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The global activity limitation indicator and self-rated health: two complementary predictors of mortality.

METHODS: We linked the 2001 Belgian Health Interview Survey with mortality and migration registers 2001-2010. The baseline sample included 8,583 individuals aged 15 years and older. Poisson regression models ...

Contribution of chronic diseases to the mild and severe disability burden in Belgium.

35,799 individuals aged 15 years or older who participated in the 1997, 2001, 2004, or 2008 Belgian Health Interview Surveys were analysed. Mild and severe disability were defined based on questions ...

Factors associated with excessive polypharmacy in older people.

excessive polypharmacy. METHODS: Data were used from the Belgian Health Interview Survey carried out in 2008. Each respondent was asked to show to the interviewer all medicines that he/she had taken in the 24 h prior to ...

How well do physical activity questions perform? A European cognitive testing study.

Physical Activity Questionnaire — Short Form (IPAQ- SF) and the US National Health Interview Survey — Adult Core Physical Activity Questionnaire (NHIS- PAQ) were tested in Belgium, Estonia, Germany and the ...

Development of the European Health Interview Survey- Physical Activity Questionnaire (EHIS-PAQ) to monitor physical activity in the European Union.

activity in a typical week. Cognitive testing revealed that the EHIS- PAQ worked as intended. The pilot testing showed the feasibility of using the EHIS- PAQ in an international health interview survey ...

Activity limitations predict health care expenditures in the general population in Belgium.

Indicator (GALI). This paper reports on the predictive value of the GALI on health care expenditures in relation to the presence of chronic conditions. METHODS: Data from the Belgian Health Interview Survey ...

Contribution of chronic diseases to the disability burden in a population 15 years and older, Belgium, 1997-2008.

aged 15 years or older who participated in the 1997, 2001, 2004, or 2008 Belgian Health Interview Surveys were used. Disability was defined as difficulties in doing at least one of six activities of ...

Assessing the validity of the Global Activity Limitation Indicator in fourteen European countries.

European Health Interview Survey (EHIS), covering 14 European countries and 152,787 individuals, were used to explore how the GALI was associated with other measures of disability and whether the GALI was ...

The effect of smoking on the duration of life with and without disability, Belgium 1997-2011.

disability and mortality were provided by the Belgian Health Interview Survey 1997 and 2001 and a 10 years mortality follow-up of the survey participants. Disability was defined as difficulties in activities ...

Using mortality follow-up of surveys to estimate social inequalities in healthy life years.

surveys and mortality records. METHODS: TWO SURVEYS WERE CHOSEN TO EXPLORE THE VALIDITY OF THE PROPOSED APPROACH: The Belgian Health Interview Survey (HIS) and the Belgian Survey on Income and Living ...

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