Zoekresultaten - 40 results
Contribution of chronic conditions to gender disparities in health expectancies in Belgium, 2001, 2004 and 2008
and disability to gender disparities in DFLE and LED. Results Higher LE, DFLE and LED were observed for women compared with men in all years studied. A decrease in the gender gap in LE (2001: 5.9; 2004: ...
The obesity transition: stages of the global epidemic.
in 2016, among girls and boys, and from 3% to 11% among men and from 6% to 15% among women over the same time period. Our aim was to consolidate the evidence on the epidemiology of obesity into ...
A probabilistic approach for risk-benefit assessment of food substitutions: A case study on substituting meat by fish
substitution observed for young women in the child-bearing age and for the older generation, mainly men. This study provides further insight in how the health impact of substituting meat by fish varies between ...
Contribution of chronic diseases to educational disparity in disability in France: results from the cross-sectional “disability-health” survey
disability. Counterfactual analyses were used to disentangle the contribution of differences in disease prevalence vs. disabling impact. Results In men, the main contributors to educational difference in ...
Assessing factors associated with long-term work disability after cancer in Belgium: a population-based cohort study using competing risks analysis with a 7-year follow-up
follow-up, the men who were able to work could do so sooner. Being women, white collar, young and having haematological, male genital or breast cancers were factors with the bestlikelihood to be able to return ...
High uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) during early roll-out in Belgium: results from surveillance reports
between 29% and 73%. Conclusions: The uptake of PrEP in Belgium since the start of the roll-out in June 2017 has been high, and almost entirely limited to men who have sex with men, of whom 43% initially ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to smoking differences in life expectancy with and without disability in Belgium
decomposition methods. Results Never smokers live longer than daily smokers. DFLE advantage at age 15 of +8.5/+4.3 years (y) in men/women never compared with daily smokers was the result of lower mortality (+6.2y/+3y) and ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to disability in men and women in France
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Nusselder, Wilma J; Dagmar Wapperom; Looman, Caspar W N; Renata T C Yokota; Herman Van Oyen; Jagger, Carol; Jean Marie Robine; Emanuelle M Cambois Source: European Journal of Public Health (2018) ...
Prevalence of drug use during sex amongst MSM in Europe: Results from a multi-site bio-behavioural survey.
prevalent amongst Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) compared to the general population. Substance use, in particular polydrug use, has been found to be influenced by social and contextual factors and to ...
Clinical burden of hepatitis E virus infection in a tertiary care center in Flanders, Belgium.
liver pathology especially in middle-aged men with elevation of liver enzymes. Service: Maladies virales Virale ziekten Viral diseases Manuscript versions: DOI: ...