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Estimating risk factor attributable burden – challenges and potential solutions when using the comparative risk assessment methodology
Source: Archives of Public Health, Volume 80, Issue 1 (2022) Keywords: burden of disease Comparative risk assessment Disability-Adjusted Life Years health impact assessment population health Abstract: ...
QALY losses for chronic diseases and its social distribution in the general population: results from the Belgian Health Interview Survey
rapidly rising, both in terms of morbidity and mortality. This burden is disproportionally carried by socially disadvantaged population subgroups. Quality-adjusted life years (QALY s) measure the impact of ...
Opportunities for a population-based cohort in Belgium
Source: Archives of Public Health, Volume 80, Issue 1 (2022) Keywords: Cohort Health information population health Abstract: Population-based cohorts allow providing answers to a wide range of ...
Methodological considerations in injury burden of disease studies across Europe: a systematic literature review
design choices that have been made in burden of disease (BoD) studies in injury populations is not available. The aim of this systematic literature review was to identify existing injury BoD studies ...
Variation in smoking attributable all-cause mortality across municipalities in Belgium, 2018: application of a Bayesian approach for small area estimations
educational level and municipality of residence were obtained from the BHIS 2018. A Bayesian hierarchical Besag-York-Mollie (BYM) model was used to model the logit transformation of the design-based ...
Association between temperature and natural mortality in Belgium: Effect modification by individual characteristics and residential environment
and black carbon) to identify more vulnerable population subgroups. Results Based on 307,859 deaths from natural causes, we found significant cold effect (OR = 1.42, 95% CI: 1.30–1.57) and heat effect ...
Assessing the burden of Taenia solium cysticercosis in Burundi, 2020
cysticercosis for Burundi’s population. We urge policy makers to use these evidence-based results and put T. solium cysticercosis on the public health agenda of the country. This study recommends urgent action to ...
Strategy and Performance Evaluation of Low-Frequency Variant Calling for SARS-CoV-2 Using Targeted Deep Illumina Sequencing
consensus genome sequence of the most abundant strain is taken into consideration for analysis, but multiple variant strains are now circulating in the population. Consequently, in diagnostic samples, ...
Prevalence of Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies and Potential Determinants among the Belgian Adult Population: Baseline Results of a Prospective Cohort Study
Viruses, Volume 14, Issue 5 (2022) Keywords: SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; antibodies; seroprevalence; cohort; population-based study; Belgium Abstract: The prevalence of anti- SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and potential ...
Belgian population norms for the EQ-5D-5L, 2018
the Belgian Health Interview Survey, providing a new source of population-based self-perceived health status information. This study aims to estimate Belgian population norms for the EQ-5D-5L by sex, ...