Is the ebb of asthma due to the decline of allergic asthma? A prospective consultation-based study by the Swiss Sentinel Surveillance Network,... (Publications)
Surveillance Network (SSSN) since 1989. The objective of the actual study was to determine the influence of the allergic and non-allergic components of asthma on time trends from 1999 to 2005. METHODS: Primary [...] other used marker of allergic asthma, slightly increased among young children. CONCLUSIONS: The decrease of consultations for asthma is most probably due to the allergic component of asthma. Diagnostic [...] allergic component of asthma. Diagnostic shift over time and available...
Effectiveness and equity of the Tanzania National Voucher Scheme for mosquito nets over 10 years of implementation (Publications)
LEARNED: The effectiveness of the TNVS was a function of several interdependent factors, including the supply chain of vouchers through the public health system; the supply chain of nets in the commercial [...] the Ministry of Health that provided pregnant women and infants with highly subsidized (long-lasting) insecticide-treated nets between 2004 and 2014. It was implemented in the context of the National [...] and implemented. RESULTS: The TNVS reached the majority of beneficiaries with...
Exposure of <em>Heligmosomoides polygyrus</em> and <em>Trichuris muris</em> to albendazole, albendazole sulfoxide, mebendazole and oxantel pamoate... (Publications)
contents and mucosa of the small and large intestine, and the plasma) were determined using HPLC-UV/vis and anthelmintic activities were recorded using phenotypic readout. The influence of 1-aminobenzotriazole [...] did not change the levels of albendazole or its metabolites in the plasma of mice harboring H. polygyrus or in H. polygyrus, whereas drug levels in the gastrointestinal tract of host mice doubled. Mebendazole [...] Millions of people are treated with anthelmintics to control...
A good night's sleep and the habit of net use: perceptions of risk and reasons for bed net use in Bukoba and Zanzibar (Publications)
acknowledged the malaria-prevention benefits of net use, the exploration of the risk and comfort determinants of net use provides a richer understanding of net use behaviours, particularly in a setting [...] when the threat of malaria has been reduced, this qualitative study sought to understand how changes in perceived risk influence LLIN usage, and to explore in more detail the benefits of net use that are [...] interventions in the United Republic of Tanzania have contributed to reductions in...
Re-evaluating our knowledge of health system resilience during COVID-19: lessons from the first two years of the pandemic (Publications)
framework: i) What do we understand about the dimensions of resilience? ii) What aspects of the resilience dimensions remain uncertain? iii) What aspects of the resilience dimensions are missing from the COVID-19 [...] following the pandemic. The eventual consequences of system changes and the resilience of subsystems are underexplored. Through governance, the concept of health system resilience can be linked to wider [...] resilience in relation to COVID-19, excluding articles on psychological...
Perspective of asylum-seeking caregivers on the quality of care provided by a Swiss paediatric hospital: a qualitative study (Publications)
the perspective of asylum-seeking caregivers on the quality of healthcare delivered to their children in a qualitative in-depth interview study. The health of asylum-seeking children is of key interest for [...] satisfaction of healthcare delivery: a respectful and trusting caregiver-provider relationship, the presence of interpreters and immediate availability of treatment. CONCLUSIONS: A mismatch of personal c [...] Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research. The number of interviews was...
The effects of medicines availability and stock-outs on household's utilization of healthcare services in Dodoma region, Tanzania (Publications)
address shortages of medicines. However, data are lacking on how medicine availability and stock-outs influence access to health services in Tanzania. The current study assesses the effects of medicine availability [...] generally, and these were continuously available in approximately 70% of the time in facilities across all districts over 3 months of review. The main analysis showed that household's healthcare utilization [...] cross-sectional study that combined information from households...
Engaging men in women's empowerment: impact of a complex gender transformative intervention on household socio-economic and health outcomes in the... (Publications)
(coefficient = 0.927; p = 0.001). We did not find enough statistically significant evidence of the influence of the intervention on skilled birth attendance (coefficient = 0.943; p = 0.135), or family planning [...] BACKGROUND: In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, women in (peri-)urban areas are commonly engaged in small trade, which allows them to meet the basic needs of their families. Microsaving approaches [...] regardless of being in the intervention or control area. CONCLUSION:...
Fitness cost of drug resistance in <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> (Publications)
(XDR)--forms of tuberculosis are growing public health problems. Mathematical models predict that the future of the MDR and XDR tuberculosis epidemics depends in part on the competitive fitness of drug-resistant [...] illustrate how heterogeneity among drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis can influence the relative fitness and transmission of this pathogen are reviewed
Ultrastructural changes in midgut cells of female <em>Aedes aegypti</em> L. (Insecta, Diptera) after starvation or sugar diet (Publications)
ultrastructure of the epithelial cells in the posterior part of the midgut in female Aedes aegypti was partly changed after starvation periods of 5 or 8 days. Most obvious is a drastic reduction of the amount [...] amount of rough endoplasmic reticulum (rer), which is responsible for the synthesis of enzymes for blood digestion. A similar influence on rer membranes is to be observed in mosquitoes fed on sucrose solution