Effectiveness of a home-environmental intervention package and an early child development intervention on child health and development in... (Publications)
Unsafe drinking water, poor sanitation and hygiene, exposure to household air pollution and low cognitive and socio-emotional stimulation are risk factors affecting children in low- and middle-income
Strengthening primary healthcare in Kosovo requires tailoring primary, secondary and tertiary prevention interventions and consideration of mental... (Publications)
Objectives: Kosovo has the lowest life expectancy in the Balkans. Primary healthcare (PHC) plays an essential role in non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention. We described primary, secondary and ter
Correcting the description of the design to quasi-experimental instead of cluster-randomized: Corrigendum to “Effect of school-based interventions on... (Publications)
Corrigendum to S Nqweniso, R du Randt, L Adams, et al. Effect of school-based interventions on body composition of grade-4 children from lower socioeconomic communities in Gqeberha, South Africa. S Af
Effectiveness and cost of an incentive-based intervention on food safety and income in "dibiteries" in Dakar, Senegal (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Rapid urbanisation in Sub-Saharan African cities such as Dakar, Senegal, leads to proliferation of informal braised meat restaurants known as "dibiteries". Dibiteries do not often comply w
Cohort profile: the South African HIV Cancer Match (SAM) study, a national population-based cohort (Publications)
Purpose The South African HIV Cancer Match (SAM) Study is a national cohort of people living with HIV (PLWH). It was created using probabilistic record linkages of routine laboratory records of PLWH r
Methods matter: a comparative review of health risk assessments for ambient air pollution in Switzerland (Publications)
Objectives: Air pollution health risk assessments (AP-HRAs) provide a method to quantify health effects for entire populations. In Switzerland, AP-HRAs are included in Swiss assessments for Transport
Number of comorbidities and their impact on perioperative outcome and costs: a single centre cohort study (Publications)
AIMS OF THE STUDY: Multimorbidity is a growing global health problem, resulting in an increased perioperative risk for surgical patients. Data on both the prevalence of multimorbidity and its impact o
Real-time and automated monitoring of antischistosomal drug activity profiles for screening of compound libraries (Publications)
Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease that affects over 200 million people annually. As the antischistosomal drug pipeline is currently empty, repurposing of compound libraries has become a
