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Unraveling social health inequalities during COVID-19 in Belgium: the vital role of data linkages
challenges. This case study offers insights into the development of a highly sensitive linkage between COVID-19 hospital data and information related to social and health use in Belgium. Methods The HELICON ...
Establishing disease models for the Belgian national burden of disease study: challenges and perspectives
Journal of Public Health, Volume 34, Issue Supplement_3, Lisbon, Portugal (2024) Keywords: burden of disease Abstract: Abstract The Belgian national burden of disease study (BeBOD) was launched in 2022, and ...
The burden of psoriasis in Belgium, 2021
psoriasis was assumed to be zero, in line with the Global Burden of Disease study (GBD) 2019. We assessed three data sources containing information on existing cases with psoriasis in Belgium. Based on ...
Physicochemical characterization and genotoxicity assessment of nanomaterials using new approach methodologies
applied in the food chain, is particularly promising as illustrated in case studies examining iron (hydr)oxides applied as food additive, and copper oxides applied as plant protection product and feed ...
5.X.1. Co-designing for policy impact: Belgium’s monitoring & evaluation framework for cancer care & control
use a Pecha Kucha approach, with panelists sharing insights from the Belgian case study. The session will guide the audience through a story of the strengths and pitfalls of co-creating an M&E ...
Characterisation and Hazard identification of substandard and Falsified Antimicrobial Drugs. The CantiBio project 2016-2020
antibiotics Quality risk analysis Abstract: Studies on SF antimicrobials, one of the most frequently used medical products, circulating in Europe or other industrialized regions are very scarce. However, case ...
be.Prepared to increase Belgian integration of health data as a way of strengthening preparedness for infectious diseases
diseases The initial microbial study cases are Listeria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Neisseria meningitidis, Salmonella, Influenza and SARS-CoV-2. Here, we present an overview of the components of the be ...
Influenza like-illness surveillance using a Belgian sentinel network of nursing homes: results of October 2022 onwards
Following a two-year pilot study, an observational sentinel surveillance was initiated in October 2022. A geographically representative sample was established for Belgium using the number of NH beds as ...
Thirty years of epidemiological surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Belgian hospitals: are we able to keep on lowering the curve?
history (past 12 months). Results The incidence of MRSA peaked in 2005 (6.3 cases per 1000 admissions; Figure 1), but shows a decreasing trend ever since(2005-2022 incidence rate ratio (IRR)=0.915, 95% CI: ...
be.Prepared: An architecture to increase Belgian integration of health data as a way of strengthening preparedness for infectious diseases
integration of health data from different sources in order to strengthen preparedness for infectious diseases. The initial microbial study cases are: Listeria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Neisseria ...