Publications

Abakar M.F, Seli D, Lechthaler F, Crump L, Mancus A, Tran N, Zinsstag J, Muñoz D.C. Evaluation of the feasibility and sustainability of the joint human and animal vaccination and its integration to the public health system in the Danamadji health district, Chad. Health Res Policy Syst. 2021;19(Suppl 2):44. DOI: 10.1186/s12961-021-00688-z

Abdikadir M.I. Public health and economic importance of livestock diseases with the emphasis on zoonoses including brucellosis, Q-fever and Rift Valley Fever in Somali region, Ethiopia. Basel: Univ. Basel, 2021. PhD Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Science

AbouZahr C, Bratschi M.W, Cercone E, Mangharam A, de Savigny D, Dincu I, Forsingdal A.B, Joos O, Kamal M, Fat D.M, Mathenge G, Marinho F, Mitra R.G, Montgomery J, Muhwava W, Mwamba R, Mwanza J, Onaka A, Sejersen T.B, Tuoane-Nkhasi M, Sferrazza L, Setel P. The COVID-19 pandemic: Effects on civil registration of births and deaths and on availability and utility of vital events data. Am J Public Health. 2021;111(6):1123-1131. DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306203

Addo S.O, Mensah G.I, Mosi L, Abrahams A, Bonfoh B, Kazwala R, Zinsstag J, Addo K.K. Trends in extrapulmonary TB cases at three teaching hospitals in Ghana, 2008-2017. Public Health Action. 2021;11(1):26-32. DOI: 10.5588/pha.20.0061

Adegnika A.A, Amuasi J.H, Basinga P, Berhanu D, Medhanyie A.A, Okwaraji Y.B, Persson L.A, Savadogo B, Schellenberg J, Steinmann P. Embed capacity development within all global health research. BMJ Glob Health. 2021;6(2):e004692. DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004692

Aebi N.J, Caviezel S, Schaefert R, Meinlschmidt G, Schwenkglenks M, Fink G, Riedo L, Leyhe T, Wyss K, SomPsyNet Consortium. A qualitative study to investigate Swiss hospital personnel's perceived importance of and experiences with patient's mental-somatic multimorbidities. BMC Psychiatry. 2021;21:349. DOI: 10.1186/s12888-021-03353-5

Aebi N.J, de Ridder D, Ochoa C, Petrovic D, Fadda M, Elayan S, Sykora M, Naslund J.A, Mooney S.J, Gruebner O. Can big data be used to monitor the mental health consequences of COVID-19?. Int J Public Health. 2021;66:633451. DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2021.633451

Agboli E, Zahouli J.B.Z, Badolo A, Jost H. Mosquito-associated viruses and their related mosquitoes in West Africa. Viruses. 2021;13(5):891. DOI: 10.3390/v13050891

Agorinya I.A, Ross A, Flores G, Edejer T.T, Dalaba M.A, Mensah N.K, Le M.L, Dessie Y, Sumboh J, Oduro A.R, Tediosi F. Effect of specificity of health expenditure questions in the measurement of out-of-pocket health expenditure: evidence from field experimental study in Ghana. BMJ Open. 2021;11:e042562. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042562

Aikins M, Tabong P.T, Salari P, Tediosi F, Asenso-Boadi F.M, Akweongo P. Positioning the national health insurance for financial sustainability and universal health coverage in Ghana: a qualitative study among key stakeholders. PLoS One. 2021;16(6):e0253109. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0253109

Akweongo P, Aikins M, Wyss K, Salari P, Tediosi F. Insured clients out-of-pocket payments for health care under the national health insurance scheme in Ghana. BMC Health Serv Res. 2021;21:440. DOI: 10.1186/s12913-021-06401-8

Akweongo P, Chatio S.T, Owusu R, Salari P, Tediosi F, Aikins M. How does it affect service delivery under the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana? Health providers and insurance managers perspective on submission and reimbursement of claims. PLoS One. 2021;16(3):e0247397. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247397

