Brecht Devleesschauwer

Dados Biográficos

ID6159490
NOMEBrecht Devleesschauwer
PRENOMESBrecht
SOBRENOMEDevleesschauwer
ASSINATURADEVLEESSCHAUWER B
AFILIAÇÕESGhent University
ORCID0000-0002-2867-6892
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS30
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES3
TOTAL COMO AUTOR30
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2014
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
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  • Years of Life Lost due to the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal

    Open AccessMargo Tonnelier, Damien Delforge et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    Information on Years of Life Lost (YLL) is instrumental in determining the mortality impact of disasters at the population level. YLL due to the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal, along with associated demographic disparities, has not yet been systematically studied. We therefore estimated YLL due to the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal and examined disparities by age, sex, and district. Earthquake-specific deaths were sourced from the 2017 Nepal Po…

  • Estimating years of life lost due to premature mortality at regional level in France in 2017, using a probabilistic redistribution approach

    Open AccessRomana Haneef, Aline Scohy et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    We quantified the full mortality burden for the first time in France at regional level, based on a new probabilistic redistribution method developed by researchers from Sciensano before COVID-19 pandemic. These estimates are important for future investigations on the contribution of social inequalities and risk factors to all-cause mortality in France with a focus on regional differences

  • Local approach to attributable disease burden

    Open AccessA Pauwels, Claire Demoury et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Aggregated local burden estimates prove to be accurate compared to the global approach. This means the local method shows potential for comparing areas and population groups at subnational level, where estimates can be generated in a flexible manner depending on research or policy needs

  • Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific premature mortality in Belgium, 1998–2019

    Open AccessMartina Otavova, Bruno Masquelier et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Premature mortality rates have declined over time, but inequality has increased due to a faster pace of decrease in the least deprived areas compared to the most deprived areas. As the causes of death related to poor lifestyle choices contribute the most to the inequality gap, more effective, country-level interventions should be put in place to target segments of the population living in the most deprived areas as they are facing disproportionat…

  • The state of health in the European Union (EU-27) in 2019

    Open AccessJoão Vasco Santos, Alicia Padron-Monedero et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    There was a clear trend towards improvement in the overall health status of the EU but with differences between countries. EU health policymakers need to address the burden of diseases, paying specific attention to causes such as mental disorders. There are many opportunities for mutual learning among otherwise similar countries with different patterns of disease

  • Cluster pattern analysis of environmental stressors and quantifying their impact on all-cause mortality in Belgium

    Open AccessBram Vandeninden, Eva M De Clercq et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Environmental stress represents an important burden on health and leads to a considerable number of diseases, hospitalisations, and excess mortality. Our study encompasses a representative sample size drawn from the Belgian population in 2016 (n = 11.26 million, with a focus on n = 11.15 million individuals). The analysis is conducted at the geographical level of statistical sectors, comprising a total of n = 19,794 sectors, with a subset of n = …

  • Sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities in Covid-19 vaccine uptake in Belgium

    Open AccessLisa Cavillot, Joris Adriaan Frank Van Loenhout et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2024Citada por: 1Referências: 30

    BACKGROUND: Recent studies have identified important social inequalities in SARS-CoV-2 infections and related COVID-19 outcomes in the Belgian population. The aim of our study was to investigate the sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristics associated with the uptake of COVID-19 vaccine in Belgium. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of the uptake of a first COVID-19 vaccine dose among 5 342 110 adults (≥18 years) in Belgium…

  • Inequalities in the burden of non-communicable diseases across European countries

    Open AccessCarlos Alexandre Soares Andrade, Nour Mahrouseh et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2023

    The inequality in level 1 NCDs DALYs rate is relatively low among all the countries. CVDs, digestive diseases, diabetes and kidney diseases, substance use disorders, and chronic respiratory diseases are the NCDs that exhibit higher levels of inequality across countries in the EEA. This might be mitigated by applying tailored preventive measures and enabling healthcare access

  • Post Covid-19 condition and health-related quality of life

    Open AccessP Smith, Robby De Pauw et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    With the growing number of people infected with SARS-CoV-2, PCC and its impact on HRQoL are becoming important public health issues. To allow people with PCC to recover and to limit its detrimental impact on HRQoL, it is essential to manage its various heterogeneous symptoms using a multidisciplinary approach

  • The direct disease burden of Covid-19 in Belgium in 2020 and 2021

    Open AccessBrecht Devleesschauwer, Lander Willems et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    COVID-19 had a substantial impact on population health in Belgium, especially in 2020, when COVID-19 would have been the main cause of disease burden if all other causes had maintained their 2019 level

  • Burden of Disease of Covid-19

    Open AccessSara M Pires, Grant M A Wyper et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Objectives: Quantifying the combined impact of morbidity and mortality is a key enabler to assessing the impact of COVID-19 across countries and within countries relative to other diseases, regions, or demographics. Differences in methods, data sources, and definitions of mortality due to COVID-19 may hamper comparisons. We describe efforts to support countries in estimating the national-level burden of COVID-19 using disability-adjusted life yea…

  • Qaly losses for chronic diseases and its social distribution in the general population

    Open AccessLisa Van Wilder, Brecht Devleesschauwer et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Given that chronic diseases will rise in the next decades, addressing its burden is necessary, particularly among the most vulnerable (i.e. older persons, women, low SES). Interventions in these target groups should get priority in order to reduce the burden of chronic diseases

