The 16th European Public Health Conference, organised by the European Public Health Association (EUPHA), took place from 9 to 11 November 2023, with pre-conferences organised on 8 November. The conference was held at the Convention Centre Dublin, Ireland. Complete information about the congress is available via https://ephconference.eu/.
During the conference, our COST Action contributed to live workshops on burden of disease assessment. There were also 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 held at the 16th European Public Health Conference.
Burden of disease workshops and skills building seminars
| Workshop: Data, tools and methodologies on injury burden in Europe: current limitations and future directions Fri 10/11, 15h10-16h10 • View the abstract |
| A new Norwegian Injury Registration System as a starting point to assess the burden of injuries in Norway — Johan Lund, NIPH, Norway View the abstract |
| Barriers in the implementation of burden of disease estimates in Belgium and potential solutions — Robby De Pauw, Sciensano, Belgium View the abstract |
| Data collection and analysis on the burden of injuries: Lessons learned from the IDB network — Robert Bauer, Austria View the abstract |
| Methodological challenges in collecting and analysing data on child unintentional injuries: Insights from the CHILD Vigilance project (CHIVI) on parents’ attitudes and practices — Tatiana Alves, Portugal View the abstract |
| Workshop: Projecting future burden of disease for informed public health decision making Sat 11/11, 11h40-12h40 • View the abstract |
| Disease burden in Norway in 2050: A forecasting analysis based on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study — Ann Kristin Knudsen, NIPH, Norway View the abstract |
| Future Dutch DALYs as part of the Dutch Public health Foresight Study — Henk Hilderink, RIVM, Netherlands View the abstract |
| Forecasting the future burden of disease in Scotland — Ian Grant, Public Health Scotland, UK View the abstract |
| Disease burden in Belgium in 2040: Methodological considerations — Robby De Pauw, Sciensano, Belgium View the abstract |
| Workshop: Risk-benefit assessment of foods and diets for a sustainable future Sat 11/11, 14h00-15h00 • View the abstract |
| Risk-benefit assessment of foods – status, challenges, and opportunities — Sofie Theresa Thomsen, DTU, Denmark View the abstract |
| Holistic approaches for risk-benefit assessment — Constanza De Matteu Monteiro, DTU, Denmark View the abstract |
| Exploring subjective risk-benefit perception as an integral component in risk communication — Mark Lohmann, BfR, Germany View the abstract |
| The World Health Organization endeavours to put forward integrated approaches to food and diet risk-benefit assessment — Moez Sanaa, World Health Organization, Switzerland View the abstract |
Burden of disease abstract presentations
| Thursday 9 November 2023 | ||
| 9h00–10h00 | 1.E. - Oral presentations: Air pollution | Local approach to attributable disease burden: case study for air pollution and mortality in Belgium Arno Pauwels - Belgium View the abstract |
| 9h00–10h00 | 1.R. - Reducing health inequity | Sociodemographic features of COVID-19 premature mortality: Serbian individual-level data evidence Aleksandar View the abstract |
| 10h30–11h30 | 2.E. - Workshop: Salutogenic Cities: European experiences in Urban Health | The urban burden of disease estimation for policy-making in 1000 European cities Vlatka Matkovic - Belgium View the abstract |
| 10h30–11h30 | 2.R. - Poster walk: Chronic diseases | The burden of breast cancer attributable to modifiable risk factors Jovana Todorovic - Serbia View the abstract |
| 10h30–11h30 | 2.R. - Poster walk: Chronic diseases | Assessing and projecting the burden of diabetes mellitus in the European Union by 2030 Nour Mahrouseh - Hungary View the abstract |
| 16h40–17h40 | 4.B. - Pitch presentations: One Health, infectious diseases | Disease costs due to outdoor ambient particulate matter pollution in Germany, 2018 Dietrich Plass - Germany View the abstract |
| 16h40–17h40 | 4.E. - Pitch presentations: Environment and health | The burden of ischemic stroke due to air pollution in ten European countries Katarina Vojvodic - Serbia View the abstract |
| Friday 10 November 2023 | ||
| 11h40–12h40 | 6.D. - Pitch presentations: The burden of chronic diseases | Subnational inequalities in YLLs and associated socioeconomic factors: a disease burden study Carl Baravelli - Norway View the abstract |
| 11h40–12h40 | 6.R. - Poster walk: Epidemiology | Sex differences in disease burden in Norway: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 Ingeborg Forthun - Norway View the abstract |
| 11h40–12h40 | 6.R. - Poster walk: Epidemiology | Mortality burden due to COVID-19 in 14 countries or regions in Southeastern Europe and Central Asia Caoimhe Cawley - Germany View the abstract |
| 15h10–16h10 | 7.R. - Poster walk: Epidemiology 2 | Burden of dementia, chronic kidney and cardiovascular diseases attributable to hypertension in France Clemence Grave - France |
| 15h10–16h10 | 7.R. - Poster walk: Epidemiology 2 | The burden of cardiovascular disease associated with PM2.5 exposure in the Portuguese population Carla Martins - Portugal View the abstract |
| Saturday 11 November 2023 | ||
| 9h00–10h00 | 9.A. - Pitch presentations: Healthy diets | The burden of dietary risk factors in the Nordic and Baltic countries Ann Kristin Knudsen - Norway View the abstract |
| 9h00–10h00 | 9.G. - Oral presentations: Health assessments: impact, technology | Health impact assessment of the chemical exposome in European children Audrey Rocabois - France View the abstract |
| 9h00–10h00 | 9.S. - COVID-19 experiences | Which burden of COVID-19 was greater: main diagnosis or comorbidity? Milena Šantrić Milićević - Serbia View the abstract |
| 9h00–10h00 | 9.S. - COVID-19 experiences | Years Lived with Disability due to COVID-19 in the capital of Serbia in 2020 and 2021 Natasa Rosic - Serbia View the abstract |
| 11h40–12h40 | 10.D. - Oral presentations: Prevention and management of chronic diseases | Burden of T1DM and T2DM among adolescents in Western Europe, 1990-2019: results from the GBD 2019 Benedetta Armocida - Italy View the abstract |
| 11h40–12h40 | 10.L. - Oral presentations: Understanding population health | Estimating the burden of Long COVID symptom clusters in Ireland Tochukwu Igboanugo - Ireland View the abstract |
| 13h50–14h50 | 11.O. - Oral presentations: Child and adolescent health | Quantifying the environmental burden of disease for children and adolescents in Germany Dietrich Plass - Germany View the abstract |
Burden of disease poster displays
| DF - Chronic diseases | DF.39 - DALY attributable to air pollution associated with tracheal, bronchus, and lung cancer in Europe Katarina Vojvodic - Serbia View the abstract |
| DJ - Epidemiology | DJ.23 - Patterns in tobacco attributed mortality in Belgium for 2019 Leonor Guariguata - Belgium View the abstract |
| DJ - Epidemiology | D.46 - Burden of heart failure in Kazakhstan: data from the unified national healthcare system 2014-2021 Gulnur Zhakhina - Kazakhstan View the abstract |
| DU - Policy, politics and public health | DU.5 - Burden Estimation of SAR-CoV-2 (COVID-19) in Ireland over the First Full two years of the pandemic Tochukwu Igboanugo - Ireland View the abstract |
