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A proposal for further developing fatigue-related post COVID-19 health states for burden of disease studies
from the World Health Organization. In practice this means that milder cases, that may be occurring very frequently, are not included in estimates of the burden of long COVID which will result in ...
Direct impact of COVID-19 by estimating disability-adjusted life years at national level in France in 2020
Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome SARS-CoV-2 Abstract: BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization declared a pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus ...
Burden of foodborne diseases: think global, act local
organizations and initiatives in supporting countries to develop capacity and conduct studies. Health Topics: Food-borne illness Burden of disease Voedseltoxi-infecties (toxi-)infection alimentaire (TIA) Fardeau ...
Estimates of the 2015 global and regional disease burden from four foodborne metals- arsenic, cadmium, lead and methylmercury
discusses them in the context of the World Health Organization’s initiative to estimate the global burden of foodborne disease. The results indicate that in 2015, ingestion of arsenic, methylmercury, lead, ...
Global burden of intellectual disability resulting from dietary exposure to lead, 2015
sources and pathways of exposure. Lead adversely affects a number of tissues and organ systems and the severity of effect on each is dependent on the level and duration of exposure. The most sensitive and ...
Global burden of cancer and coronary heart disease resulting from dietary exposure to arsenic, 2015
used the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates of food consumption in 17 country clusters, in conjunction with the reported measurements of total and inorganic arsenic in different foods. We ...
The health and economic burden of haemophilia in Belgium: a rare, expensive and challenging disease
healthy life years lost due to living with disability and dying prematurely. An incidence perspective was used in line with World Health Organization recommendations. The economic burden calculated from ...