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Rütten, A. (author), Vuillemin, A. (author), Ooijendijk, W.T.M. (author), Schena, F. (author), Sjöström, M. (author), Stahl, T. (author), Vanden Auweele, Y. (author), Welshman, J. (author), Ziemainz, H. (author), TNO Kwaliteit van Leven (author)Objectives: The main objective of this paper is to describe the approach and specific findings of the European Physical Activity Surveillance System (EUPASS) research project. In particular, the analysis presented aims at testing the reliability, comparability and predictive power of different sets of physical activity (PA) indicators. Design:...article 2003
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TNO Preventie en Gezondheid (author), Zeitlin, J. (author), Wildman, K. (author), Bréart, G. (author), Alexander, S. (author), Barros, H. (author), Blondel, B. (author), Buitendijk, S. (author), Gissler, M. (author), Macfarlane, A. (author)Background: The PERISTAT project aimed to develop an indicator set for monitoring and describing perinatal health in Europe. The challenge was to define indicators that cover common concerns and have the same meaning within the different European health care systems. Methods: PERISTAT included i) a review of existing recommendations on perinatal...article 2003
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TNO Preventie en Gezondheid (author), van Buuren, S. (author), Eyres, S. (author), Tennant, A. (author), Hopman-Rock, M. (author)Background: Comparability of health data is a major challenge within the context of the Health Monitoring Programme of the European Commission. A common problem in surveys is that many variations of essentially the same question exist. Methods: Response conversion is a new method for improving comparability by scaling the data onto a common...article 2003
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TNO Preventie en Gezondheid (author), Robine, J.M. (author), Jagger, C. (author), Egidi, V. (author), Gispert, R. (author), Nusselder, W. (author), Perenboom, R. (author), Rasmussen, N. (author), Ritchie, K. (author), van den Berg, J. (author), van Oyen, H. (author)The Euro-REVES 2 project, 'Setting up of a coherent set of health expectancies for the European Union', was begun in 1998 under the European Health Monitoring Programme with the aim of selecting a concise set of instruments to simultaneously monitor mortality and the different facets of health. An in-depth analysis of the current health survey...article 2003
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TNO Preventie en Gezondheid (author), Banta, H.D. (author)[No abstract available]article 2003
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Feron, V.J. (author), Groten, J.P. (author), Centraal Instituut voor Voedingsonderzoek TNO (author)This paper addresses major developments in the safety evaluation of chemical mixtures during the past 15 years, reviews today's state of the art of mixture toxicology, and discusses challenges ahead. Well-thought-out tailor-made mechanistic and empirical designs for studying the toxicity of mixtures have gradually substituted trial-and-error...article 2002
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Brussaard, J.H. (author), Johansson, L. (author), Kearney, J. (author), Centraal Instituut voor Voedingsonderzoek TNO (author)Objective: To describe the rationale and methods for a European project (EFCOSUM) to develop a method for a European food consumption survey that delivers internationally comparable data on a set of policy-relevant nutritional indicators. Rationale and methods: Currently Member States are collecting data and information for use at national level...article 2002
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de Jong, R.G. (author), van Wiechen, C.M.A.G. (author), Franssen, E.A.M. (author), Lebret, E. (author), Instituut voor Ruimtelijke Organisatie TNO (author)The possible relation between aircraft noise exposure and the prevalence of complainants around Schiphol airport was studied. The home address of people who complain about aircraft noise at the Environment Advisory Committee Schiphol was combined with annual average noise levels, using a Geographic Information System. The prevalence of...article 2002
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Kalsbeek, H. (author), Poorterman, J.H. (author), Eijkman, M.A. (author), Verrips, G.H. (author)In 1987, 1993 and 1999 an epidemiological study was performed on oral health in youngsters, aged 5, 11, 17 or 23 years, in whom oral health care was covered by a health insurance fund. The prevalence of caries in the deciduous teeth of the 5-year-olds (examined without radiographs) did not change significantly between 1987 and 1999. Only a small...article 2002
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Feron, V.J. (author), Cassee, F.R. (author), Groten, J.P. (author), van Vliet, P.W. (author), van Zorge, J.A. (author), TNO Voeding Centraal Instituut voor Voedingsonderzoek TNO (author)In this article, we highlight new developments and recent studies concerning adverse human health effects related to chemical mixtures. One group of activities comprises the development of a new computer program for analyzing mixture studies and a mathematical model as a basis for combination rules that predict the toxicity of mixtures. Other...article 2002
