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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 ...
Implementation of METROFOOD services in the Belgium node
Forum on Research Infrastructures) research infrastructure (RI), METROFOOD- RI, an European distributed- RI aimed at promoting scientific excellence via high-level metrological services in food and ...
Physical activity on prescription in Belgium: General Practitioners’ involvement
a positive impact on PA levels and metabolic health. Furthermore, 94% of the Belgian population have contact with general practitioners (GP s), positioning them as potential key actors. Purpose To investigate ...
Overview of air quality measures aiming to reduce emissions from road traffic and mitigate health impact in Belgium
pollution levels in Belgium, a considerable part of the population is still exposed to concentration levels exceeding the WHO Air Quality Guidelines. Therefore, identifying and quantifying the effectiveness ...
Validation of the measurement of Aluminium in food by ICP-OES after acid digestion
foodstuffs, it is necessary to accurately measure aluminium levels. In our laboratory, we have developed a method utilising inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP- OES) to analyse certain ...
Influenza like-illness surveillance using a Belgian sentinel network of nursing homes: results of October 2022 onwards
a proxy for NH residents. Throughout the year, weekly epidemiological/clinical data is collected on the number of ILI cases, ILI-related hospital admissions and deaths at NH level using an online ...
Thirty years of epidemiological surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Belgian hospitals: are we able to keep on lowering the curve?
initiated in 1994. Initially, participation in this surveillance was voluntary, but became mandatory in 2006. Methods Data, aggregated at hospital level, are collected retrospectively in the following year by ...
Interim analysis of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation and death using electronic health records in six European countries
Burden and Impact Studies (VEBIS) project. A retrospective cohort was constructed from linked electronic health records (EHR) in each country. Countryspecific (level) relative VE (rVE) was estimated on ...
Epidemiology of COVID-19 mortality in Belgium from wave 1 to wave 7 (March 2020 – 11 September 2022)
inhabitants), followed by Brussels-Capital Region (297 per 100,000 inhabitants) and Flanders (252 per 100,000 inhabitants). At provincial level (and Brussels-Capital Region), Hainaut had the highest overall ...
EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders
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 studied in ...