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Psychological distress and online advice-seeking in times of COVID-19: vertical and horizontal equity of an e-mental health strategy
countries. The extent to which online care can deliver services to all people (horizontal equity) according to their needs (vertical equity) is unknown. This study assessed whether online advice-seeking was ...
Trends in Hospital Antibacterial Consumption in Belgium (2017-2021): Evaluating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
applied country’s population as the denominator, a notable surge in AMC, particularly for broad-spectrum antimicrobials, was observed in 2020 when using hospital-specific denominators. This increase ...
Magnitude and determinants of excess total, age-specific and sex-specific all-cause mortality in 24 countries worldwide during 2020 and 2021: results on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from the C-MOR project.
COVID-19; Control strategies; Epidemiology; Public Health; Vaccines Abstract: INTRODUCTION: To examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, we estimated excess all-cause mortality in 24 countries ...
Magnitude and determinants of excess total, age-specific and sex-specific all-cause mortality in 24 countries worldwide during 2020 and 2021: results on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from the C-MOR project.
COVID-19; Control strategies; Epidemiology; Public Health; Vaccines Abstract: INTRODUCTION: To examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, we estimated excess all-cause mortality in 24 countries ...
Unlocking the genomic landscape: Results of the Beyond 1 Million Genomes (B1MG) pilot in Belgium towards Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI)
Belgium took part as a piloting country. B1MG developed a framework to enable all interested countries to self-evaluate the level of maturity of national genomic medicine practices following a common ...
Multinational collaboration in solving a European Braenderup outbreak linked to imported melons, 2021.
Braenderup outbreak cases (n = 348) had been reported from 12 countries in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU / EEA) and the United Kingdom (UK), including 68 hospitalised cases. With support from ...
Evaluation of an electrochemical sensor and comparison with spectroscopic approaches as used today in practice for harm reduction in a festival setting-A case study: Analysis of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine samples
Maarten Degreef; Margot Balcaen Source: Drug Test Anal (2023) Keywords: ATR-(N)IR drug checking electrochemical detection MDMA Mobile detection approaches Abstract: More and more countries and organisations ...
Social integration of people with non-psychotic mental illness over the last 2 decades: the widening gap in the adult population in Belgium
social integration Abstract: Purpose: Social integration is poor among people with mental illness (MI). In recent decades, many countries have developed policies to address this issue. It remains unclear, ...
Prevalence of drug use before and during imprisonment in seven European countries (2014–2018)
people in prison before and during incarceration in seven European countries and to compare it with the prevalence in the general population. Individual data collection was carried out between 2014 and ...
Benefits and harms of cervical screening, triage and treatment strategies in women living with HIV.
a range of screening strategies for women living with HIV in Tanzania, a country with endemic HIV. Assuming 70% coverage, we found that 3-yearly primary HPV screening without triage would reduce ...