Monitoring of non-communicable diseases in Belgium

Abstract Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for the highest share of deaths and burden of disease in Belgium. Nevertheless, there is currently no national plan to prevent and monitor the health impact of NCDs. Recently, two initiatives have been launched by Sciensano, the Belgian institute for health, providing new opportunities for monitoring NCDs in an integrated and comparable way - i.e., the Belgian Health Status Report (HSR) and the Belgian National Burden of Disease Study (BeBOD). The HSR, launched in February 2019, integrates health status information in a continuously updated web... Mehr ...