Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in the 1920s and ischaemic heart disease in the 1970s. We go...

Objectives: A clinical dashboard is a data-driven clinical decision support tool visualizing mul-tiple key performance indicators in a single report while minimizing time and effort for data gat-hering. Evidence showed that including patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in clinical...

L'évaluation économique est pertinente pour appréhender les stratégies thérapeutiques des maladies chroniques. Celles-ci posent néanmoins des difficultés d'application qui peuvent exister dans les maladies aiguës mais sont cumulées dans les maladies chroniques (horizon de long terme,...

Objetivo. Determinar el impacto económico de la mortalidad por SIDA en Colombia, 1997 - 2001. Métodos. Estudio descriptivo que analizó los datos de mortalidad del Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadísticas de Colombia, estimó Años Perdidos de Vida Potencial -APVP- y Años...

Using the data collected for 2004 in the Belgian Health Survey, we aim to show that, after examining all the elements used in determining a self-reported state of health, geographic location bears considerably on the results of self-assessed health, namely a more favourable scoring was...

Les descendants des cadres dirigeants et professions intellectuelles ont-ils une meilleure santé que les descendants d’ouvriers ? Est-ce que la longévité des parents infl uence l’état de santé à l’âge adulte ? Ces deux questions interrogent l’existence d’inégalités des chances...

[paper in French] In the context of increasing in average body mass in Europe and of the proliferation of discourse on weight and on its control, studying diet is essential to understand both the relationship of individuals to their weight and the stakes of current public policies. This article...

This paper decomposes the impact of the determinants of the evolution of HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa from 1997 to 2005. We classify our set of determinants into socioeconomic, epidemiological, sociologic and cultural and we try to assess the importance of each group of determinants...

The complexity of indicator’s system derives from the very complexity of the health concept as defined by the World Health Organization that "Health is that state of good : physical, mental, social and consists not only in the absence of disease or infirmity". The indicators should cover both...