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Sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belgium: a nationwide record linkage study
Social inequalities vaccination coverage Abstract: Background Recent studies have identified important social inequalities in SARS-CoV-2 infections and related COVID-19 outcomes in the Belgian population ...
Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination in Belgium
a composite factor. The same indicators were calculated for the full Belgian population for comparison purposes. In a second step, a multilevel approach was considered by fitting hierarchical logistic ...
Magnitude and determinants of excess total, age-specific and sex-specific all-cause mortality in 24 countries worldwide during 2020 and 2021: results on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from the C-MOR project.
but the positive association was attenuated in 2021 as percentage of the population fully vaccinated increased. Stringency index of control measures was positively and negatively associated with excess ...
Unravelling demographic and socioeconomic patterns of COVID-19 death and other causes of death: results of an individual-level analysis of exhaustive cause of death data in Belgium, 2020
mortality in 2020 in Belgium. By using microlevel cause-specific mortality data for the total adult population in Belgium in 2020, three outcomes were considered in this study aiming at predicting ...
Multimorbidity and frailty are associated with poorer SARS-CoV-2-related outcomes: systematic review of population-based studies
COVID-19 for different health groups at the population level is essential for orienting public health measures. Adopting a population-based approach, we conducted a systematic review to explore: (1) the ...
Association between SARS-CoV-2 variants and post COVID-19 condition: findings from a longitudinal cohort study in the Belgian adult population
the number of infections with the Omicron variant being higher than with the Alpha and Delta variants, it is possible that the overall prevalence of PCC in the population increases, even if the ...
Aetiological and prognostic roles of frailty, multimorbidity and socioeconomic characteristics in the development of SARS-CoV-2 health outcomes: protocol for systematic reviews of population-based studies
lower socioeconomic status. Existing reviews focus on few, mainly short-term effects of COVID-19 illness and patients with single chronic disease. Information is also largely missing for population ...
The direct disease burden of COVID-19 in Belgium in 2020 and 2021
Disability-Adjusted Life Years Years lived with disability Years of life lost Abstract: BACKGROUND: Burden of disease estimates have become important population health metrics over the past decade to measure losses in ...
Direct impact of COVID-19 by estimating disability-adjusted life years at national level in France in 2020
objective of this study was to estimate the direct impact of COVID-19 in France in 2020, using DALY s to combine the population health impact of infection fatalities, acute symptomatic infections and their ...
Were SARS-CoV-2 self-tests used for their intended purpose? The experience in Belgium.
population: one among 27,397 people, held in April 2021, and one among 22,354 people, held in December 2021. RESULTS: The use of self-tests became substantial from end 2021 onwards. In the period mid-November ...