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Human health and economic impact of neurocysticercosis in Uganda
reference year. Uncertainty was propagated using 100,000 Monte Carlo simulations. Results In 2010, NCC was estimated to cause more than 9000 (CI: 7685–11,071) new cases of epilepsy and nearly 1500 new cases ...
Risk factors and their contribution to population health in the European Union (EU-28) countries in 2007 and 2017
burden of disease network European Union Global Burden of Disease Study Risk Factors Abstract: Background The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study has generated a wealth of data on death and disability ...
The burden of legionnaires' disease in Belgium, 2013 to 2017.
Surveillance commonly underestimates the true incidence as not all cases are laboratory confirmed and reported to public health authorities. The aim of this study was to present indicators for the impact of LD ...
Adjusting for comorbidity in incidence-based DALY calculations: an individual-based modeling approach
of this study was to develop an individual-based modelling (IBM) approach to adjust incidence-based disease burden estimation for multimorbidity that allows simulating hypothetical individuals and ...
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 ...
Population vulnerability to COVID-19 in Europe: a burden of disease analysis
Disability (YLD) from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study help to characterise the extent of these effects. Our aim was to identify the countries across Europe that have populations at highest risk from ...
Global burden of intellectual disability resulting from dietary exposure to lead, 2015
notable effects are those that occur on the nervous system. This is particularly the case in the exposure to the fetus, infant and child. Infants and children generally have higher lead exposures on a body ...
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 ...
The health and economic impact of acute gastroenteritis in Belgium, 2010-2014
the societal health and economic impact of AGE. We conducted a retrospective study using mortality and cause-of-death data, hospital data, primary care data, health interview survey data and other ...
High Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum Infection in Asymptomatic Individuals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with 14 million cases reported by the WHO Malaria Report in 2014. Asymptomatic malaria cases are known to be prevalent in endemic areas and are generally untreated, resulting ...