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What makes an epidemic a disaster: the future of epidemics within the EM-DAT International Disaster Database.
diseases, public health emergencies, and related data, followed by committee discussions with disaster experts. This approach aimed to identify appropriate definitions and entry criteria for archiving disease ...
Surveillance of COVID-19 mortality in Belgium, epidemiology and methodology during 1st and 2nd wave (March 2020- 14 February 2021)
both for the total period and for the second wave. International comparison and ranking of COVID-19 crude mortality rates are misleading because of very heterogeneous methods used (e.g. case definition ...
Establishing an ad hoc COVID-19 mortality surveillance during the first epidemic wave in Belgium, 1 March to 21 June 2020
an extended definition of ‘ COVID-19-related deaths’ in a context of limited testing capacity has provided timely information about the severity of the epidemic. Health Topics: COVID-19 Mortality ...