Peer-reviewed Research Articles
Vandeninden B, Devleesschauwer B, Otavova M, Vanpoucke C, Hooyberghs H, Faes C, Bouland C, De Clercq E. (2025). Implications of spatial and seasonal air pollution patterns, socioeconomic disparities, and 15-minute communities for achieving WHO air quality guidelines. Scientific Reports. 15.
Vandeninden B, De Clercq E, Devleesschauwer B, Otavova M, Masquelier B, Fierens F, Faes C, Bouland C. (2025). Impact assessment of local traffic interventions on disease burden: A case study on paediatric asthma incidence in two European cities. Journal of Transport & Health. Volume 40.
Vandeninden B, De Clercq E, Devleesschauwer B, Otavova M, Bouland C, Faes C. (2024). Cluster pattern analysis of environmental stressors and quantifying their impact on all-cause mortality in Belgium. BMC Public Health. 24.
Otavova M, Masquelier B, Faes C, Van den Borre L, De Clercq E, Vandeninden B, Devleesschauwer B. (2023). Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific premature mortality in Belgium, 1998-2019. BMC Public Health.
Otavova M, Masquelier B, Faes C, Van den Borre L, Bouland C, De Clercq E, Vandeninden B, De Bleser A, Devleesschauwer B. (2023). Measuring small-area level deprivation in Belgium: The Belgian Index of Multiple Deprivation. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. Volume 45.
Otavova M, Faes C, Bouland C, De Clercq E, Vandeninden B, Eggerickx T, Sanderson JP, Devleesschauwer B, Masquelier B. (2022). Inequalities in mortality associated with housing conditions in Belgium between 1991 and 2020. BMC Public Health 22, 2397.
Putrik P, Otavova M, Faes C, Devleesschauwer B. (2022). Variation in smoking-attributable all-cause mortality across municipalities in Belgium, 2018: application of a Bayesian approach for small area estimations. BMC Public Health 22, 1699.
Otavova M, Van Oyen H, Yokota RTC et al. (2020). Potential impact of reduced tobacco use on life and health expectancies in Belgium. International Journal of Public Health 65, 129–138.
Research Reports
Ahrenfeldt LJ, Otavova M, Christensen K, Lindahl-Jacobsen R. (2021) Sex and age differences in COVID-19 mortality in Europe. Wien Klin Wochenschr.;133(7-8):393-398.
Blogs and Media Coverage
"Les personnes vivant dans un quartier défavorisé ont deux fois plus de risques de décéder prématurément" (People living in a disadvantaged neighborhood are twice as likely to die prematurely). Trends. 16.01.2024 (In French)
"Vivre dans la pauvreté, c’est risquer deux fois plus de décéder avant 75 ans" (Living in poverty means risking twice as much falling before the age of 75). Le Soir. 11.01.2024 (In French)
"Où les inégalités de santé sont-elles les plus élevées ? Le nouvel outil de Sciensano et l’UCLouvain les dévoile dans une cartographie" (Where are health inequalities the highest? Sciensano's new tool and UCLouvain unveiled in a map). RTBF. 11.01.2024 (In French)
"Premature deaths in Belgium twice as likely for people from poor neighborhoods". The Brussels Times. 12.01.2024