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Unravelling COVID-19 social mortality patterns using conditional inference tree algorithm
Abstract: Background The COVID-19 pandemic led to significant excess mortality in 2020 in Belgium. By using microlevel cause-specific mortality data for the total Belgian adult population in 2020, three ...
EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders, 2024
risks. Environmental burden of disease (EBD) studies try to estimate the impact of environmental stressors in terms of mortality or morbidity on a population level. Although environmental risks have been ...
Informal caregiving and mental health: results from the Belgian health interview survey 2013 and 2018
Health, Volume 25, Issue 1 (2025) Keywords: GHQ-12 informal care population study PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS public health Abstract: Background Due to a globally ageing population, the demand for informal ...
COVID-19 vaccine responses are influenced by distinct risk factors in naive and SARS-CoV-2 experienced hemodialysis recipients.
experienced HDR. These observations have important implications for the understanding of vaccine-induced immunity and for the management of this vulnerable patient population. Health Topics: Health and disease ...
Ketamine, a new (or old) kid on the block: A comprehensive three-year spatio-temporal study in Belgium through wastewater-based epidemiology
Based on reports of ketamine seizures, self-reported consumption and harmful associated health effects, there are signs of increased ketamine use. However, monitoring population-level consumption patterns ...
Neurocysticercosis Prevalence and Characteristics in Communities of Sinda District in Zambia: A Cross-Sectional Study.
POC CC + , and in 10/82 (12%) TS POC CC- participants. NCC prevalence was 13.5% (95% CI 8.4-21.1%) in the study population and 38.0% (95% CI 5.2-87.4%) among people reporting epileptic seizures. ...
Persistent defect in SARS-CoV-2 humoral and cellular immunity in lung transplant recipients.
recipients (LTR) are susceptible to severe COVID-19 and had lower immune responses to primary SARS-CoV-2 vaccination as compared to the general population and to other solid organ transplant recipients. As ...
The International cookbook for wastewater practitioners- Vol. 1 SARS-CoV-2
with the application of Wastewater-Based Surveillance (WBS) (also known as Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE)) to provide population-scale evidence of SARS-CoV-2 shedding into wastewater. The ...
Could a ring treatment approach be proposed to control Taenia solium transmission in a post elimination setting? A pilot study in Zambia.
provided a stool sample, covering 46% to 59% of the total population living in the study area. Between 78% and 100% of the eligible pigs got sampled. Three ring treatments were based on porcine ...
Assessing the Differences in Outpatient Antibiotic Consumption Between Reimbursement and Sales Data in Belgium, 2013-2022
(DID), using as denominator total population data from Eurostat. Analysis. Bland-Altman plots were used to assess the agreement in DID between reimbursement and retail datasets. Relative differences in DID ...