Scouts, forests, and ticks: Impact of landscapes on human-tick contacts.

Just as with forest workers or people practicing outdoor recreational activities, scouts are at high risk for tick bites and tick-borne infections. The risk of a tick bite is shaped not only by environmental and climatic factors but also by land management. The aim of this study was to assess which environmental conditions favour scout-tick contacts, and thus to better understand how these factors and their interactions influence the two components of risk: hazard (related to vector and host ecology) and exposure of humans to disease vectors.

[Qualitative analysis of factors supporting the motivation for gastric bypass].

Half of Belgium's adult population is overweight and approximately 14% are obese. Apart from organic diseases associated with obesity, the psychological repercussion is very important and requires a specific caring. Conservative treatments containing diet, physical-activity and drugs often show limits in particular when the patient presents food behavioural disorders.

[Type 2 diabetes mellitus prevalence and social inequalities for health].

We have analyzed the relationship between the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (type 2) and socio-economic status of patients. The cross-sectional study included 79,855 patients registered in Belgium capitation-fee primary health care centers. The adjusted prevalence for age and gender was 6.