Clinical Trials Completed for a New Drug to Treat Parasitic Worm Infections in Infants (News)
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the fight against schistosomiasis in preschool-aged children, previously left untreated under public health programmes,” said Jennifer Keiser, Head of the Helminth Drug Development unit at Swiss TPH and [...] population of preschool-aged children to be included in treatment programmes,” said Peter Steinmann, public health specialist and coordinator of the ADOPT programme at Swiss TPH. [...] Today, the Pediatric Praziquantel Consortium, a public-private partnership dedicated to the development of...
Analytics and Intervention Modelling (Page)
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Group | Analytics and Intervention Modelling Epidemiology and Public Health Health Interventions Analytics and Intervention Modelling Intervention Effectiveness and Impact Malaria Interventions The Analytics [...] strategic plan on community health by providing scenarios for optimized geographical community health worker placement, accounting for travel time, population density and health facility locations. Read more [...] Key Projects Sub-National Tailoring of Malaria Interventions in...
If I tweet will you cite later? Follow-up on the effect of social media exposure on article downloads and citations (Publications)
previously reported results. METHODS: For articles published in the International Journal of Public Health between December 2012 and December 2014, we updated article download and citation data for a minimum [...] citations, such as impact factor, may not capture the added value of social media for scientific publications.
Suicide and transportation noise: a prospective cohort study from Switzerland (Publications)
and suicide as a mortality outcome highly connected to mental disorders presents a pressing public health issue. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between source-specific transportation [...] a pathophysiological point of view, robust evidence for effects of transportation noise on mental health remains scarce. Meanwhile, psychiatric diseases are among the most prevalent noncommunicable diseases
Global Overview of Schistosomiasis Research and Control (News)
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Utzinger, Director of Swiss TPH and co-author of the publication. The WHO target of potential global elimination of schistosomiasis as a public health problem is set for 2025. Research and development for [...] Houphouët-Boigny. About the publication Nature Reviews Disease Primers is a Nature Research journal launched in 2015. Each "Primer" provides a global overview on various health fields and outlines key open [...] at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia and...
Costs of illness due to cholera, costs of immunization and cost-effectiveness of an oral cholera mass vaccination campaign in Zanzibar (Publications)
eness of OCV for this particular campaign from both the health care provider and the societal perspective.METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Public and private COI were obtained from interviews with local [...] BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends oral cholera vaccines (OCVs) as a supplementary tool to conventional prevention of cholera. Dukoral, a killed whole-cell two-dose OCV, was used [...] used in a mass vaccination campaign in 2009 in Zanzibar. Public and private costs...
Noise (Page)
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Exposures and Health Ecosystem Health Sciences Chronic Disease Epidemiology Physical Hazards and Health Related Topics Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) Physical Activity Environment and Health Air Pollution [...] railway and aircraft noise. However, still little is known about mental health effects and most effective interventions to reduce health burden from transportation noise exposure. The TraNQuIL2 study will [...] can trigger a cardiovascular death within two hours. Researchers from the...
Thousands of Visitors Attended Swiss TPH Open House in Allschwil - The Former "Tropeli" Celebrates its 80th Anniversary (News)
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evolution from the Basel "Tropeli" to becoming the largest public health institute in Switzerland. Over 40 activities offer an insight into global health Visitors had the opportunity to conduct experiments in [...] Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH). Today, Swiss TPH is active in 120 countries with 950 staff and students. Its mission has remained the same since 1943: to improve the health of people worldwide [...] into the world of global health. With lectures, activities and...
World Malaria Day 2020: Urgent Action Is Critical to Save Lives (News)
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75%. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 400,000 people die of malaria every year. Based on a model calculation from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), the COVID-19 [...] Christian Lengeler, President of the Swiss Malaria Group and malaria expert at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), adds: "An important lesson to be learned from this exceptional situation [...] national borders. Only by working together can we end malaria and...
Community-based management of epilepsy in Southeast Asia: two intervention strategies in Lao PDR and Cambodia (Publications)
epilepsy by Domestic Health Visitors for epilepsy (DHVes). In Lao PDR, DHVes were health center staff covering several villages via monthly visits; in Cambodia, DHVes were health volunteers living in the [...] countries (LMICs). In Southeast Asia, the prevalence is moderate (6 per thousand), and the main public health challenge is reducing the treatment gap, which reaches more than 90% in rural areas. Methods: