<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nienke Schutte</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marlies Saelaert</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Petronille Bogaert</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Karin De Ridder</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Herman Van Oyen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Johan Van der Heyden</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Brecht Devleesschauwer</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Opportunities for a population-based cohort in Belgium</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Archives of Public Health</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cohort</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Health information</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">population health</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2022</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jan-12-2022</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">80</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Population-based cohorts allow providing answers to a wide range of policy-relevant research questions. In Belgium, existing cohort-like initiatives are limited by their focus on specific population groups or specific topics, or they lack a true longitudinal design. Since 2016, consultations and deliberative processes have been set up to explore the opportunities for a population-based cohort in Belgium. Through these processes, several recommendations emerged to pave the way forward – i.e., to facilitate the establishment of administrative linkages, increase digitalisation, secure long-term financial and organisational efforts, establish a consortium of the willing, and identify and tackle ethical and legal bottlenecks. This comment summarizes these recommendations, as these opportunities should be explored in depth to consolidate the existing collaborations between different stakeholders, and refers to current initiatives that can further facilitate the establishment of a Belgian population-based cohort and, more generally, administrative and health data linkage and reuse for research and policy-making.&lt;/p&gt;
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