Can working with the private for-profit sector improve utilization of quality health services by the poor? A systematic review of the literature (Publications)
BACKGROUND: There has been a growing interest in the role of the private for-profit sector in health service provision in low- and middle-income countries. The private sector represents an important s
Primary health care supervision in developing countries (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: To (a) summarise opinion about what supervision of primary health care is by those advocating it; (b) compare these features with reports describing supervision in practice; and (c) to app
Diagnostic de malaria chez le praticien: comment gérer (Publications)
Malaria is the disease to exclude when dealing with a patient coming back from an endemic area with fever. We need reliable diagnostic tools with negative likelihood ratio (LR-) close to zero (-> high
Advancing the field of health systems research synthesis [Commentary] (Publications)
Those planning, managing and working in health systems worldwide routinely need to make decisions regarding strategies to improve health care and promote equity. Systematic reviews of different kinds
Heat effects on mortality in 15 European cities (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Epidemiologic studies show that high temperatures are related to mortality, but little is known about the exposure-response function and the lagged effect of heat. We report the associatio
Exposure to indoor mould and children's respiratory health in the PATY study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Living in a damp or mouldy home reportedly damages children's respiratory health, yet mould appears not to be a prominent risk factor in the public's perception. Analyses of data on over 5