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Global Burden of Animal Diseases: A novel approach to understanding and managing disease in livestock and aquaculture

and from which to measure the impact of interventions. This paper is part of a process of scientific enquiry in which problems are identified and solutions sought in an inclusive way. It poses the broad ...

Roll-out of the Global Burden of Animal Diseases programme

production of greenhouse gases, environmental degradation, emergence of zoonotic diseases, and antimicrobial resistance. Furthermore, excessive consumption of some livestock products is linked to risk of ...

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

Mahieu; Piérard, D; Charlotte Michel; Stéphanie Jacquinet Source: Arch Public Health, Volume 78 (2020) Abstract: Background: Legionnaires’ disease (LD) is a severe bacterial infection causing pneumonia. ...

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

Keywords: burden of disease comorbidity multimorbidity Abstract: Background The co-occurrence of two or more medical conditions in the same individual is not uncommon. If disability-adjusted life year (DALY) ...

Reflections on key methodological decisions in national burden of disease assessments

become the key metric for quantifying burden of disease (BoD). BoD methodology is, however, complex and highly data demanding, requiring a substantial capacity to apply, which has led to major disparities ...

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 ...

Measuring disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to low back pain in Malta

Issue 1 (2020) Keywords: burden of disease Disability-Adjusted Life Years European burden of disease network Low Back Pain Abstract: Background Low back pain (LBP) is a public health concern and a leading ...

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

consequences from COVID-19. In Europe, this is of particular relevance with ageing populations living with non-communicable diseases, multi-morbidity and frailty. Published estimates of Years Lived with ...

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

cadmium. Ingested lead and methylmercury are causally associated with lifelong intellectual disability. Long term ingestion of arsenic is causally associated with an increased risk of cancer. Long term ...

Global burden of intellectual disability resulting from dietary exposure to lead, 2015

Diet Disability-Adjusted Life Years Foodborne burden of disease Intellectual Disability Lead Abstract: Lead is a ubiquitous dietary contaminant that occurs in food because of natural and anthropogenic ...

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