Résultats de la recherche - 40 results
Evaluating methodological approaches to assess the severity of infection with SARS-CoV-2 variants: scoping review and applications on Belgian COVID-19 data.
variants on the severity of infection, different strategies can be used and different assumptions can be made, potentially leading to different conclusions. We propose four best practices to identify and ...
Monitoring HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis programmes in the EU/EEA
using additional research efforts). For all indicators, useful data sources are suggested, and recommendations are made for disaggregation along relevant characteristics to reveal PrEP-related ...
The influence of risk perceptions on close contact frequency during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
effects models were used to analyse the two surveys. Participants with low and neutral perceptions on perceived severity made a significantly higher number of social contacts as compared to participants ...
Burden of disease of COVID-19: Strengthening the collaboration for national studies
study periods between January 2020 and December 2021. Results: National studies dealt with various data gaps and different assumptions were made to face knowledge gaps. Still, they delivered broadly ...
New QSAR models to predict chromosome damaging potential based on the in vivo micronucleus test
performance. Five different splits were made randomly, each of which had a similar balance between positive and negative substances compared to the full dataset. All generated models were characterised by an ...
Identification of risk areas and practices for Taenia saginata taeniosis/cysticercosis in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
meta-analysis summarizes the prevalence, risk factors and treatment efforts made so far on T. saginata infections in Ethiopia, providing a detailed analysis of different factors influencing the varying prevalence ...
Risk to human health related to the presence of perfluoroalkyl substances in food
https://www.sciensano.be/fr/biblio/risk-human-health-related-presence-perfluoroalkyl-substances-food
animals, toxicokinetics and observed concentrations in human blood, the CONTAM Panel decided to perform the assessment for the sum of four PFAS s: PFOA, PFNA, PFH xS and PFOS. These made up half of the lower ...
The Belgian health examination survey: objectives, design and methods.
method and the methodological choices that were made in the BELHES. Methods: After a pilot period during the first quarter of the BHIS fieldwork, eligible BHIS participants were invited to participate in ...
Risk assessment of aflatoxins in food
grain-based products made the largest contribution to the mean chronic dietary exposure to AFB1 in all age classes, while ‘liquid milk’ and ‘fermented milk products’ were the main contributors to the AFM1 mean ...
Superficial mycoses in Belgium: Burden, costs and antifungal drugs consumption
antifungal in terms of doses (35.4% of the total doses) while fluconazole was the most delivered drug in terms of packages (29.1% of the total packages). More than 70% of the prescriptions were made by general ...