Incidental radiological findings during clinical tuberculosis screening in Lesotho and South Africa: a case series (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Chest X-ray offers high sensitivity and acceptable specificity as a tuberculosis screening tool, but in areas with a high burden of tuberculosis, there is often a lack of radiological expe
Changes in healthcare utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic and potential causes : a cohort study from Switzerland (Publications)
Objectives: To describe the frequency of and reasons for changes in healthcare utilization in those requiring ongoing treatment, and to assess characteristics associated with change, during the second
Health system resilience: a critical review and reconceptualisation (Publications)
This Viewpoint brings together insights from health system experts working in a range of settings. Our focus is on examining the state of the resilience field, including current thinking on definition
A semi-field evaluation in Thailand of the use of human landing catches (HLC) versus human-baited double net trap (HDN) for assessing the impact of a... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The mosquito landing rate measured by human landing catches (HLC) is the conventional endpoint used to evaluate the impact of vector control interventions on human-vector exposure. Non-exp
Starting at the community: treatment-seeking pathways of children with suspected severe malaria in Uganda (Publications)
Community health workers (CHW) usually refer children with suspected severe malaria to the nearest public health facility or a designated public referral health facility (RHF). Caregivers do not alway
Prevalence and associated risk factors of intestinal parasitic infections among children in pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities in the Adadle... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Intestinal parasitic infections (IPIs) can cause illness, morbidity, and occasional mortality in children. Agro-pastoralist and pastoralist children in the Somali Regional State of Ethiopi
SAPALDIA und LUDOK – lufthygienische Wissensplattformen zum Thema gesundheitliche Auswirkungen der Aussenluftverschmutzung (Publications)
Seit 30 Jahren erforscht die SAPALDIA-Kohorte mit assoziierter Biobank die gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen von Luftschadstoffen sowie des breiteren Exposoms. Die Studie wird in enger Zusammenarbeit mit
Long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Publications)
Objectives: We report results of a systematic review on the health effects of long-term traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) and diabetes in the adult population. Methods: An expert Panel appointed by
Spatio-temporal modelling of routine health facility data for malaria risk micro-stratification in mainland Tanzania (Publications)
As malaria transmission declines, the need to monitor the heterogeneity of malaria risk at finer scales becomes critical to guide community-based targeted interventions. Although routine health facili
How do disease control measures impact spatial predictions of schistosomiasis and hookworm? The example of predicting school-based prevalence before... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth infections are among the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affecting primarily marginalized communities in low- and middle-income countries.
