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Public health in the genomic era: will Public Health Genomics contribute to major changes in the prevention of common diseases?
The lack of population-based research hampers the evaluation of the impact of genomic applications. Public Health Genomics also evaluates the benefits and risks on a larger scale, including normative, ...
Impact of rotavirus vaccination on laboratory confirmed cases in Belgium.
in Belgium in 2006 and recommended in the universal schedule in January 2007. We measured the impact of rotavirus vaccination through an active laboratory-based surveillance system. In 2008, the number ...
Impact of conjugate 7-valent vaccination in Belgium: addressing methodological challenges.
vaccine (PCV7) was introduced into the national schedule in 2007. The early impact of PCV7 vaccination on paediatric invasive disease was estimated by comparing pre- and post-vaccination incidence from ...
Mortality associated with in-hospital bacteraemia caused by Staphylococcus aureus: a multistate analysis with follow-up beyond hospital discharge.
impact of in-hospital bacteraemia caused by Staphylococcus aureus on mortality within 90 days after admission. We compared methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) with methicillin-susceptible S. aureus ...
Monitoring of all-cause mortality in Belgium (Be-MOMO): a new and automated system for the early detection and quantification of the mortality impact of public health events.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Cox, Bianca; Françoise Wuillaume; Herman Van Oyen; Maes, Sophie Source: Int J Public Health, Volume 55, Issue 4, p.251-9 (2010) Keywords: Age Distribution Aged Aged, 80 and over air pollution Bel ...
National influences on catheter-associated bloodstream infection rates: practices among national surveillance networks participating in the European HELICS project.
s participating for the time period 2003–2004. Univariate and multivariate risk factor analyses were performed to identify which practices had the greatest impact on CVC- BSI rates. A total of 526 ICU s from 10 ...
A bacterial population study of commercialized wastewater inoculants.
https://www.sciensano.be/nl/biblio/a-bacterial-population-study-commercialized-wastewater-inoculants
opportunistic or pathogenic strains. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY: The presence of opportunistic pathogenic strains in the inoculants might represent a risk for immunocompromised, the elderly or children. ...
PCDD/F levels in plasma of a belgian population before and after the 1999 belgian PCB/DIOXIN incident.
Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins Population Groups Time Factors Abstract: We evaluated the impact of the 1999 Belgian dioxin incident on the blood plasma polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin (PCDD) and polychlorinated ...
Validation of the CALUX bioassay for PCDD/F analyses in human blood plasma and comparison with GC-HRMS.
Herman Van Oyen; Goeyens, L Source: Talanta, Volume 63, Issue 5, p.1157-67 (2004) Abstract: Following the dioxin crisis of 1999, several studies were conducted to assess the impact of this crisis on the ...
The impact of hearing disability on well-being and health.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Herman Van Oyen; Jean Tafforeau; Stefaan Demarest Source: Soz Praventivmed, Volume 46, Issue 5, p.335-43 (2001) Keywords: ADOLESCENT Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Belgium cross-sectional studies F ...