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TNO Preventie en Gezondheid (author), Banta, H.D. (author), Hatziandreu, E. (author), Dauben, H.P. (author), Førde, O.H. (author), Loud, M.L. (author), Isacsson, S.O. (author), Paccaud, F. (author), Sanchez, E. (author), Steiger, T.S. (author)The aim of Working Group 1 has been to assess health promotion and disease prevention activities in terms of benefits, risks, and economic, social, and ethical implications as a complement to community health indicators. Objectives: The objectives delineated for Working Group 1 were: 1) to analyze current initiatives to assess health promotion...article 2002
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van Herten, L.M. (author), Reijneveld, S.A. (author), Gunning-Schepers, L.J. (author)Objective - It is generally accepted that a wide range of factors determine the health of a population, many of which are beyond the remit of the Ministry of Health. The aim of intersectoral health policy is to influence these factors. Success depends on a multi-stage process. This paper aims to provide support for the first stage of this...article 2001
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Prinsen, M.K. (author), Gouko, N. (author), Instituut CIVO-Toxicologie en Voeding TNO (author)In Japan there is growing concern about the possible adverse effects of consumption of food from styrene containers (mainly those made from polystyrene paper) due to the alleged oestrogenic activity of styrene oligomers (dimers and trimers), which may migrate into the food. To examine the possible oestrogenic activity of styrene dimers and...article 2001
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Groten, J.P. (author), Centraal Instituut voor Voedingsonderzoek TNO (author)Drinking water can be considered as a complex mixture that consists of tens, hundreds or thousands of chemicals of which the composition is qualitatively and quantitatively not fully known. From a public health point of view it is most relevant to answer the question of whether chemicals in drinking water interact in a way that results in an...article 2000
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van der Wilt, G.J. (author), Reuzel, R. (author), Banta, H.D. (author), TNO Preventie en Gezondheid (author)Health technology assessment (HTA) consists of the systematic study of the consequences of the introduction or continued use of the technology in a particular context, with the explicit objective to arrive at a judgment of the value or merit of the technology. Ideally, it is aimed at assessing all aspects of a given technology or group of...article 2000
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Passchier-Vermeer, W. (author), Passchier, W.F. (author), TNO Preventie en Gezondheid (author)Exposure to noise constitutes a health risk. There is sufficient scientific evidence that noise exposure can induce hearing impairment, hypertension and ischemic heart disease, annoyance, sleep disturbance, and decreased school performance. For other effects such as changes in the immune system and birth defects, the evidence is limited. Most...article 2000
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Gunning-Schepers, L.J. (author), van Herten, L.M. (author)In the 1980s epidemiology was rediscovered by health policy makers and health target setting was introduced. Although it brought back the populations' health as the central goal in health policy, some problems were also identified with the use of targets. First, of course, the political risk of being so explicit in a field where one does not...article 2000
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Oortwijn, W. (author), Banta, D. (author), Vondeling, H. (author), Bouter, L. (author), TNO Preventie en Gezondheid (author)This article describes the actual situation at the beginning of 1999 with regard to identification and priority setting for health technology assessment (HTA) on a national level in the Netherlands. For this purpose the literature on HTA published in 1980-1998, mainly national, was thoroughly reviewed. Many policy documents and other reports...article 1999
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TNO Preventie en Gezondheid (author), Dijkstra, A. (author)Een demonstratie tegen zinloos straatgeweld was het begin van een landelijke mediagolf, die meer dan een kwartaal duurde. In deze periode werd geweld op straat een issue van hoge maatschappelijke prioriteit, die in korte tijd een plaats op de politieke agenda bereikte. In dit artikel wordt de vraag onderzocht of deze mediagolf invloed heeft...article 1999
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Oortwijn, W.J. (author), Vondeling, H. (author), Bouter, L. (author), TNO Preventie en Gezondheid (author)Priority setting for the evaluation of health technologies in the Netherlands is exclusively based on the scientific merits of individual research proposals. This process has not resulted in satisfactory allocation of resources. Therefore, societal criteria for setting priorities for health technology assessment have been proposed as an adjunct...article 1998