Publications by authors named "H Deconinck"
Article Synopsis
- This paper introduces a method for managing populations by analyzing healthcare consumption data from individuals aged 60-79, focusing on their healthcare trajectories in 2017.
- The study identifies key aspects such as health event nature, transitions in care, duration of events, and event hierarchy through a K-mers and multinomial mixture modeling approach.
- Five distinct population groups were found, which can help local governing bodies to better understand community health needs and improve decision-making by using routinely collected data effectively.
Congenital microcoria (MCOR) is an eye anomaly characterized by a pupil with diameter below 2 mm, and is caused by underdevelopment or absence of the dilator muscle of the pupil. Two types have been described: a recessive, syndromic (Pierson syndrome OMIM 609049) and a dominant, isolated form (MCOR syndrome OMIM 156600). Fares-Taie and colleagues described inherited microdeletions in chromosome band 13q32.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA new look at population health through the lenses of cognitive, functional and social disability clustering in eastern DR Congo: a community-based cross-sectional study.
BMC Public Health
January 2019
Background: The importance of viewing health from a broader perspective than the mere presence or absence of disease is critical at primary healthcare level. However, there is scanty evidence-based stratification of population health using other criteria than morbidity-related indicators in developing countries. We propose a novel stratification of population health based on cognitive, functional and social disability and its covariates at primary healthcare level in DR Congo.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSince 2007 to address a high burden, integration of acute malnutrition has been promoted in Niger. This paper studies factors that influenced the integration process of acute malnutrition into the Niger national health system.We used qualitative methods of observation, key informant interviews and focus group discussions at national level, two districts and nine communities selected through convenience sampling, as well as document review.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Reliable prospective estimates of annual severe acute malnutrition (SAM) caseloads for treatment are needed for policy decisions and planning of quality services in the context of competing public health priorities and limited resources. This paper compares the reliability of SAM caseloads of children 6-59 months of age in Niger estimated from prevalence at the start of the year and counted from incidence at the end of the year.
Methods: Secondary data from two health districts for 2012 and the country overall for 2013 were used to calculate annual caseload of SAM.