Coping with emerging public health problems (Page)
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as we age is far more complex, but the benefits of doing so are twofold. Firstly, far more people around the world die from cardiovascular diseases than from infections. The second aspect is that, int [...] unison on the human body, determining their disease-causing effect is only possible in the context of sufficiently extensive studies in which diverse factors are recorded and measured in the participants [...] pioneering role in long-term studies with the SAPALDIA study. SAPALDIA is the...
Obstacles to prompt and effective malaria treatment lead to low community-coverage in two rural districts of Tanzania (Publications)
education, the biomedical concept of malaria has largely been adopted by the community. 87.5% (78.2-93.8) of the fever cases in children and 80.7% (68.1-90.0) in adults were treated with one of the recommended [...] Health facility attendance increased the odds of receiving an antimalarial (OR = 7.7) but did not have an influence on correct dosage. The exemption system for under-fives in public health facilities [...] ls. Yet, quality of case-management was far from satisfactory as was the...
Obstacles to prompt and effective malaria treatment lead to low community-coverage in two rural districts of Tanzania (Publications)
education, the biomedical concept of malaria has largely been adopted by the community. 87.5% (78.2-93.8) of the fever cases in children and 80.7% (68.1-90.0) in adults were treated with one of the recommended [...] Health facility attendance increased the odds of receiving an antimalarial (OR = 7.7) but did not have an influence on correct dosage. The exemption system for under-fives in public health facilities [...] ls. Yet, quality of case-management was far from satisfactory as was the...
Hybrid Learning Brings New Possibilities (Page)
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prepared in advance in the form of video sequences. The electronic preparation of the material means an enormous amount of work for those responsible for the course and the lecturers, but the three are convinced [...] drawn to the MBA-IHM, as Barbara Bürkin hears again and again from applicants or interested parties. "One big draw is the interconnectedness of the content - the research, which is extensive, the many research [...] access to the degree," Hoffmann says. "There is a huge incentive f...
Water, sanitation, hygiene, and soil-transmitted helminth infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Publications)
Studies were eligible for inclusion if they provided an estimate for the effect of WASH access or practices on STH infection. We assessed the quality of published studies with the Grades of Recommendation [...] was low due to the preponderance of observational studies, though recent randomized controlled trials have further underscored the benefit of handwashing interventions. Limited use of the Joint Monitoring [...] sanitation definitions in the literature restricted efforts to generalize...
Water, sanitation, hygiene, and soil-transmitted helminth infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Publications)
Studies were eligible for inclusion if they provided an estimate for the effect of WASH access or practices on STH infection. We assessed the quality of published studies with the Grades of Recommendation [...] was low due to the preponderance of observational studies, though recent randomized controlled trials have further underscored the benefit of handwashing interventions. Limited use of the Joint Monitoring [...] sanitation definitions in the literature restricted efforts to generalize...
Heckman-type selection models to obtain unbiased estimates with missing measures outcome: theoretical considerations and an application to missing... (Publications)
biomarkers or clinical assessments are often missing for a substantial proportion of the study population. The aim of this study was to assess the extent to which Heckman-type selection models can create unbiased [...] METHODS: We introduce the basic Heckman model in a first stage, and then use simulation models to compare the performance of the model to alternative approaches used in the literature for missing outcome data [...] illustrate the empirical relevance of this method. RESULTS: All...
Heckman-type selection models to obtain unbiased estimates with missing measures outcome: theoretical considerations and an application to missing... (Publications)
biomarkers or clinical assessments are often missing for a substantial proportion of the study population. The aim of this study was to assess the extent to which Heckman-type selection models can create unbiased [...] METHODS: We introduce the basic Heckman model in a first stage, and then use simulation models to compare the performance of the model to alternative approaches used in the literature for missing outcome data [...] illustrate the empirical relevance of this method. RESULTS: All...
Distribution of survival times of deliberate <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infections in tertiary syphilis patients (Publications)
results suggest that the best fit is obtained from the Gompertz or Weibull distributions. This result has important implications for mathematical modelling of malaria, which has for the past century exclusively [...] exclusively assumed that the duration of malaria infections has an exponential distribution. It is desirable to know the correct distribution because its shape profoundly influences the length of monitoring [...] falciparum between 1940 and 1963 as a treatment for neurosyphilis in t...
Distribution of survival times of deliberate <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infections in tertiary syphilis patients (Publications)
results suggest that the best fit is obtained from the Gompertz or Weibull distributions. This result has important implications for mathematical modelling of malaria, which has for the past century exclusively [...] exclusively assumed that the duration of malaria infections has an exponential distribution. It is desirable to know the correct distribution because its shape profoundly influences the length of monitoring [...] falciparum between 1940 and 1963 as a treatment for neurosyphilis in t...
