The 17th European Public Health Conference, organised by the European Public Health Association (EUPHA), will take place from 13 to 15 November 2024, with pre-conferences organised on 12 November. The conference will be held at the Lisbon Congress Center, Lisbon, Portugal. Complete information about the congress is available via https://ephconference.eu/.
During the conference, the European Burden of Disease Network will contribute to a number of workshops on burden of disease assessment. There will also be several abstract and poster presentations on burden of disease by our network members. Below you will find an overview of the different burden of disease sessions planned at the 17th European Public Health Conference.
Burden of disease workshops and skills building seminars
| Scientific session: Improving health impact assessment in the context of EU policy cycle Wed 13/11, 10h30-11h30 |
| Health impacts methodology in the European Commission — Vitus-Cornelius Van Rij, Belgium |
| Applying knowledge translation for an effective use of Burden of Disease — Henk Hilderink, RIVM, Netherlands |
| Role of epidemiology in the EU policy formulation of chemicals — Eleonora Chinchio, European Commission |
| Round table: Towards a research agenda for burden of disease studies Wed 13/11, 15h15-16h15 |
| Improving transparency: Development of reporting guidelines for burden of disease studies — Brecht Devleesschauwer, Sciensano, Belgium |
| Refining current methods: Including comorbidity adjustment in burden of disease estimates — Michael Porst, RKI, Germany |
| Working on new applications: Use of economic evaluation in burden of disease estimates — Michele Cecchini, OECD, France |
| Working on new topics: Estimation of the burden of zoonotic diseases — Carlotta di Bari, Sciensano, Belgium |
| Scientific session: The importance of using country-specific severity distributions in burden of disease indicators Thu 14/11, 11h45-12h45 |
| Establishing disease models for the Belgian national burden of disease study: challenges and perspectives — Sarah Nayani, Sciensano, Belgium |
| Developing survey instruments for low back and neck pain to improve disease severity estimates for burden of disease assessment — Grant Wyper, PHS, United Kingdom |
| Exploring changes in the distribution of health status in type 2 diabetes over time - methodological aspects for estimating years lost due to disability for Germany — Michael Porst, RKI, Germany |
| Methodological insights into severity distribution of non-fatal cancer burden in Belgium using a microsimulation model (2004-2019) — Robby De Pauw, Sciensano, Belgium |
| Skills building seminar: Using health impact assessment for assessing tobacco control policies Thu 14/11, 15h15-16h15 |
| Calculating potential impact fractions to assess the impact of tobacco control policies — Ute Mons, University of Cologne, Germany |
| DYNAMO-HIA: A health impact assessment tool fit for quantifying tobacco control policy — Stefan Lhachimi, University of Bremen, Germany |
| Populating HIA of tobacco policies with empirical evidence on behavioral response to price increases — Ardine De Wit, RIVM, Netherlands |
| Mind the gap: from real-world policies to health impact assessment modelling — Sarah Croes, Sciensano, Belgium |
| Pecha Kucha: Providing BoD estimates on a regional level – necessity in assessing health inequalities Thu 14/11, 15h15-15h40 |
| Regional inequalities in years of life lost within the European Economic Area: Using the Gini coefficient and slope index of inequality to assess spatial disparities — Orsolya Varga, University of Debrecen, Hungary |
| Addressing Regional Health Disparities: Estonia's Approach to Burden of Disease Studies — Maria Lepnurm, TAI, Estonia |
| Burden of disease and socioeconomic deprivation in Germany – regional patterns and variations — Annelene Wengler, RKI, Germany |
| All-cause Years of life lost due to death at municipality level in Norway. Association to educational attainment and median income — Carl Baravelli, NIPH, Norway |
| Scientific session: Confronting the hidden risks: unveiling the disease burden of chemicals in Europe Fri 15/11, 11h45-12h45 |
| Health consequences of harmful chemicals in foods: insights from the WHO Global Burden of Foodborne Disease Study — Lea Sletting Jakobsen, DTU, Denmark |
| Feasibility of using comparative risk assessment for chemical burden of disease assessments — Dietrich Plass, UBA, Germany |
