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Human psittacosis: a review with emphasis on surveillance in Belgium.
infection to severe atypical pneumonia and systemic disease. This paper reviews new knowledge on psittacosis, its legal and regulatory aspects and presents epidemiological data on psittacosis in Belgium. In ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to gender disparities in health expectancies in Belgium, 2001, 2004 and 2008
contribution of chronic conditions to gender differences in disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) and life expectancy with disability (LED) in Belgium in 2001, 2004 and 2008. Methods Data on disability and ...
European all-cause excess and influenza-attributable mortality in the 2017/18 season: should the burden of influenza B be reconsidered?
mortality was estimated using the FluMOMO algorithm, incorporating influenza activity based on clinical and virological surveillance data, and adjusting for extreme temperatures. Results Excess mortality was ...
Contribution of chronic diseases to educational disparity in disability in France: results from the cross-sectional “disability-health” survey
prevalence and of the disabling impact of chronic conditions to educational disparities. Methods Data of the 2008–09 Disability Health Survey were examined (N = 23,348). The disability indicator was the Global ...
Incidence estimation from sentinel surveillance data; a simulation study and application to data from the Belgian laboratory sentinel surveillance
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Toon Braeye; Sophie Quoilin; Hens, Niel Source: BMC Public Health, Volume 19, Issue 1 (2019) Health Topics: Health and disease monitoring Surveillance de la santé et des maladies Ziekten en gezo ...
The value of seroprevalence data as surveillance tool for Lyme borreliosis in the general population: the experience of Belgium
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Tinne Lernout; Benoît Kabamba-Mukadi; Saegeman, Veroniek; Marie Tré-Hardy; Morgane de Laveleye; Tommi Asikainen; Ram Benny Dessau; Sophie Quoilin; Amber Litzroth Source: BMC Public Health, Volume ...
Global burden of intellectual disability resulting from prenatal exposure to methylmercury, 2015
data on the distribution of maternal hair Hg concentrations. The country-specific incidence of MeHg-associated ID was calculated, and a random effects model was used to impute the incidence for countries ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to smoking differences in life expectancy with and without disability in Belgium
(DFLE). We further estimated the contribution of disability and mortality and their causes to differences in LED and DFLE by smoking. Methods Data on disability, chronic conditions, and smoking from 17 148 ...
Towards a sustainable EU health information system infrastructure: A consensus driven approach.
quality and comparable data for purposes of research and policy making, and focus its activities around generating, managing, exchanging and translating health information. CONCLUSION: A momentum has been ...
Towards a sustainable EU health information system infrastructure: A consensus driven approach.
quality and comparable data for purposes of research and policy making, and focus its activities around generating, managing, exchanging and translating health information. CONCLUSION: A momentum has been ...