  • Variation in smoking attributable all-cause mortality across municipalities in Belgium, 2018

    Open AccessPolina Putrik, Martina Otavova et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Within-country variation in smoking and smoking attributable mortality was observed. Computed estimates should inform local public health prevention campaigns as well as contribute to explaining the regional differences in mortality

  • Past, present, and future trends of overweight and obesity in Belgium using Bayesian age-period-cohort models

    Open AccessRobby De Pauw, Manu Claessens et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Our projections show that the WHO target to halt obesity by 2025 will most likely not be achieved. There is an urgent necessity for policy makers to implement effective prevent policies and other strategies in people who are at risk for developing overweight and/or obesity

  • Lyme borreliosis in Belgium

    Open AccessLaurence Geebelen, Brecht Devleesschauwer et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    We estimate the total annual direct medical costs, direct non-medical and indirect non-medical costs associated with LB to exceed €5.5 million per year, almost evenly distributed between EM (40%) and disseminated/late LB (60%). EM costs 26 times less per patient but occurs also 16 times more frequently than disseminated/late LB. The cost burden remains limited by comparison to other infectious diseases due to the relative lower incidence

  • Health care costs and lost productivity costs related to excess weight in Belgium

    Open AccessVanessa Gorasso, Isabelle Moyersoen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    The mean annual incremental cost of excess weight in Belgium is of concern and stresses the need for policy actions aiming to reduce excess body weight. This study can be used as a baseline to evaluate the potential savings and health benefits of obesity prevention interventions

  • Inequalities in mortality associated with housing conditions in Belgium between 1991 and 2020

    Open AccessMartina Otavova, Christel Faes et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Thousands of deaths in Belgium could be avoided if all Belgian neighborhoods had the mortality rates of the least deprived areas in terms of housing. Hotspots of housing inequalities need to be located and targeted with tailored public actions

  • Association between urban environment and mental health in Brussels, Belgium

    Open AccessIngrid Pelgrims, Brecht Devleesschauwer et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    These findings have important implications because most of the Brussel's population resides in areas where particulate matters concentrations are above the World Health Organization guidelines. This suggests that policies aiming to reduce traffic related-air pollution could also reduce the burden of depressive disorders in Brussels

  • Estimating the direct Covid-19 disability-adjusted life years impact on the Malta population for the first full year

    Open AccessSarah Cuschieri, Neville Calleja et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Covid-19 over 1 year has impacted substantially the population health in Malta. Post-acute consequences are the leading morbidity factors that require urgent targeted action to ensure timely multidisciplinary care. It is recommended that DALY estimations in 2021 and beyond are calculated to assess the impact of vaccine roll-out and emergence of new variants

  • The impact of multimorbidity patterns on health-related quality of life in the general population

    Open AccessLisa Van Wilder, Brecht Devleesschauwer et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2021

    Diverse multimorbidity patterns, both dyads and triads, were synergistically or antagonistically associated with lower HRQoL. Tackling the burden of multimorbidity is needed, especially because most disease combinations affect each other synergistically, resulting in a greater reduction in HRQoL. Further knowledge about those multimorbidity patterns with a greater impact on HRQoL is needed to better understand disease burden beyond mortality and …

  • Belgian population norms for the EQ-5D-5L, 2018

    Open AccessLisa Van Wilder, Rawan Charafeddine et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2021

    This paper presents the first nationally representative Belgian population norms using the EQ-5D-5L. Inclusion of the EQ-5D in future surveys will allow monitoring over time of self-reported health, disease burden, and health inequalities

  • Health expectancies in the European Union

    João Vasco Santos, João Viana et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2021Referências: 36

    BACKGROUND: Healthy life expectancy (HLE) is a population health measure that combines mortality and morbidity, which can be calculated using different methods. In this study, we aimed to assess the correlation, reliability and (dis)agreement between two estimates monitored in the European Union (EU), that is, the European Commission's HLE based on self-perceived health (SPH-HLE) and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation's HLE based on …

  • Perceived utility and feasibility of pathogen genomics for public health practice

    Open AccessNina Van Goethem, Marc Struelens et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Belgian health professionals expressed favorable views about implementation of pathogen genomics in their work activities related to infectious disease surveillance and control. They expressed the need for suitable training initiatives to strengthen their competences in the field. Their perception of the utility and feasibility of pathogen genomics for public health purposes will be a key driver for its further implementation

  • Monitoring health inequalities when the socio-economic composition changes

    Open AccessFrançoise Renard, Brecht Devleesschauwer et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    If improving the educational attainment is part of a policy, an upwards shift of EL should be assessed as a progress; however the RII, and to a lesser extent the SII, frequently translate an increased EL4 share as a worsening. We warn against the use of SII and RII for monitoring inequality-tackling policies at changing socio-economic structures. Rather, we recommend to complement the assessment of changes in absolute and relative pairwise differ…

  • Changes in health in Belgium, 1990–2016

    Open AccessCharline Maertens de Noordhout, Herman Van Oyen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Belgium's ranking among the EU15 in terms of AS YLL and DALY rates decreased from 1990 to 2016. Significant health gains appear possible by acting on risk factors directly linked to a significant part of the Belgian burden of diseases, i.e., alcohol and tobacco consumption, and high body mass index. National burden of disease estimates can help defining Belgian health targets and are necessary as external validity of GBD results is not always gua…