The burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in the WHO European region in 2019: a cross-country systematic analysis (Publications)
resistance (AMR) represents one of the most crucial threats to public health and modern health care. Previous studies have identified challenges with estimating the magnitude of the problem and its downstream [...] approach consisted of five broad components: the number of deaths in which infection had a role, the proportion of infectious deaths attributable to a given infectious syndrome, the proportion of infectious syndrome [...] attributable to a given pathogen, the percentage of a given...
Revising the WHO verbal autopsy instrument to facilitate routine cause-of-death monitoring (Publications)
compiled enabling mapping of all ICD-10 CoD onto 62 VA cause categories, chosen on the grounds of public health significance as well as potential for ascertainment from VA. A set of 221 indicators for inclusion [...] including those from WHO, the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and their Health in Developing Countries (INDEPTH) Network, InterVA, and the Population Health Metrics Research Consortium (PHMRC). In an expert [...] [with mapping to the International Classification of Diseases...
75 Years of Tropical Medicine in Switzerland (News)
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collaboration within the various subfields of global health and the broad public. Juerg Utzinger, Director of Swiss TPH, is the President of SSTMP. To order a hard copy of the chronicle, please contact Daniel [...] history of these two organisations has remained closely linked since. A chronicle on the history of SSTMP now sheds light on the past 75 years: from colonial medicine to today's global health network. [...] Chronicle of Tropical Medicine in Switzerland On 31st August 2017, the Swiss...
Control of schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa: progress made, new opportunities and remaining challenges (Publications)
and social sciences research, inclusive of public health interventions with monitoring and evaluation activities. New opportunities for integrating the control of schistosomiasis and other so-called neglected [...] progress made in the control of schistosomiasis in Egypt, China and Brazil, however, with more than 97% of the schistosome infections now estimated to occur in Africa, the relevance of this special issue in [...] overemphasized. In total, 18 articles are presented, inclusive of a...
Triclabendazole for the treatment of fascioliasis and paragonimiasis (Publications)
liver flukes (Fasciola) and lung flukes (Paragonimus), are emerging public health problems. Several hundred millions of people are at risk of the two diseases that cause considerable morbidity and delay so [...] treatment of fascioliasis. Moreover, the drug holds promise as a useful therapeutic alternative to praziquantel in the treatment of paragonimiasis. This review of triclabendazole includes an overview of the [...] summarised and the current state of triclabendazole regarding treatment of...
Introducing insecticide-treated nets in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania: the relevance of local knowledge and practice for an information, education... (Publications)
reinforced public health messages and linked them with nets and insecticide. Although we did not directly evaluate the impact of promotional activities, the sharp rise in ownership and use of ITNs by the [...] recommending an integrative strategy to combat malaria including new medicines, vaccines, improvements of health care systems and insecticide-treated nets (ITNs). After successful controlled trials with ITNs in [...] focus on operational issues of distribution and financing. In developing...
Men benefit more from midlife leisure-time physical activity than women regarding the development of late-life disability - results from the KORA-age... (Publications)
cohort, a follow-up in 2008 of the MONICA (Multinational Monitoring of Trends and Determinants in Cardiovascular Diseases)/KORA (Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg) S1-S4 surveys (1984-2001) [...] OBJECTIVE: Encouraging physical activity is an important public health measure to reduce disability prevalence in the aged. The aims of this study were to determine the association between midlife physical [...] Elevated physical activity reduces the risk of becoming disabled and...
Cultural epidemiology of TB with reference to gender in Bangladesh, India and Malawi (Publications)
women. Public health services were preferred in Malawi, and private doctors in India and Bangladesh. CONCLUSION: Cross-site analysis of these studies has identified features of TB that influence the burden [...] causes of TB, and women in Malawi reported sexual causes associated with HIV/AIDS. In Bangladesh, exaggerated concerns about the risk of spread despite treatment contributed to social isolation of women [...] India and Malawi. OBJECTIVE: To identify and compare socio-cultural features o...
Gender and community views of stigma and tuberculosis in rural Maharashtra, India (Publications)
vignettes depicting a person with typical features of TB. The study clarified features of TB-related stigma. Concealment of disease was explained as fear of losing social status, marital problems and hurtful [...] both men and women with TB share a psychological burden of unfulfilled social responsibilities. The distinction between public health risks of infection and unjustified social isolation (stigma) was ambiguous [...] (TB) is often regarded as a barrier to health seeking and a cause of...
Behavior of sunbed users in Switzerland (Publications)
view of a continuing increase in the number of skin cancer cases the improvement of preventive strategies for sunbed users is of major importance. Another urgent requirement is informing the public and [...] Although natural UV radiation is the major source, exposure due to use of sunbeds must be considered from the point of view of prevention. METHODS: 151 sunbed users in Bern and Basel were questioned on [...] desire for relaxing and well-being in the warmth and light. Although most of the...