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A One-Health approach to monitoring antimicrobial consumption in Belgium 2012-2021
(AMR), necessitating a unified “One Health” approach to combat this global threat. Shared metrics enhance intersectoral comparisons and coordination. This study compares AMC in the Belgian human (hospital ...
Sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belgium: a nationwide record linkage study.
August 2021. We integrated data from four national data sources: the Belgian vaccine register (vaccination status), COVID-19 Healthdata (laboratory test results), DEMOBEL (sociodemographic/socioeconomic ...
The overweight epidemic increasingly hits children of lower educated parents in Belgium
status (SES). Methods Data from the Belgian Health Interview Survey (HIS), a representative cross-sectional household survey conducted in 1997, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2013 and 2018, was used. Study participants ...
The Belgian physiotherapy reimbursement criteria for fall prevention fails in screening appropriately fall-prone community-dwelling older adults
analysis of data collected from a falls-related study in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at Ghent University to compare the predictive validity of the two algorithms. Sensitivity, specificity, ...
Developing evidence-informed indicators to monitor HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis programmes across EU/EEA countries: a multi-stakeholder consensus
pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) programmes between 2016 and 2023. Data on PrEP programmes’performance and effectiveness in reaching those most in need will be needed to assess regional progress in the roll-out ...
Risk Factors Associated with Severe RSV Infection in Infants: What Is the Role of Viral Co-Infections?
until February 2020, we prospectively included children up to 2 years old presenting with an acute LRTI, both ambulatory and hospitalized. We collected clinical data and tested nasopharyngeal secretions ...
Factors underlying COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake among fully vaccinated adults in Belgium
a documented COVID-19 infection) factors associated with the first and second booster uptake. Methods We used individually-linked data from the Belgian COVID-19 vaccine registry and the COVID-19 test database to ...
Factors underlying COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake among fully vaccinated adults in Belgium
data from the Belgian COVID-19 vaccine registry and the COVID-19 test database to determine booster uptake among the 18+ Belgian population having completed the primary vaccination course (PC). We ...
COVID-19 pandemic response in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion: methods, participation and recommendations of a longitudinal cross-border study
Cross border International health regulations Meuse-Rhine Euroregion Pandemic preparedness Prospective longitudinal studies SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic response Abstract: Comparative data collection in ...
Humoral and cellular immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 after third dose BNT162b2 following double-dose vaccination with BNT162b2 versus ChAdOx1 in cancer patients.
comparable to that in healthy individuals. Recent studies demonstrated that a third vaccination dose boosts these immune responses, both in healthy people and cancer patients. Due to the availability of many ...