Alagna R, Cabibbe A.M, Miotto P, Saluzzo F, Köser C.U, Niemann S, Gagneux S, Rodrigues C, Rancoita P.V.M, Cirillo D.M. Is the new WHO definition of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis easy to apply in practice?. Eur Respir J. 2021;58:2100959. DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00959-2021

Alaimo Di Loro P, Divino F, Farcomeni A, Jona Lasinio G, Lovison G, Maruotti A, Mingione M. Nowcasting COVID-19 incidence indicators during the Italian first outbreak. Stat Med. 2021(in press). DOI: 10.1002/sim.9004

Aliee M, Castaño S, Davis C.N, Patel S, Miaka E.M, Spencer S.E.F, Keeling M.J, Chitnis N, Rock K.S. Predicting the impact of COVID-19 interruptions on transmission of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis in two health zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2021;115(3):245-252. DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/trab019

Alkhaldi M, Al Basuoni A, Matos M, Tanner M, Ahmed S. Health technology assessment in high, middle, and low-income countries: new systematic and interdisciplinary approach for sound informed-policy making: research protocole. Risk Manag Healthc Policy. 2021;14:2757–2770. DOI: 10.2147/RMHP.S310215

AlKhaldi M, James N, Chattu V.K, Ahmed S, Meghari H, Kaiser K, Jsselmuiden C.I, Tanner M. Rethinking and strengthening the Global Health Diplomacy through triangulated nexus between policy makers, scientists and the community in light of COVID-19 global crisis. Glob Health Res Policy. 2021;6:12. DOI: 10.1186/s41256-021-00195-2

AlKhaldi M, Meghari H, Jillson I.A, Alkaiyat A, Tanner M. State of research quality and knowledge transfer and translation and capacity strengthening strategies for sound health policy decision-making in Palestine. Int J Public Health. 2021;66:620425. DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2020.1781914

Allabadi H, Alkaiyat A, Zahdeh T, Assadi A, Ghanayim A, Hasan S, Abu Al Haj D, Allabadi L, Haj-Yahia S, Schindler C, Kwiatkowski M, Zemp E, Probst-Hensch N. Posttraumatic stress disorder predicts poor health-related quality of life in cardiac patients in Palestine. PLoS One. 2021;16(7):e0255077. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255077

Amstutz A, Matsela L, Lejone T.I, Kopo M, Glass T.R, Labhardt N.D. Reaching absent and refusing individuals during home-based HIV testing through self-testing-at what cost?. Front Med (Lausanne). 2021;8:653677. DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2021.653677

Angora K.E. Population genetic structure and hybridization of schistosomes in schoolchildren in Côte d’Ivoire. Basel: Univ. Basel, 2021. PhD Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Science

Anufriyeva V, Pavlova M, Stepurko T, Groot W. The validity and reliability of self-reported satisfaction with healthcare as a measure of quality: a systematic literature review. Int J Qual Health Care. 2021;33(1):mzaa152. DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzaa152

Anufriyeva V, Pavlova M, Stepurko T, Groot W. Patient satisfaction and patient experience are not interchangeable concepts - authors' reply. Int J Qual Health Care. 2021;33(1):mzab024. DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzab024

Arafa R.K, Ismail M.A, Wenzler T, Brun R, Paul A, Wilson W.D, Alakhdar A.A, Boykin D.W. New antiparasitic flexible triaryl diamidines, their prodrugs and aza analogues: synthesis, in vitro and in vivo biological evaluation, and molecular modelling studies. Eur J Med Chem. 2021;222:113625. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2021.113625

Arn Karoline. Christian Lengeler: Malaria breitet sich wieder aus [Internet]. Zürich: SRF, 2021. [Date Accessed: 21.04.2021]. Available from: https://podcasts.srf.ch/world/audio/Tagesgespraech_21-04-2021-1300.1619006356184.mp3

Arnskötter W, Marcar V.L, Wolf M, Hund-Georgiadis M, Hediger K. Animal presence modulates frontal brain activity of patients in a minimally conscious state: a pilot study. Neuropsychol Rehabil. 2021(in press). DOI: 10.1080/09602011.2021.1886119

