Community health outreach program of the Chad-Cameroon petroleum development and pipeline project (Publications)
regular household surveys for in-depth appraisal of health-seeking and asset indices, is the most promising source of data for impact measurement of health, poverty, and equity-related issues. It will facilitate [...] promptly can address pressing public health issues as they arise (eg, epidemic outbreak) and include the needs and demands of the concerned communities. An innovative feature of the current project is the [...] and local NGOs designated for the implementation of the selected public...
Reducing ambient levels of fine particulates could substantially improve health: a mortality impact assessment for 26 European cities (Publications)
mely, the adoption of new standards for fine particulate matter (PM(2.5)), have generated a broad debate about choosing the air quality standards that can best protect public health. The Apheis network [...] more stringent standards need to be adopted in Europe to protect public health, as proposed by the scientific community and the World Health Organization [...] Parliament, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the World Health Organization, respectively. The Apheis network provided the ...
Introducing vouchers for malaria prevention in Ghana and Tanzania: context and adoption of innovation in health systems (Publications)
There are striking similarities in health system and other contexts between Tanzania and Ghana that are relevant to the scaling up of continuous delivery of insecticide treated nets (ITNs) for malaria [...] discount vouchers into the health system. Discount vouchers require arrangements among the public, private and non-governmental sectors and constitute a complex intervention in both health systems and business [...] Tanzania was an important and clearly enabling difference, as was public...
Industrial contaminated sites and health: results of a European survey (Publications)
Sites and Health Network (ICSHNet) comprises a European network of experts and institutions to clarify needs and priorities for better characterising the impact on environment and health of ICS. OBJECTIVES: [...] data availability or methodologies, could be due to absence of data, or to the fact that the reporting person (many of them from the public health sector) did not know how to reach the environmental information [...] report over a list of 99 ICSs previously identified. RESULTS:...
Impact of social accountability monitoring on health facility performance: evidence from Tanzania (Publications)
increasingly used to improve the performance of public service providers in low-income settings. Despite their growing popularity, evidence on the effectiveness of social accountability programs remains mixed [...] improve facility infrastructure maintenance. The results of this study suggest that social accountability programs may be effective in areas of health service provision that are responsive to changes in provider [...] mixed. In this manuscript, we assess the impact of a social...
Deconstructing design thinking as a tool for the implementation of a population health initiative (Publications)
yet widely taught as part of public health training. CONCLUSIONS: Design thinking is a sound and viable tool to use as part of an implementation strategy for engaging with health system stakeholders and [...] systematic and coherent nature of this approach, with different resulting actions progressively accounting for all relevant layers of the health system to engineer a broad selection of specific implementation [...] BACKGROUND: The translation of evidence-based practices and rapid uptake of...
A network analysis of patient referrals in two district health systems in Tanzania (Publications)
and network-level determinants of patient referrals focusing on treatment of childhood illnesses and non-communicable diseases. We use data collected across all public health facilities in the districts in [...] Patient referral systems are fragile and overlooked components of the health system in Tanzania. Our study aims at exploring patient referral networks in two rural districts in Tanzania, Kilolo and Msalala [...] network analysis tools. To explore the determinants of referrals, we use...
Can big data be used to monitor the mental health consequences of COVID-19? (Publications)
approaches, part of a growing field called digital epidemiology, could help identify populations in need of mental health support during the current pandemic. More specifically, sentiment analysis of content posted [...] pandemic has profound mental health consequences [1]. Yet, opportunities to monitor and mitigate mental health problems in this context remain scarce [2]. At the same time, nearly half of the world’s population [...] popular social media platforms, combined with detection of...
Health education and the control of intestinal worm infections in China: a new vision (Publications)
direct impact that health education can have in improving knowledge and awareness, and in changing hygiene behaviour. Further, it can provide insight into the public health outcomes of a multi-component [...] transmission of soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) is associated with poverty, poor hygiene behaviour, lack of clean water and inadequate waste disposal and sanitation. Periodic administration of benzimidazole [...] testing in Hunan province, PR China, of a health education package to...
Medicinal plant preparations administered by Botswana traditional health practitioners for treatment of worm infections show anthelmintic activities (Publications)
Botswana has begun mass drug administration with the hope of eliminating soil-transmitted helminths as a public health problem, the prevalence of schistosomiasis does not meet the threshold required to warrant [...] Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths are some of the priority neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) targeted for elimination by the World Health Organization (WHO). They are prevalent in Botswana and [...] used by traditional health practitioners against worm infections were...