Opportunities for a population-based cohort in Belgium.
Cohort
Health information
Population health
Journal
Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique
ISSN: 0778-7367
Titre abrégé: Arch Public Health
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9208826
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
11 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022
Historique:
received:
05
05
2022
accepted:
27
07
2022
entrez:
11
8
2022
pubmed:
12
8
2022
medline:
12
8
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Population-based cohorts allow providing answers to a wide range of policy-relevant research questions. In Belgium, existing cohort-like initiatives are limited by their focus on specific population groups or specific topics, or they lack a true longitudinal design. Since 2016, consultations and deliberative processes have been set up to explore the opportunities for a population-based cohort in Belgium. Through these processes, several recommendations emerged to pave the way forward - i.e., to facilitate the establishment of administrative linkages, increase digitalisation, secure long-term financial and organisational efforts, establish a consortium of the willing, and identify and tackle ethical and legal bottlenecks. This comment summarizes these recommendations, as these opportunities should be explored in depth to consolidate the existing collaborations between different stakeholders, and refers to current initiatives that can further facilitate the establishment of a Belgian population-based cohort and, more generally, administrative and health data linkage and reuse for research and policy-making.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35953875
doi: 10.1186/s13690-022-00949-5
pii: 10.1186/s13690-022-00949-5
pmc: PMC9366127
doi:
Types de publication
Letter
Langues
eng
Pagination
188Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s).
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