| Large scale OECD health valuation study to estimate the economic benefits of chemical regulation — Irene Hu, OECD, France |
| Environmental burden of disease related to pyrethroid-insecticide exposure and neurodevelopmental toxicity in Europe based on human biomonitoring — Anthony Purece, VITO, Belgium |
| Evolution and future prospects in quantifying the chemical burden in Portugal — Ricardo Assunção, Egas Moniz, Portugal |
| Skills building seminar: Methods for measuring the true health cost of pollution Thu 14/11, 16h45-17h45 |
| Quantifying the health burden of environmental stressors — Juanita Haagsma, Erasmus MC, Netherlands |
| Measuring the economic impact of environmental stressors on health — João Vasco Santos, University of Porto, Portugal |
| Integrating social inequalities in the burden of environmental stressors — Vanessa Gorasso, Sciensano, Belgium |
| Scientific session: Economics of Mental Health in the interplay between health systems and public health Wed 13/11, 10h30-11h30 |
| The economics of mental ill-health in the EU/EEA — Michele Cecchini, OECD, France |
| Estimating the economic burden of mental and substance use disorders in Belgium — Masja Schmidt, Sciensano, Belgium |
| Social Inequalities in mental health service use and perceived helpfulness: A global analysis across 111 countries — Christoph Henking, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
Burden of disease abstract presentations
| Wednesday 13 November 2024 | |||
| 9h00-10h00 | 1.E. - Oral presentations: Understanding the health implications of environmental challenges | Burden of disease due to ambient particulate matter pollution in Germany from 2010 to 2021 Dietrich Plass, Germany |
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| 9h00-10h00 | 1.E. - Oral presentations: Understanding the health implications of environmental challenges | How ambient NO2 impacts the mortality burden of ischemic heart disease in Portugal (2011-2021) Marta Clemente, Portugal |
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| 9h00-10h00 | 1.E. - Oral presentations: Understanding the health implications of environmental challenges | Health burden and costs attributed to the carbon footprint of health systems in the European Union Jose Chen-Xu, Portugal |
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| 9h00-10h00 | 1.E. - Oral presentations: Understanding the health implications of environmental challenges | How was the impact of heatwaves on daily hospital admissions in Portugal (2000-2018)? Ana Margarida Alho, Portugal |
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| 15h15-16h15 | 3.P. - Pitch presentations: Data, assessments, impact | Using burden of foodborne disease estimates for risk ranking in Denmark Sara Monteiro Pires, Denmark |
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| 16h45-17h45 | 4.E. - Pitch presentations: Effects of environmental exposure | Burden of disease due to road traffic noise in Flanders, Belgium Arno Pauwels, Belgium |
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| 16h45-17h45 | 4.R. - Poster walk: Public health economics | Health & wealth: targeted hygiene reduces the health economic burden of workplace infections Shweta Malik, United Kingdom |
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| Thursday 14 November 2024 | |||
| 9h00-10h00 | 5.P. - Oral presentations: Understanding environmental, social and individual factors | Assessing the contribution of smoking to the disease burden in Belgium, 2013-2020 Sarah Nayani, Belgium |
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| 11h45-12h45 | 6.S. - Poster walk: Chronic diseases and NCDs | Quantifying Cardiovascular Disease Burden and Quality of Care Index across Four Visegrád Countries Mohammed Merzah, Hungary |
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| 11h45-12h45 | 6.S. - Poster walk: Chronic diseases and NCDs | Family function, psychological distress and burden in informal caregivers of people with dementia Marta Nemcikova, Slovakia |
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| 15h15-16h15 | 7.E. - Pitch presentations: Health hazards and impact on health | Burden and economic impact of PM2.5 exposure on Acute Myocardial Infarction in Portugal, 2011-2021 Francisco Madeira, Portugal |
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| Friday 15 November 2024 | |||
| 9h00-10h00 | 9.G. - Oral presentations: Risk factors in the development of NCDs | Contribution of risk factors to the burden of major illness: a microsimulation in England, 2023-2043 Anna Head, United Kingdom |
