This study investigates the relation between swimming infrastructure and participation in Flanders. First, we investigate whether availability of facilities is related to higher and/or frequency. Second, focus on relationship with quality aspects pools. A number datasets are combined, namely two large-scale sports surveys (children N = 2,920; adults =3,781), a database, survey among pools (N =1...

BACKGROUND Newborn hearing screening programs aim to lower the ages at audiological intervention among hearing-impaired children. In Wallonia and Brussels (Belgium), audiological intervention data are not collected in the screening program, and the ages at initiating audiological care have never been assessed. This study aimed to assess the evolution in the ages at initiating audiological inter...

BACKGROUND In the international debate about assisted dying, it is commonly stated that euthanasia is incompatible with palliative care. In Belgium, where euthanasia was legalized in 2002, the Federation for Palliative Care Flanders has endorsed the viewpoint that euthanasia can be embedded in palliative care. AIM To examine the involvement of palliative care services in euthanasia practice i...

LTRAVIOLET irradiation produces dimers of thymine, thymine-cytosine and cytosine in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) (BEUKERS, IJLSTRA and BERENDS 1960; WACKER, DELLWEG and WEINBLUM 1960; SETLOW, CARRIER and BOLLUM 1965). UV light inactivates transforming DNA and induces thymine dimers in a parallel manner, as if the dimers block transforming activity (SETLOW and SETLOW 1962). Thymine dimers and thy...

Medical education has a long history in the Netherlands and Flanders. This is not only reflected by the leading role of Dutch and Flemish universities in both undergraduate and postgraduate training, but also by the high number of scientific articles in international journals. A few examples to support these introductory statements. The national Blueprint with objectives of undergraduate medica...

BACKGROUND Psychosocial problems are widespread but reliable data about management are sparse. An overall view is missing and there is a need for a wider framework to include the data available in health care and welfare practice, databases and research output. The question under scope is: how are psychosocial problems presented and handled in primary care in Flanders? METHODS A mixed method ...

BACKGROUND The study was intended to analyse the independent effect of some facets of the socio-economic status of both parents on perinatal, neonatal and post-neonatal mortality in the northern region of Belgium (the Flanders). METHOD Perinatal data collected by the Study Centre for Perinatal Epidemiology were linked with socio-economic data collected by the district council. Mothers aged > ...

BACKGROUND General Practitioners (GPs) are well placed to care for patients with (chronic) substance use problems. This pilot was carried out to study the feasibility and usefulness of a continuous surveillance of substance use problems among general practice patients. The objectives were (i) to describe variables with missing values exceeding 1% and whether patients were reported without subst...

Summary Between 1163 and 1240 urban privileges in the county of Flanders often lack formal characteristics typical medieval charters. They consist solely a list legal articles preceded by general heading. In Flanders, such formless law texts are traditionally known as ‘keuren’. The most famous these documents is so-called ‘Grote Keure’ which Count Philip Alsace imposed uniform criminal on major...

All over Europe, the rapidly increasing number of newly arrived migrant students (NAMS) not only transformed countries into ethnically diverse societies but also led to various challenges for educational system in general and its schools teachers particular. In Flanders, education NAMS has several limitations, such as an overrepresentation vocational tracks a lack interaction between reception ...