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Monitoring HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis programmes in the EU/EEA
(EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) over the last decade. However, there remain considerable disparities in the rate of decline and the burden of new HIV infections between countries and among ...
Health and economic burden of Campylobacter
Campylobacter is estimated to be the sixth most important contributor to the global burden of foodborne disease, and is consistently ranked among the leading causes of foodborne disease burden in high-income ...
Quantifying burden of disease to support public health policy in Belgium: opportunities and constraints
Disease burden HEALTH POLICY Abstract: Background To support public health policy, information on the burden of disease is essential. In recent years, the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) has emerged as ...
Premature mortality in Belgium in 1993-2009: leading causes, regional disparities and 15 years change
country with the lowest rate as reference; statistical significance was tested assuming a Poisson distribution of the number of deaths. Results The burden of premature mortality is much higher in men than ...
Burden of influenza, healthcare seeking behaviour and hygiene measures during the A(H1N1)2009 pandemic in France: a population based study.
Volume 12 (2012) Keywords: burden INFLUENZA population study Abstract: BACKGROUND: Influenza surveillance systems do not allow the identification of the true burden of illness caused by influenza in the ...
The impact of individual-level heterogeneity on estimated infectious disease burden: a simulation study.
BACKGROUND: Disease burden is not evenly distributed within a population; this uneven distribution can be due to individual heterogeneity in progression rates between disease stages. Composite measures of ...
Quantifying the burden of stillbirths before 28 weeks of completed gestational age in high-income countries: a population-based study of 19 European countries.
mortality. Currently, such comparisons include only stillbirths from 28 or more completed weeks of gestational age, which underestimates the true burden of stillbirth. With increased registration of early ...
Prevalence and seasonality of six respiratory viruses during five consecutive epidemic seasons in Belgium.
OBJECTIVES: Insights into the seasonality of respiratory viruses can help us understand when the burden on society is highest and which age groups are most vulnerable. STUDY DESIGN: We monitored six respiratory ...
Capturing respiratory syncytial virus season in Belgium using the influenza severe acute respiratory infection surveillance network, season 2018/19.
and burden evaluation in children and older adults, the two groups of particular interest for WHO. Health Topics: Health and disease monitoring Surveillance de la santé et des maladies Ziekten en ...