Attitudes of healthcare workers towards COVID-19 vaccination: a survey in France and French-speaking parts of Belgium and Canada, 2020

Attitudes of healthcare workers towards COVID-19 vaccination: a survey in France and French-speaking parts of Belgium and Canada, 2020

Pierre Verger, Dimitri Scronias, Nicolas Dauby, Kodzo Awoenam Adedzi6, Cathy Gobert, Maxime Bergeat, Arnaud Gagneur, Eve Dubé  Eurosurveillance, Volume 26, Issue 3, 21/Jan/2021  Abstract In October and November 2020, we conducted a survey of 2,678 healthcare workers (HCWs) involved in general

Performance du système de santé belge : Évaluation de l’équité | De performantie van het Belgische gezondheidssysteem: evaluatie van de billijkheid

Performance du système de santé belge : Évaluation de l’équité | De performantie van het Belgische gezondheidssysteem: evaluatie van de billijkheid

KCE Reports 334B (2020)English | Français | Nederlands Tout le monde n’est malheureusement pas en bonne santé et certains ont davantage besoin d’avoir recours aux soins de santé que d’autres. Dans notre système belge, basé sur la solidarité, on tente

Recommendations for a Health literacy Policy Plan for Belgium: Learning from experiences of other countries

Recommendations for a Health literacy Policy Plan for Belgium: Learning from experiences of other countries

S Van Den Broucke, K Rondia, J Adriaenssens, L Kohn European Journal of Public Health, Volume 30, Issue Supplement_5, September 2020, ckaa165.1400, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.1400Published: 30 September 2020 Abstract BACKGROUND In Belgium, the past decade has seen a large number of initiatives by various

Validity of self-reported mammography uptake in the Belgian health interview survey: selection and reporting bias

Validity of self-reported mammography uptake in the Belgian health interview survey: selection and reporting bias

Finaba Berete, Johan Van der Heyden, Stefaan Demarest, Rana Charafeddine, Jean Tafforeau, Herman Van Oyen, Olivier Bruyère, Françoise Renard European Journal of Public Health, ckaa217, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa217 Abstract BACKGROUND The validity of self-reported mammography uptake is often questioned. We assessed the related

Rapid establishment of a national surveillance of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Belgium

Rapid establishment of a national surveillance of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Belgium

Nina Van Goethem, Aline Vilain, Chloé Wyndham-Thomas, Jessika Deblonde, Nathalie Bossuyt, Tinne Lernout, Javiera Rebolledo Gonzalez, Sophie Quoilin, Vincent Melis & Dominique Van Beckhoven  Archives of Public Health, volume 78, Article number: 121 (2020) Abstract Background In response to the COVID-19 epidemic, caused by a novel coronavirus, it was of great importance to rapidly

Comparing health insurance data and health interview survey data for ascertaining chronic disease prevalence in Belgium

Comparing health insurance data and health interview survey data for ascertaining chronic disease prevalence in Belgium

Finaba Berete, Stefaan Demarest, Rana Charafeddine, Olivier Bruyère & Johan Van der Heyden Archives of Public Health, volume 78, Article number: 120 (2020) Abstract Background Health administrative data were increasingly used for chronic diseases (CDs) surveillance purposes. This cross sectional study explored the agreement

All-cause mortality supports the COVID-19 mortality in Belgium and comparison with major fatal events of the last century

All-cause mortality supports the COVID-19 mortality in Belgium and comparison with major fatal events of the last century

Natalia Bustos Sierra, Nathalie Bossuyt, Toon Braeye, Mathias Leroy, Isabelle Moyersoen, Ilse Peeters, Aline Scohy, Johan Van der Heyden, Herman Van Oyen & Françoise Renard Archives of Public Health, volume 78, Article number: 117 (2020)  Abstract Background The COVID-19 mortality rate in Belgium has

Is device-based total and domain-specific sedentary behaviour associated with psychological distress in Flemish workers?

Is device-based total and domain-specific sedentary behaviour associated with psychological distress in Flemish workers?

Katrien De Cocker,  Margo Ketels,  Jason A Bennie,  Els Clays European Journal of Public HealthPublished: 03 September 2020 Abstract BACKGROUNDThere is increasing interest in the association between psychological distress and time spent in sedentary behaviour (e.g. sitting), a highly prevalent behaviour in modern society.