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Linking animal and human health burden: challenges and opportunities
impact of poor animal health outcomes on human health represents a complex challenge. Using the disability-adjusted life year (DALY) metric as an endpoint, this article discusses how animal health outcomes ...
Unraveling social health inequalities during COVID-19 in Belgium: the vital role of data linkages
This workshop aims to provide a practical demonstration of the challenges encountered in a Belgian data linkage during the COVID-19 crisis, along with the strategies implemented to overcome these ...
The wisdom layer: how to support evidence-informed policymaking
Journal of Public Health, Volume 34, Issue Supplement_3 (2024) Keywords: Health information Knowledge translation Abstract: One of the returning challenges faced by public health scientists is bridging the ...
Establishing disease models for the Belgian national burden of disease study: challenges and perspectives
challenges linked to disease model complexity, clarity and completeness of the GBD disease model documentation, and availability of local data. Future perspectives will be discussed, including the improved ...
Burden of inflammatory bowel disease in Belgium, 2020
disorders resulting from non-infectious inflammation of the colon and gastrointestinal tract. With its global prevalence on the rise, IBD poses significant challenges to healthcare systems. There is a need ...
The knowledge layer: the role of key messages for translating data into meaning
generated by health information systems often remains siloed within the institutions that produce it, posing significant challenges to its reuse and interpretation. This fragmentation can result in ...
Contextual factors influencing the equitable implementation of precision medicine in routine cancer care in Belgium
challenges and suggesting solutions with an emphasis on the importance of comparative analyses of health systems, evaluation of health technology assessment methods, and the exploration of ethical issues in ...
Method development for analysis of nanoplastics in drinking water and milk using transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
Keywords: Drinking Water electron microscopy milk nanoplastics VALIDATION Abstract: The characterization of nanoplastics (NP s) in complex matrices remains an analytical challenge. The PlasticTrace project ...
EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders, 2024
to extract estimates for any part of the Flemish Region in a flexible manner. As collecting the necessary data on this fine-scale level poses a challenge, a parallel track of calculations was set up, ...
Ketamine, a new (or old) kid on the block: A comprehensive three-year spatio-temporal study in Belgium through wastewater-based epidemiology
remains difficult. This study employed wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) to address this challenge by analysing influent wastewater (IWW) from Belgium for biomarkers of ketamine consumption to evaluate ...