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The impact of shelf tags with Nutri-Score on consumer purchases: a difference-in-difference analysis of a natural experiment in supermarkets of a major retailer in Belgium
red/E (least healthy) to green/A (most healthy). This study evaluated the impact of ESL on consumer purchases, overall, and by food category. Methods: For 43 intervention stores (implementing ESL in the ...
Status and potential of bacterial genomics for public health practice: a scoping review
value, challenges, and needs related to its implementation from an epidemiologist’s perspective. Methods In this scoping review, a systematic PubMed search with forward and backward snowballing was ...
Global patterns in monthly activity of influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus, and metapneumovirus: a systematic analysis.
is needed to inform public health strategies and programmes for their control. METHODS: In this systematic analysis, we compiled data from a systematic literature review of studies published between ...
Integrative transnational analysis to dissect tuberculosis transmission events along the migratory route from Africa to Europe.
migration from the Horn of Africa (HA). In one of the first rescues of migrants from this region at the end of 2018, tuberculosis was diagnosed in eight subjects, mainly unaccompanied minors. METHODS ...
In utero exposure to parabens and early childhood BMI z-scores- Associations between placental ethyl paraben, longitudinal BMI trajectories and cord blood metabolic biomarkers.
utero paraben exposure on early childhood trajectories of BMI z-scores. METHODS: Placental concentrations of four parabens [methyl (MeP), ethyl (EtP), propyl (PrP), and butyl (BuP)] were measured by ...
The Isolation of Culturable Bacteria in Ticks of a Belgian Peri-Urban Forest Uncovers Opportunistic Bacteria Potentially Important for Public Health.
collections and analyses of ticks of different species, from various areas and using other bacterial identification methods would strengthen these results. However, they highlight the importance of ticks as ...
Unit Response and Costs in Web Versus Face-To-Face Data Collection: Comparison of Two Cross-sectional Health Surveys.
response than traditional modes, and this may increase bias in the measured indicators. OBJECTIVE: This research assesses the unit response and costs of a web study versus face-to-face (F2F) study. METHODS ...
Whole-genome-based phylogenomic analysis of the Belgian 2016-2017 influenza A(H3N2) outbreak season allows improved surveillance.
classification. Moreover, Bayesian inference via beast facilitated reassortment detection by both manual inspection and computational methods, detecting intra-subtype reassortants at an estimated rate of 15 %. ...
Automated digital reporting of clinical laboratory information to national public health surveillance systems, results of a EU/EEA survey, 2018.
surveillance methods in six countries, and replaced those in five. Barriers to M2M reporting included lack of information technology support and financial incentives.ConclusionM2M-reported laboratory data were ...
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence estimation in the adult general population in Belgium: a meta-analysis.
burden. METHODS: Recently performed HCV prevalence studies in the general, adult population were included in this study, based on well-defined selection criteria. A meta-analysis was performed to estimate ...