Publications by authors named "Christiane Gosset"
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- * In Lausanne, Switzerland, health promotion programs align with 80% of the categories in the S2D grid, showing effective intersectoral collaboration and low redundancy in measures.
- * The findings suggest that SDGs and health promotion are interconnected beyond just Goal 3 (good health and well-being), and the S2D grid can facilitate better collaboration among stakeholders in public health initiatives.
Background: Approximately one third of older people over 65 years fall each year. Home modifications may decrease occurrence of falls.
Purpose: This study aims to determine the risk factors of falls for frail older persons and to evaluate the impact of home modifications by an occupational therapist on the occurrence of falls.
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- This study evaluates the potential economic consequences of a West Nile Virus (WNV) epidemic in Belgium, focusing on both equine and human health sectors using 2012 data.
- The research identifies risk areas based on suitable habitats for the virus's main vector, Culex pipiens, and estimates the morbidity for horses and humans based on past European epidemics.
- Costs associated with vaccinations and replacements in horses could exceed EUR 30 million nationwide, while human health impacts would involve significant hospital expenses, particularly for severe forms of the disease, without a current vaccine available for humans.
Analysis of national health insurance accounts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) clearly shows the importance of international sanitary aid, particularlyfor thefunding ofgeneral referral hospitals, the management of inpatients with AIDS, administration of health zones andfunding of preventive care providers. It The targeted changes described in this article could possibly optimize the efficiency ofinternational aidfor the DRC population, mainly for disorders considered to be a health care priority (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) Hip Replacement Expectations Survey and Knee Replacement Expectations Survey are validated tools developed to measure patients' preoperative expectations for hip and knee arthroplasty. These instruments have possible uses in both daily practice and research. Our objective was to assess the test-retest reliability and the construct validity of the French version of the surveys.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHome health care today is challenged by a shift from an acute to a chronic health-care model, moving the focus of care from the hospital to home-care setting. This increased focus on care at home emphasizes the need for an efficient, effective, and transparent management of home health care. However, it is not precisely known what home-care nurses do; what kind of care is received by patients; what the performance of home nurses is; and what the impact of the increasing need for home nursing is on the current and future role of home nurses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo prioritize 100 animal diseases and zoonoses in Europe, we used a multicriteria decision-making procedure based on opinions of experts and evidence-based data. Forty international experts performed intracategory and intercategory weighting of 57 prioritization criteria. Two methods (deterministic with mean of each weight and probabilistic with distribution functions of weights by using Monte Carlo simulation) were used to calculate a score for each disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To examine how geriatric evaluation and management units (GEMUs) are organized and to examine the effectiveness of admission on a GEMU.
Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis based on literature search of multiple databases and the references lists of all identified articles and by contacting authors.
Setting: GEMUs.
Objective: To evaluate whether implementation of discharge management by trained social workers or nurses reduces hospital readmissions and institutionalizations of geriatric patients in a real-world setting.
Design: Quasi-experimental design.
Setting: Six general hospitals in Belgium.
Background: International comparisons of health care systems have shown a relationship at the macro level between a well-structured primary health care plan and lower total health care costs. The objective of this study was to assess whether provider continuity with a family physician is related to lower health care costs using the individual patient as the unit of analysis.
Methods: We undertook a study of a stratified sample of patients (age, sex, region, insurance company) for which 2 cohorts were constructed based on the patients' utilization pattern of family medicine (provider continuity or not).