Arowosegbe O.O, Röösli M, Künzli N, Saucy A, Adebayo-Ojo T.C, Jeebhay M.F, Dalvie M.A, de Hoogh K. Comparing methods to impute missing daily ground-level PM10 concentrations between 2010-2017 in South Africa. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021;18(7):3374. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18073374

Asare P, Osei-Wusu S, Baddoo N.A, Bedeley E, Otchere I.D, Brites D, Loiseau C, Asante-Poku A, Prah D.A, Borrell S, Reinhard M, Omari M.A, Forson A, Koram K.A, Gagneux S, Yeboah-Manu D. Genomic epidemiological analysis identifies high relapse among individuals with recurring tuberculosis and provides evidence of household recent TB transmission in Ghana. Int J Infect Dis. 2021;106:13-22. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2021.02.110

Asmall T, Abrams A, Röösli M, Cissé G, Carden K, Dalvie M.A. The adverse health effects associated with drought in Africa. Sci Total Environ. 2021;793:148500. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148500

Assaré R.K, Tra-Bi M.I, Coulibaly J.T, Corstjens P.L.A.M, Ouattara M, Hürlimann E, van Dam G.J, Utzinger J, N'Goran E.K. Accuracy of two circulating antigen tests for the diagnosis and surveillance of Schistosoma mansoni infection in low-endemicity settings of Côte d'Ivoire. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021(in press)

Baerlocher S, Helfenstein S, Mahr A, Crippa S, Garcia Boy R, Kahlert C.R, Yurttas T, Hatz C, Kohler P. Leptospirosis followed by kawasaki-like disease: case report from an adult Swiss patient and review of the literature. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021;8(4):ofab088. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofab088

Bärenbold O, Garba A, Colley D.G, Fleming F.M, Assaré R.K, Tukahebwa E.M, Kebede B, Coulibaly J.T, N'Goran E.K, Tchuem Tchuenté L.A, Mwinzi P, Utzinger J, Vounatsou P. Estimating true prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni from population summary measures based on the Kato-Katz diagnostic technique. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021;15(4):e0009310. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009310

Baroutsou V, Hatz C, Blanke U, Haile S.R, Fehr J, Neumayr A, Puhan M.A, Bühler S. TOURIST2 - tracking of urgent risks in Swiss travellers to the 6 main travel destinations - feasibility and ethical considerations of a smartphone application-based study. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2021;39:101912. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101912

Baumann A, Wyss K. The shift from inpatient care to outpatient care in Switzerland since 2017: policy processes and the role of evidence. Health Policy. 2021;125(4):512-519. DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.01.012

Becker S.L, Gauer A, Thurner L. Fatigue, weight loss, hypotension and electrolyte imbalance after a long-term stay in Thailand: a diagnostic challenge. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2021;41:102063. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102063

Beckmann J, Lang C, du Randt R, Gresse A, Long K.Z, Ludyga S, Müller I, Nqweniso S, Pühse U, Utzinger J, Walter C, Gerber M. Prevalence of stunting and relationship between stunting and associated risk factors with academic achievement and cognitive function: a cross-sectional study with South African primary school children. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021;18:4218. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18084218

Beloconi A, Probst-Hensch N, Vounatsou P. Spatio-temporal modelling of changes in air pollution exposure associated to the COVID-19 lockdown measures across Europe. Sci Total Environ. 2021;787:147607. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147607

Benhamou J, Schindler C, Rutishauser J. Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in an inpatient population in the Swiss Canton of Basel-Country. Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w20470. DOI: 10.4414/smw.2021.20470

Berger-González M, Pelikan K, Zinsstag J, Ali S.M, Schelling E. Transdisciplinary research and One Health. In: Zinsstag J,Schelling E,Waltner-Toews D,Whittaker M,Tanner M, eds. One Health: the theory and practice of integrated health approaches, 57-70. Wallingford: CABI, 2021

Bevkal S, Naguleswaran A, Rehmann R, Kaiser M, Heller M, Roditi I. An Alba-domain protein required for proteome remodelling during trypanosome differentiation and host transition. PLoS Pathog. 2021;17:e1009239. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009239