Assuming relation is required, the following 142 results were found.
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Health literacyhttps://www.healthybelgium.be/en/health-status/determinants-of-health/health-literacy
shorter version of 6 items was constructed to facilitate the inclusion of the questionnaire in population surveys. The correlation of results between the 47 items-questionnaire and the 6 items-questionnaire was 0.896 [11]. The questionnaire evaluates...
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- Author: admin-sciensano
- Category: Determinants of Health
- Language: en-GB
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Key messages Background Disability-Free Life Expectancy Read more 1. Key messages In 2018, men aged 65 could expect to live another 12.5 years without disability (Disability-Free Life Expectancy at 65 years, DFLE65) and women 12.4 years. Between 2004...
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- Author: author-sciensano
- Category: Life Expectancy and Quality of Life
- Language: en-GB
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Key messages Cost of health conditions defined based on medication use Read more 1. Key messages The economic burden of diabetes is high. The high costs of diabetes are due to the disease being very common. The costs of diabetes have increased since...
- Type: Article
- Author: author-sciensano
- Category: Cost of illness
- Language: en-GB
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Within the Belgian health system performance assessment framework, governance has been defined as the way in which health decision-makers strive to be accountable for their actions, to empower and involve the public, to be transparent, to provide...
- Type: Article
- Author: author-kce
- Category: Sustainability of the health system
- Language: en-GB
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Key messages Daily deaths are influenced by epidemics and weather conditions Mortality rates Read more 1. Key messages In 2023, 111,255 deaths were observed in Belgium. In 2023, age-adjusted mortality rates are for the first time lower than in 2019....
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- Author: admin-sciensano
- Category: Mortality and Causes of Death
- Language: en-GB
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the financial situation of hospitals and healthcare providers. The hospitals needed to implement emergency plans at short notice. Both increasing the admission capacity and increasing the capacity of the...
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- Author: author-health
- Language: en-GB
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Fundinghttps://www.healthybelgium.be/en/funding
- Type: Article
- Author: author-health
- Language: en-GB
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- Author: author-health
- Language: en-GB
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Fundinghttps://www.healthybelgium.be/en/funding
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- Author: author-health
- Language: en-GB
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Fundinghttps://www.healthybelgium.be/en/key-data-in-healthcare/covid-19-en/funding
- Type: Article
- Author: author-health
- Category: COVID 19
- Language: en-GB
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Forewordhttps://www.healthybelgium.be/en/key-data-in-healthcare/mental-healthcare/foreword
Dear Reader, In this new edition of Key Data in Healthcare, we will provide an update on the topic of ‘Mental Healthcare’ that was highlighted for the first time in 2021. The main goal of mental healthcare policy is to provide appropriate counselling,...
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- Author: author-health
- Category: Geestelijke gezondheidszorg
- Language: en-GB
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Forewordhttps://www.healthybelgium.be/en/key-data-in-healthcare/covid-19-en/foreword
Dear Reader, I hereby present to you an updated version of ‘Key data in healthcare – COVID-19’. Although we would have liked things to be different, the virus still impacts our lives. Once again, the colder autumn and winter months are giving rise to a...
- Type: Article
- Author: author-health
- Category: COVID 19
- Language: en-GB
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Forewordhttps://www.healthybelgium.be/en/key-data-in-healthcare/general-hospitals/foreword
Dear reader, We are pleased to provide you with this publication as a source of information on some key figures and trends in healthcare. Following the success of our first publication in 2019, we at the Directorate General for Healthcare of the FPS...
- Type: Article
- Author: author-health
- Category: Algemene ziekenhuizen
- Language: en-GB
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In April 2019, a pilot project was set up in which doctors can refer patients with mild and moderately severe mental health problems to a clinical psychologist or clinical remedial educationalist for short-term, first-line psychological treatment that...
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- Author: author-health
- Language: en-GB
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In a nutshell, the financial sustainability of the health system refers to its ability to cover its costs with the available budget, and to ensure it will still be able to so in future. Unfortunately, the sharp increase in life expectancy the world has...
- Type: Article
- Author: author-kce
- Category: Sustainability of the health system
- Language: en-GB
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An effective health system should be financially accessible to as many people as possible. If people have to restrict or postpone necessary care or treatments due to cost or have to give up on other basic needs to pay for healthcare, the healthcare...
- Type: Article
- Author: author-kce
- Category: Accessibility of care
- Language: en-GB
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- Type: Article
- Author: admin-sciensano
- Category: Factsheets
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There are various types of hospital stays or hospital contacts. In the case of a day hospitalisation, the patient comes to the hospital without staying overnight. In the case of classic hospitalisations, the patient stays at least one night in the...
- Type: Article
- Author: author-health
- Category: Activiteit
- Language: en-GB
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- Type: Article
- Author: author-kce
- Category: Health System Performance Assessment
- Language: en-GB
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- Type: Article
- Author: author-kce
- Category: Specific domains of care
- Language: en-GB