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| 11h45-12h45 | 10.L. - Oral presentations: Health policies matter | Alcohol policy and alcohol-attributed disease burden in Finland and the Baltic countries 1995-2019 Anastasia Månsson, Sweden |
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Burden of disease poster displays
| DE - Chronic diseases and NCDs | DE.28 - Disability-adjusted life years 19 former socialist economies in the European region, 1990 - 2019 Milena Šantrić Milićević, Serbia |
| DE - Chronic diseases and NCDs | DE.39 - Mortality and causes of death in Serbia: redistribution of garbage codes to ischemic heart disease Željka Stamenković, Serbia |
| DE - Chronic diseases and NCDs | DE.41 - Impact of Noncommunicable Diseases on Years of Life Lost in FB&H During the COVID-19 Pandemic Šeila Cilović Lagarija, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| DE - Chronic diseases and NCDs | DE.42 - Impact of Malignant Neoplasms on Years of Life Lost in FB&H During the COVID-19 Pandemic Sinisa Skočibušić, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| DE - Chronic diseases and NCDs | DE.43 - Mortality due to ischemic stroke in Serbia after redistribution of the inaccurately coded deaths Jovana Todorovic, Serbia |
| DE - Chronic diseases and NCDs | DE.52 - The burden of psoriasis in Belgium, 2021 Rani Claerman, Belgium |
| DE - Chronic diseases and NCDs | DE.53 - Burden of inflammatory bowel disease in Belgium, 2020 Rani Claerman, Belgium |
| DE - Chronic diseases and NCDs | DE.84 - Temporal trends, regional and socio-economic disparities of colorectal cancer burden in Cyprus Andri Assiotou, Cyprus |
| DF - Climate change / Urban health | DF.7 - Urban burden of disease estimation for policy making Georgia Dyer, Spain |
| DG - Environment and health / Planetary Health | DG.22 - Estimation of Environmental Burden of Disease related to Arsenic exposure in European Populations Carla Martins, Portugal |
| DG - Environment and health / Planetary Health | DG.46 - The burden of lung cancer attributable to ambient PM2.5 exposure: a systematic literature review Mariana Corda, Portugal |
| DG - Environment and health / Planetary Health | DG.50 - Health burden and economic costs of vector-borne diseases in Italy: the AUSL Romagna case Marco Monti, Italy |
| DG - Environment and health / Planetary Health | DG.59 - Cancer mortality attributable to air pollution in Slovakia Jarmila Pekarcikova, Slovakia |
| DH - Epidemiology | DH.24 - Gender Differences in Years of Life Lost resulting from the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal Margo Tonnelier, Belgium |
| DK - Health assessments: impact, technology | DK.4 - Novel R package to quantify and monetize burden of disease attributable to air pollution and noise Axel Luyten, Switzerland |
| DP - Infectious diseases control | DP.38 - Uncovering the health system burden of pneumococcal infections in adult and elderly populations Zach Desson, Belgium |
| DT - Public health economics | DT.2 - Financial burden and coping mechanism for stomach and pancreatic cancer Mohit Pandey, India |
| DT - Public health economics | DT.3 - Solutions for reducing the severe economic burden of musculoskeletal diseases Marjetka Jelenc, Slovenia |
| DT - Public health economics | DT.8 - Economic burden of suicide in Sweden in 2022 Inna Feldman, Sweden |
| DU - Public health monitoring, reporting and foresight | DU.18 - The burden of sepsis in Italy: an analysis of treatable mortality trends Andrea Sanna, Italy |
| DU - Public health monitoring, reporting and foresight | DU.19 - Diabetes mellitus EU comorbidity index: using data from EHIS 2019 and GBD disability weights Nour Mahrouseh, Hungary |
| DU - Public health monitoring, reporting and foresight | DU.64 - Preventing dementia is possible. The fraction of cases attributable to modifiable factors in Italy Rosaria Gallo, Italy |
| DV - Public health policy and politics | DV.5 - Reception of health data using the Australian Burden of Disease study as an example Aline Anton, Germany |
| DV - Public health policy and politics | DV.16 - Exploring Burden of Disease Metrics in EU legislation: A Systematic Analysis Jose Chen-Xu, Portugal |
| DW - Public mental health | DW.87 - Systematic review of burden&quality of life in caregivers of children with schizophrenia (SyREN) Marta Caminiti, Italy |
