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Disability weights for infectious diseases in four European countries: comparison between countries and across respondent characteristics.
were constructed based on data from four European countries. In this paper, we evaluated if country, age, sex, disease experience status, income and educational levels have an impact on these DW s. ...
Mapping EQ-5D utilities to GBD 2010 and GBD 2013 disability weights: results of two pilot studies in Belgium.
METHODS: We conducted two pilot studies including respectively four and twenty-seven health states selected from the 220 DW s of the GBD 2010 study. In the first study, each participant evaluated four health ...
Fat-soluble vitamin intake from the consumption of food, fortified food and supplements: design and methods of the Belgian VITADEK study.
intake are needed to evaluate potential problems regarding inadequate intake at population level and to formulate effective public health and food safety recommendations. Assessing the intake of ...
Development and validation of a protocol for optimizing the use of paraffin blocks in molecular epidemiological studies: The example from the HPV-AHEAD study.
A consensus histopathology evaluation form was developed by an international panel of pathologists and evaluated for four indicators in a pilot analysis in order to validate it: 1) presence/type of tumor ...
Prenatal diagnosis and prevention of toxoplasmosis in pregnant women in Northern Vietnam: study protocol.
toxoplasmosis. This study protocol was developed to determine the seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis in pregnant women in Hanoi and Thai Binh, Northern Vietnam, and to evaluate the association with risk factors and ...
Educational inequalities in premature mortality by region in the Belgian population in the 2000s
relevant for policy-makers, as a tool for planning and evaluation. We analyzed the educational disparities by region for all-cause and cause-specific premature mortality in the Belgian population. Methods ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to functional limitations using a multinomial outcome: results for the older population in Belgium and Brazil
we recently proposed an extension to multinomial responses, since different disability levels are often investigated in surveys. This is the first application of the extended method to evaluate ...
Disability Weights for Chronic Mercury Intoxication Resulting from Gold Mining Activities: Results from an Online Pairwise Comparisons Survey.
evaluated in scenario analyses. A total of 105 participants completed the questionnaire. DW s for moderate and severe CMMVI were 0.368 (0.261-0.484) and 0.588 (0.193-0.907), respectively. Scenario analyses ...
CystiSim- An Agent-Based Model for Taenia solium Transmission and Control.
https://www.sciensano.be/nl/biblio/cystisim-agent-based-model-taenia-solium-transmission-and-control
slaughtered pigs proportional to their infection intensity. The model allows for evaluation of three interventions measures or combinations hereof: treatment of humans, treatment of pigs, and pig vaccination, ...
Impact of Chronic Conditions and Multimorbidity on the Disability Burden in the Older Population in Belgium.
Disability Evaluation Female health surveys Humans Male middle aged Musculoskeletal Diseases prevalence Respiratory Tract Diseases Abstract: BACKGROUND: The increase in longevity along with a high prevalence ...