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Burden and Risk Assessment of Foodborne Disease
gastroenteritis, caused by intestinal infection by bacteria, viruses, or parasites. The actual scope of foodborne disease is however much broader than this. Intestinal infections with common pathogens such as ...
Changes in health in Belgium, 1990-2016: a benchmarking analysis based on the global burden of disease 2016 study
initial members of the European Union (EU15). RESULTS: Belgium performed significantly better in 2016 than in 1990 in terms of age-standardized (AS) Year of Life Lost (YLL) rates but not significantly ...
Health and economic burden of Campylobacter
Campylobacter. Estimates of the health impact of Campylobacter, quantified as the number of disability-adjusted life years due to acute illness, sequelae, and death, are now available at global and national level. ...
High Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum Infection in Asymptomatic Individuals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
in a significant source of gametocytes that may serve as reservoir of disease transmission. Considering that microscopy certainly underestimates the prevalence of Plasmodium infections within ...
The health and economic burden of haemophilia in Belgium: a rare, expensive and challenging disease
type to be conducted, and reflects the Belgian authorities’ growing interest for haemophilia as part of their priority planning for rare and chronic diseases. METHODS: A probabilistic model was developed ...
Quantifying burden of disease to support public health policy in Belgium: opportunities and constraints
Disease burden HEALTH POLICY Abstract: Background To support public health policy, information on the burden of disease is essential. In recent years, the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) has emerged as ...
A review of known and hypothetical transmission routes for noroviruses
Van Coillie; Uyttendaele,M.; Etienne Thiry Source: Food Environ.Virol., Volume 4, Issue 4, Number 152, p.131- 152 (2012) Keywords: 2010 a acute Affect aims an Animal Animals article AS Asymptomatic ...
The burden of cystic fibrosis in Belgium: a registry-based study
substantial distress on patient level. However, the specific impact on individual health as well as the national impact on public health remains to be elucidated. The aim of this dissertation is to quantify and ...
Impact of tobacco control interventions on health expectancies: use of dynamic modelling for health impact assessment in Belgium
expectancies, comparing the “business-as-usual” scenario with multiple alternative scenarios. Results: The “business-as-usual” scenario estimated that a cohort of 15-year-old men/women is expected to live ...
Development of a generic and open source Incidence-Prevalence-Mortality model for the assessment of chronic disease epidemiology
of the input variables vary continuously as a function of age, cubic smoothing splines were incorporated in DisModR. The DisMod() function in DisModR allows the user to compute the di erent ...