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Monitoring HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis programmes in the EU/EEA
standard, but intends to assist users in making informed decisions on the implementation of measurable indicators adapted to their local contexts. Health Topics: Health and disease monitoring Surveillance de ...
Educational inequalities in leisure-time physical activity in 15 European countries.
(PRR s). The PRR measured the risk of showing a low level of LTPA for a given educational level, relative to the highest educational group. RESULTS: Within Europe, large cross-national differences in the ...
Quantifying burden of disease to support public health policy in Belgium: opportunities and constraints
the most important summary measure of public health. DALY s quantify the number of healthy life years lost due to morbidity and mortality, and thereby facilitate the comparison of the relative impact of ...
Using multiple measures to assess changes in social inequalities for breast cancer screening
socio-economic position was defined by the educational level. Inequalities were measured both with pairwise measures comparing extreme educational groups (prevalence difference and prevalence ratio), and with ...
National surveillance of nosocomial infections in neonatal intensive care units in Belgium (Neo-KISS)
patient days) were calculated. To standardize the infectious risk for each NICU, potential confounding factors and additional risk factors were measured and the (adjusted) standardized infection rates (SIR) ...
Obstacles in measles elimination: an in-depth description of a measles outbreak in Ghent, Belgium, spring 2011.
describes the outbreak and evaluates the control measures and interventions. METHODS: Data collection was done through the system of mandatory notification of the public health authority. Vaccination coverage ...
From multidrug- to extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: upward trends as seen from a 15-year nationwide study.
augmented resistance, the treatment success rate improved from 63.0% to 75.8% (p = 0.080) after implementation in 2005 of improved surveillance measures and therapeutic access. CONCLUSIONS: Increasing ...
Variations in catheter-related bloodstream infections rates based on local practices.
surveillance serves as a quality improvement measure that is often used to assess performance. We reviewed the total number of microbiological samples collected in three Belgian intensive care units (ICU) in ...
Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care units: an international online survey.
guidelines for VAP prevention, and (2) measurement of process and outcomes, under the assumption “if you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it”; as well as attitudes towards the implementation of ...
Gender differences in healthy life years within the EU: an exploration of the "health-survival" paradox.
mortality advantage versus women’s disability disadvantage. METHODS: Disability prevalence was measured from the 2006 Survey on Income and Living Conditions in 25 European countries. Disability prevalence was ...