Purpose This paper aims to report the findings of an evaluation study concerning the Central Registration Points (CRPs) for drug users in Belgian prisons. CRPs support drug users to link with community-based services. Design/methodology/approach The study applied a multi-method approach that involved an exploratory literature review; a secondary an...
The present study investigated the effects of body size, relative age (RA), and human development index (HDI) on theprofessional rise of Brazilian soccer players playing in Europe. The sample consisted of 309 Brazilian players in the top 10 Europeanleagues, according to the ranking of UEFA club coefficients. The data were collected on the official ...
Ce document présente une synthèse sur les perspectives démographiques en France d’ici 2050. La situation et les évolutions françaises sont replacées dans un cadre plus général au moyen de comparaisons internationales et européennes. Le document se compose de cinq parties abordant chacune un thème de la démographie. La première porte sur la croissan...
Published in European Transport Research Review
IntroductionCosts related to road crashes represent an important societal burden. Additionally they constitute an essential input variable to assess the cost efficiency of road safety measures. While most attention is usually spent on costs related to fatal crashes, this paper focuses on costs related to serious injuries.MethodA review of these cos...
status: Published online
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed many social, economic, environmental and healthcare determinants of health. We applied an ensemble of 16 Bayesian models to vital statistics data to estimate the all-cause mortality effect of the pandemic for 21 industrialized countries. From mid-February through May 2020, 206,000 (95% cr...
status: published
Introduction: Outcome measures are key to tailor rehabilitation goals to the stroke patient's individual needs and to monitor poststroke recovery. The large number of available outcome measures leads to high variability in clinical use. Currently, an internationally agreed core set of motor outcome measures for clinical application is lacking. Ther...
Published in Population Health Metrics
BackgroundHealthy life years have superseded life expectancy (LE) as the most important indicator for population health. The most common approach to separate the total number of life years into those spent in good and poor health is the Sullivan method which incorporates the health dimension to the classic period life table, thus transforming the L...
