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Burden of foodborne diseases: think global, act local
Epidemiology Reference Group Foodborne illness Abstract: National burden of foodborne disease (FBD) studies are essential to establish food safety as a public health priority, rank diseases, and inform ...
Adjusting for comorbidity in incidence-based DALY calculations: an individual-based modeling approach
of this study was to develop an individual-based modelling (IBM) approach to adjust incidence-based disease burden estimation for multimorbidity that allows simulating hypothetical individuals and ...
Reflections on key methodological decisions in national burden of disease assessments
across researchers and nations in their resources to perform themselves BoD studies and interpret the soundness of available estimates produced by the Global Burden of Disease Study. Methods BoD ...
Measuring disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to low back pain in Malta
in Malta in terms of disability-adjusted life years (DALY s) and compare to estimates obtained by the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study. Method The Maltese European Health Interview Survey dataset ...
Population vulnerability to COVID-19 in Europe: a burden of disease analysis
Disability (YLD) from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study help to characterise the extent of these effects. Our aim was to identify the countries across Europe that have populations at highest risk from ...
Superficial mycoses in Belgium: Burden, costs and antifungal drugs consumption
5, Number 508 (2020) Keywords: antifungal drugs consumption Belgium burden of disease Candidiasis Cost dermatophytosis Disability-Adjusted Life Years superficial mycosis Abstract: Background Monitoring ...
Global burden of intellectual disability resulting from dietary exposure to lead, 2015
Diet Disability-Adjusted Life Years Foodborne burden of disease Intellectual Disability Lead Abstract: Lead is a ubiquitous dietary contaminant that occurs in food because of natural and anthropogenic ...
Changes in health in Belgium, 1990-2016: a benchmarking analysis based on the global burden of disease 2016 study
of this study were to perform an in-depth analysis of the secular trend of Belgian health status using the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2016 study results for Belgium, and to compare these results ...
Melanoma burden by melanoma stage: Assessment through a disease transition model
been studied but little is known about the distribution of this burden amongst localised, node metastatic and distant metastatic stages. METHODS: Disability-adjusted life years (DALY) assesses disease ...
The health and economic burden of haemophilia in Belgium: a rare, expensive and challenging disease
Orphanet J Rare Dis, Volume 9 (2014) Keywords: Belgium Blood Coagulation Factors Cohort Studies Cost of Illness Hemophilia A Humans Abstract: BACKGROUND: Haemophilia is a rare hereditary haemorrhagic disease ...