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A complete overview of the Ineqkill Atlas of Mortality Inequalities in Belgium

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ABOUT

  • What has been killing people in Belgium?
  • Why this matters? 
  • Mission Statement
  • Funding
  • Contact

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HOW DISEASE WORKS

  • What is an epidemic
  • How do infections spread?
  • Mosquito-borne diseases
  • Herd immunity
  • Koch’s Postulates
  • History of diseases (coming soon)

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LIFE AND DEATH

  • The epidemiological transition
  • The evolution of life expectancy at birth in Belgium
  • Woman and men do not live as long
  • The risk of dying varies considerably depending on age
  • The spatial dimension of mortality (coming soon)
  • The social dimension of mortality
  • Migrants in modern Belgium
  • Doctors (coming soon)
  • Hospitals (coming soon)

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CAUSES OF DEATH

  • Timeline of the deadliest epidemics in Belgium
  • Cholera: the deadliest epidemic in Belgian history?
  • Cholera in the Belgian countryside
  • Two centuries of heart disease in Belgium
  • The rise of cancer in Belgium real change or better reporting?
  • The cancer burden in Belgium today
  • Dementia: the rise of a leading cause of death and its unequal toll on women
  • Alcohol’s under-estimted death toll
  • Vague causes of death: what can we learn from the ill-defined?
  • Tuberculosis: the 19th century’s silent killer (coming soon)
  • Malaria (coming soon)
  • Measles (coming soon) 
  • Suicide (coming soon)
  • Flu (coming soon)
  • Bronchitis (coming soon)

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SOURCES

  • Databases
  • Literature
  • Glossary