Assuming relation is required, the following 142 results were found.
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When a citizen calls 112 to ask for medical assistance, a process is initiated in which several actors play a role. These actors are discussed in detail later on. 112 Emergency centres General operation There are 10 emergency centres for 112 calls in...
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- Author: author-health
- Language: en-GB
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- Language: en-GB
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Provincial Commission for Emergency Medical Services (PCDGH/COAMU) The Provincial Commission for Emergency Medical Assistance (PCDGH/COAMU) promotes collaboration between the services and people working in emergency medical assistance. The provincial...
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- Author: author-health
- Language: en-GB
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Key messages In 2018, less than one third (30%) of the adult population (18 years and older) engaged in at least moderate-intensity physical activity during leisure time or during transport for at least 150 minutes throughout the week. More men (36%)...
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- Author: author-sciensano
- Category: Determinants of Health
- Language: en-GB
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This section is based on the 2019 HSPA report and has not been updated since. Giving every child and every family a good start in life still remains a challenge for our health system. In Belgium, the risk of death in newborns is low, but caution...
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- Author: author-kce
- Category: Specific domains of care
- Language: en-GB
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Mental healthhttps://www.healthybelgium.be/en/health-status/diseases/mental-health
Key messages Background Mental health disorders Consumption of psychotropic medicines Read more 1. Key messages In 2018, around one in ten person had an anxiety disorder and/or a depressive disorder.The prevalence of anxiety disorders remained at the...
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- Author: admin-sciensano
- Category: Diseases
- Language: en-GB
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Cancerhttps://www.healthybelgium.be/en/health-status/non-communicable-diseases/cancer
Key messages In 2022, 76,220 new diagnoses of cancer were registered, including 34,446 new cases in women and 41,774 in men. The most frequently diagnosed cancers were prostate cancer, lung and colorectal cancer in men, and breast cancer, lung and...
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- Author: admin-sciensano
- Category: Diseases
- 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...
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- Author: author-kce
- Category: Accessibility of care
- Language: en-GB
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Communicable Diseaseshttps://www.healthybelgium.be/en/health-status/communicable-diseases
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- Author: admin-sciensano
- Category: Health Status
- Language: en-GB
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- Author: admin-sciensano
- Category: Burden of Disease
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Fundinghttps://www.healthybelgium.be/en/funding
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- Author: author-health
- Language: en-GB
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The National Council for Emergency Medical Assistance is a body that gives advice to the Federal Minister for Public Health on the organisation and functioning of Emergency Assistance[1]. The advice given by the body relates to the functioning of the...
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- Author: author-health
- Language: en-GB
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- Category: Factsheets
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Variations may also be observed depending on the type of care offered to the insured for the same practice. This analysis compares traditional hospitalization rates with ambulatory care. Significant differences can be a reflection of variations in care...
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- Author: author-inami
- Category: Why the "practice variations" ?
- Language: en-GB
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Age and gender of the patienthttps://www.healthybelgium.be/en/age-and-gender-of-the-patient
About one-fifth of hospital service users are between 55 and 70 years of age. There is also a peak for children aged 1 to 5 years, mainly due to higher use of ambulatory emergencies. After age 80, women have a higher total number of hospital stays due...
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- Author: author-health
- Language: en-GB
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The graph below shows the number of stays (classic and day hospitalisation combined) for theThe graph below shows the number of stays (classic and day hospitalisation combined) for theten main groups of diagnoses according to the ICD-10-CM...
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- Author: author-health
- Language: en-GB
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Information on the cost related to overweight and obesity is available. Information on weight status from the Health Interview Survey was linked to information on healthcare costs and the number of days absent from work to estimate the economic impact...
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- Author: admin-sciensano
- Category: News
- Language: en-GB
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The analysis reports are renewed and further developed... The Covid-19 pandemic had an unprecedented impact on health care in Belgium during the year 2020: suspension of all non-emergency care for almost two months, followed by a gradual, yet bumpy...
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- Author: admin-inami
- Category: News
- Language: en-GB
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Inter-hospital transporthttps://www.healthybelgium.be/en/inter-hospital-transport
The distribution plan is an essential part of the efforts to ensure the quality of care and to share the burden of care between hospitals. For this reason, hospitals were asked to distribute patients as much as possible within their own hospital...
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- Author: author-health
- Language: en-GB