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The burden of legionnaires' disease in Belgium, 2013 to 2017.

Surveillance commonly underestimates the true incidence as not all cases are laboratory confirmed and reported to public health authorities. The aim of this study was to present indicators for the impact of LD ...

Adjusting for comorbidity in incidence-based DALY calculations: an individual-based modeling approach

straightforward if all symptoms have same onset and duration; however, when the comorbid health states occur at different time points, an analytical solution to the comorbidity problem becomes more complex. The aim ...

The burden of legionnaires’ disease in Belgium, 2013 to 2017

Legionnaires' Disease Abstract: Background Legionnaires’ disease (LD) is a severe bacterial infection causing pneumonia. Surveillance commonly underestimates the true incidence as not all cases are laboratory ...

Population vulnerability to COVID-19 in Europe: a burden of disease analysis

70 years and above; and (ii) rate of YLD for COVID-19 vulnerable health conditions across all ages. Bivariate groupings were established for each outcome and combined to establish overall ...

Estimates of the 2015 global and regional disease burden from four foodborne metals- arsenic, cadmium, lead and methylmercury

Pacific B subregion. All of the metals were found to have high DALY s per case in comparison with other foodborne disease agents, including infectious and parasitic agents. In addition, lead, arsenic, and ...

Global burden of cancer and coronary heart disease resulting from dietary exposure to arsenic, 2015

indicate that, globally, each year the combined DALY s for all cancers attributable to inorganic arsenic in food are approximately 1.4 million with variation in global distribution based on population and ...

Burden and Risk Assessment of Foodborne Disease

who allows contamination, and the government agencies that monitor, investigate, and regulate all incur costs from foodborne disease. Accordingly, economists have been very interested in assessing the ...

Impact of tobacco control interventions on health expectancies: use of dynamic modelling for health impact assessment in Belgium

all smokers quit” scenario, potentially reflecting the impact of new policies that combine smoking cessation interventions with strategies for preventing smoking initiation, yielded the largest increase ...

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