Zoekresultaten - 15 results

according to a coherent framework. To tackle this objective, the disease burden attributable to environmental stressors is estimated using comparative risk assessment (CRA). As this method determines the ...

a reference set of commonly agreed indicators for data reporting to improve comparability, while giving practical advice on different options for data collection to allow for sufficient flexibility. It is ...

over the years. Over the last 18 years, the incidence rates varied between 0.4 and 0.9 cases/100 000 inhabitants, which is relatively high compares to other European countries (average of 0.43/100 000 ...

more disability than men perhaps due to gender differences in the prevalence of diseases and/or in their disabling impact. We compare the contribution of chronic diseases to disability in men and women ...

contribution of chronic conditions to gender differences in disability- free life expectancy (DFLE) and life expectancy with disability (LED) in Belgium in 2001, 2004 and 2008. Methods: Data on disability and ...

DALY s were to be used for guiding health policy, a more systematic approach is required. By integrating DALY s in the current data generating systems, comparable estimates, rooted in recent local data ...

people aged 1–74 residing in Belgium were included. The cause of death and population data for Belgium were provided by Statistics Belgium, while data for international comparisons were extracted from the ...

multiple indices, and to assess the contribution of the national breast cancer screening programme in these changes. Methods: Data were obtained from four waves of the Belgian Health Interview Survey. The ...

peripheral immune response against mycobacterial antigens as compared to pretreatment values. In the present work, we have studied the weekly evolution of this immune response induced by intravesical BCG ...

patients used as controls. We also analysed the lymphoproliferative response of peripheral blood mononuclear cells against PPD in this population. Data of antibody responses at 6 weeks post BCG were ...