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Assessing the benefits of hypothetical air pollution reduction interventions on stroke in Belgium

on stroke is already well documented but there is a lack of methodological tools to provide actionable evidence on the potential health benefits of realistic interventions. This study demonstrates the ...

Data collection in pandemic times: the case of the Belgian COVID-19 health surveys

collection modes. This paper describes the methodological choices and results in terms of participation for the COVID-19 health surveys conducted in Belgium. Methods The COVID-19 health surveys refer to ...

Burden of disease attributable to risk factors in European countries: A scoping literature review

their impact on burden estimates, we conducted a scoping literature review to: (1) map the BoD assessments including risk factors performed across Europe; and (2) identify the methodological choices in ...

Evaluating methodological approaches to assess the severity of infection with SARS-CoV-2 variants: scoping review and applications on Belgian COVID-19 data.

and biases that researchers are confronted with and evaluate different methodological approaches to study the severity of infection with SARS-CoV-2 variants. METHODS: We reviewed the literature to ...

The potential of food environment policies to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in diets and to improve healthy diets among lower socioeconomic groups: an umbrella review.

Humans Nutrition Policy Socioeconomic Factors Systematic Reviews as Topic Abstract: Socioeconomic inequalities in diets need to be tackled to improve population diets and prevent obesity and diet-related ...

Estimating risk factor attributable burden – challenges and potential solutions when using the comparative risk assessment methodology

methodology is commonly used to estimate the share of the burden attributable to risk factors. The aim of this paper is to identify and address some selected important challenges associated with CRA, ...

Healthcare-associated infections in home healthcare: an extensive assessment, 2019.

two rounds had 21 and 23 participants, respectively. No standard definition was broadly accepted or known. Evidence on associated risk factors was impacted by methodological limitations and ...

Recommendations to plan a national burden of disease study

is a systematic and scientific effort to quantify and compare the magnitude of health loss due to different diseases, injuries, and risk factors with estimates produced by demographic characteristics ...

The burden of legionnaires' disease in Belgium, 2013 to 2017.

defined a surveillance pyramid and estimated a multiplication factor to account for LD cases not captured by surveillance. The multiplication factor was then applied to the pooled number of LD cases ...

The burden of legionnaires’ disease in Belgium, 2013 to 2017

Belgian statistical office were used. To arrive at an estimate of the total number of symptomatic cases in Belgium, we defined a surveillance pyramid and estimated a multiplication factor to account for LD ...

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