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The Belgian health examination survey: objectives, design and methods.
blood pressure and for people aged 50 years and older handgrip strength and 3) a collection of blood and urine samples. The BELHES followed as much as possible the guidelines provided in the framework of ...
Primary palliative care for older people in three European countries: a mortality follow-back quality study
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Kim de Nooijer; Pivodic, Lara; Deliens, Luc; Miccinesi, Guido; Tomas Vega Alonso; S Moreels; Van den Block, Lieve Source: BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care (2019) Health Topics: Quality of he ...
Mixing mixed-mode designs in a national health interview survey: a pilot study to assess the impact on the self-administered questionnaire non-response.
to complete the web SAQ. Yet among those, only 78.5% (84/107) actually did. At the end, the overall (web and P&P) SAQ unit response rate reached 73.5%. In this study older people were less likely ...
Predictors of nursing-home entry for elders in Belgium
the strongest predictors of NHE. Public health action to reduce NHE of older people should first of all focus on preventive action at middle age which will reduce activity limitations at later age. Key ...
Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis
deaths and 874 541 (768 837-989 068) DALY s. The burden for the EU and EEA was highest in infants (aged <1 year) and people aged 65 years or older, had increased since 2007, and was highest in Italy ...
Quality of primary palliative care for older people with mild and severe dementia: an international mortality follow-back study using quality indicators.
Source: Age Ageing, Volume 47, Issue 6 (2018) Keywords: Dementia General practice older people Palliative Care primary palliative care quality indicators Abstract: Background: measuring the quality of ...
Palliative care service use by older people: Time trends from a mortality follow-back study between 2005 and 2014.
end-of-life care older people Palliative Care primary care trend analysis Abstract: BACKGROUND: The need for increased use and timely initiation of palliative care for all people, not just those who die with ...
Additional weighting for education affects estimates from a National Health Interview Survey.
the total study population aged 25 years and older. If education is taken into account this proportion rises to 40.3%. The use of post-stratification weights adjusting for the population distribution by ...
First HIV prevalence estimates of a representative sample of adult sub-Saharan African migrants in a European city. Results of a community-based, cross-sectional study in Antwerp, Belgium.
reported at community level (73%), 65.2% (CI95 %:32.4%-88.0%) of sub-Saharan African migrants were possibly undiagnosed. Being 45 years or older, unprotected sex when travelling within Europe in the last ...
End-of-life care for people dying with dementia in general practice in Belgium, Italy and Spain: A cross-sectional, retrospective study.
a higher proportion of older people with severe dementia in Belgium (55%) than in Spain (46 %) and Italy (45 %), and a higher proportion of patients living in care homes (57% vs 18% and 13%, respectively). ...