heritage. This rare disease is known to cause ...
Impact of tobacco control interventions on health expectancies: use of dynamic modelling for health impact assessment in Belgium
Years SMOKING smoking intervention unhealthy life years Abstract: Objectives: We aimed to investigate the impact of different tobacco control interventions on health expectancies, i.e. healthy life years ...
Development of a generic and open source Incidence-Prevalence-Mortality model for the assessment of chronic disease epidemiology
researchers when the epidemiology of a disease is unreliable or altogether lacking. This thesis was created in order to make an R package called DisModR that accounts for this problem. In particular, the ...