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Assessing the validity of the Global Activity Limitation Indicator in fourteen European countries.

Quality-Adjusted Life Years Surveys and Questionnaires Abstract: BACKGROUND: The Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI), the measure underlying the European indicator Healthy Life Years (HLY), is widely used to ...

The effect of smoking on the duration of life with and without disability, Belgium 1997-2011.

lived with disability compared to (ex-)smokers. The objectives of the manuscript are (1) to assess the effect of smoking on the average years lived without disability (Disability Free Life Expectancy ...

The health and economic burden of haemophilia in Belgium: a rare, expensive and challenging disease

in order to estimate the lifetime haemophilia burden for the 2011 birth-year Belgian cohort. The health burden was initially expressed in terms of disability-adjusted life years (DALY s), the number of ...

Quantifying burden of disease to support public health policy in Belgium: opportunities and constraints

Niko Speybroeck Source: BMC Public Health, Volume 14, Issue 1196 (2014) URL: http://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1196 Keywords: Belgium Disability-Adjusted Life Years ...

The impact of individual-level heterogeneity on estimated infectious disease burden: a simulation study.

disease burden that are based on disease progression models, such as the disability-adjusted life year (DALY), are widely used to quantify the current and future burden of infectious diseases. Our goal was ...

Cost-DALY comparison of hip replacement care in 12 Belgian hospitals

Pirson Source: BMJ Open Qual, Volume 10, Issue 3 (2021) Keywords: Disability-Adjusted Life Years Hip replacement Abstract: BACKGROUND: In view of the expected increase in expenditure on hip replacement ...

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