BACKGROUND The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emerged as a global threat at the beginning of 2020, spreading around the globe at different times and rates. Within a country, such differences provide the opportunity for strategic allocations of health care resources. OBJECTIVE We aim to provide a tool to estimate and visualize differences in the spr...
Sibling survival histories are a major source of adult mortality estimates in countries with incomplete death registration. We evaluate age and date reporting errors in sibling histories collected during a validation study in the Niakhar Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Senegal). Participants were randomly assigned to either the Demograp...
Poor maternal nutrition contributes to poor birth outcomes, including low birth weight and small for gestational age births. Fortified balanced energy protein (BEP) supplements may be beneficial, although evidence is limited. This mixed method study, conducted among pregnant women in Burkina Faso, is part of a larger clinical trial that seeks to un...
Published in Patient education and counseling
Communication and education about health behaviours to the general population is essential in public health promotion. This paper describes the process and outcome of developing a new health education model (infographic) for physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour used in Flanders (Belgium). The Flanders Institute for Healthy Living, experti...
Introduction: Limited literature concerning nocturia in early postmenopausal women is available. However, due to the lack of endogenous estrogen in these women, an increased prevalence of nocturia is expected. Material and methods: This prospective observational trial recruited 210 'early' postmenopausal women consulting the Ghent University menopa...
Published in Viruses
The treatment and management of chronic wounds presents a massive financial burden for global health care systems, with significant and disturbing consequences for the patients affected. These wounds remain challenging to treat, reduce the patients' life quality, and are responsible for a high percentage of limb amputations and many premature death...
With information on approximately 50 demographic indicators, this data set provides historical time series tables for both metropolitan and overseas France, covering population change, age structure, immigration, period and cohort fertility, induced abortions, period and cohort nuptiality and legal dissolution, and mortality. For many indicators, t...
Le 1er janvier 2020, la France comptait un peu plus de 67 millions d’habitants dont 14,4 millions avaient moins de 18 ans. Le nombre de naissances (754 000) continue de baisser et le nombre de décès (612 000) d’augmenter. Le solde naturel demeure le principal moteur de l’accroissement démographique. Le flux d’entrées d’étrangers originaires de pays...
Cette base de données rassemble des séries longues d’une cinquantaine d’indicateurs démographiques de la France (métropolitaine et entière) couvrant le mouvement de la population, la structure par âge, l’immigration, la fécondité du moment et des générations, les interruptions volontaires de grossesse (IVG), la nuptialité du moment et des génératio...
Published in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Studies estimating excess length of stay (LOS) attributable to nosocomial infections have failed to address time-varying confounding, likely leading to overestimation of their impact. We present a methodology based on inverse probability-weighted survival curves to address this limitation. A case study focusing on intensive care unit-acquired bacte...
