Résultats de la recherche - 39 results
Establishing disease models for the Belgian national burden of disease study: challenges and perspectives
different severity levels (e.g., mild, moderate, severe). Disease models used in burden of disease studies primarily aim to document the considered health states, and do not aim at a representation of the ...
Unravelling COVID-19 social mortality patterns using conditional inference tree algorithm
outcomes were considered in this study aiming at predicting sociodemographic (SD) and socioeconomic (SE) patterns of 1) COVID-19 specific death compared to survival; 2) all other causes of death (OCOD) ...
Illegal medicines observed in the EU
World Health Organisation distinguishes two categories of illegal medicines, namely substandard and falsified medicines. The latter group can however not be considered as a homogeneous group and could ...
Characterization of functional nanoparticles applied in face masks by STEM-EDX
TiO2 reported before. These three masks are considered to be most prone to partice release, based on the localization and amount of observed nanomaterial. STEM- EDX proves itself as a valuable ...
10 years of organizing L. monocytogenes enumeration proficiency testing in food matrices at the Belgian national reference laboratory.
% which is considered good even if for samples contaminated with L. ivanovii the successive rounds don’t show stable positive progress of the network. Health Topics: Listeria monocytogenes Listeria ...
Chemoprophylaxis of close contacts of invasive cases of haemophilus influenzae: a review
Belgium the number of invasive Hib infections decreased dramatically. Currently, the majority of invasive cases are caused by non-Hib strains. Considering these epidemiological changes, we wanted to find ...
What drives the long-term changes in airborne birch and grass pollen levels in Belgium?
time, primarily driven by a decreasing trend in grass pollen sources, which outweighed the impact of changing meteorology by a factor of ~10. — When considering only meteorology, a significant increase ...
Evaluation of European Pollen Reanalysis
(except for the changes in the long-range transport), so the model skills remained practically the same for the initial and final runs. The most-challenging genera was alder, which SILAM considers as ...
Modelling grass pollen load in temperate and Mediterranean European areas based on source spatial distribution
above the 90th percentile for each station were removed to get a more centred mean and to avoid anomalous years. The potential sources considered in this study were derived from the continental-scale ...
Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination in Belgium
a composite factor. The same indicators were calculated for the full Belgian population for comparison purposes. In a second step, a multilevel approach was considered by fitting hierarchical logistic ...