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Assessing factors associated with long-term work disability after cancer in Belgium: a population-based cohort study using competing risks analysis with a 7-year follow-up.
De Brouwer, Christophe Source: BMJ Open, Volume 8, Issue 2 (2018) Keywords: ADOLESCENT Adult Belgium Cancer Survivors Disability Evaluation Disabled Persons Female Follow-Up Studies Humans incidence ...
Heat and health in Antwerp under climate change: Projected impacts and implications for prevention.
a maximum daily temperature of 26°C, or the 89th percentile of the maximum daily temperature series. The annual average heat-related mortality in this period was 13.4 persons (95% CI: 3.8-23.4). No effect of ...
Palliative care service use by older people: Time trends from a mortality follow-back study between 2005 and 2014.
was initiated. RESULTS: General practitioners identified 5344 deaths. Overall, palliative care service use increased from 39% in 2005 to 63% in 2014 (p < 0.001). The use of a reference person for palliative ...
Food-Borne Outbreak Investigation and Molecular Typing: High Diversity of Staphylococcus aureus Strains and Importance of Toxin Detection
and in healthy persons carrying enterotoxin genes encoding emetic SE s for which no detection methods currently exist. For one outbreak, the investigation pointed out to the food handler who transmitted ...
Multinomial additive hazard model to assess the disability burden using cross-sectional data.
Source: Biom J, Volume 59, Issue 5, Number 917, p.901-917 (2017) Keywords: Chronic disease cross-sectional studies Disabled Persons Humans Proportional Hazards Models Quality of Life Risk Factors Abstract: ...
Prevalence of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Europe: The Past and the Future.
with CNV were visually impaired (P = 0.016). Projections of AMD showed an almost doubling of affected persons despite a decreasing prevalence. By 2040, the number of individuals in Europe with early AMD ...
World Health Organization estimates of the relative contributions of food to the burden of disease due to selected foodborne hazards: A structured expert elicitation
subregions, depending on their experience in the region. The size of the 19 hazard-specific panels ranged from 6 to 15 persons with several experts serving on more than one panel. Pathogens with animal ...
Measurement equivalence of the Belgian health interview auto-questionnaire: paper-based versus web-based mode.
modes. However, health indicators based upon factual and objective items tend to have higher measurement agreement than indicators requiring an assessment of personal subjective feelings. A web-based mode ...
Disability Weights for Chronic Mercury Intoxication Resulting from Gold Mining Activities: Results from an Online Pairwise Comparisons Survey.
Persons environmental exposure Female Gold Humans Male mercury Metals, Heavy middle aged Mining poisoning Surveys and Questionnaires Visual Analog Scale Young adult Abstract: In artisanal small-scale gold ...
Letter to the editor: New metrics to monitor progress towards global HIV targets: using the estimated number of undiagnosed HIV-infected individuals as denominator.
targets for 2020 ‘90% of persons living with HIV diagnosed’ [4]. However, in countries where a large proportion of patients are in care, this ratio may be an insufficient indicator of testing and diagnosis ...