Effect of ambient air pollution on hospital admission for respiratory diseases in Hanoi children during 2007-2019 (Publications)
of hospital admissions per 10 μg/m(3) increase in daily average particulate matter (e.g. PM(1), PM(2.5), PM(10)), Sulfur Dioxide (SO(2)), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO(2)), 8-h maximum Ozone and per 1000 μg/m(3) [...] Hanoi by using the coefficient at lag 0. A 10 μg/m(3) increase in the concentration of PM(10), PM(2.5), PM(1), SO(2), NO(2), O(3) 8-h maximum and 1000 μg/m(3) increase in CO concentration was associated [...] upper respiratory diseases are related to increments in NO(2) and CO. For...
HIV care preferences among young people living with HIV in Lesotho: a secondary data analysis of the PEBRA cluster randomized trial (Publications)
compared to 8 of 123 (6.5%) after 12 months. Among those selecting clinic-based ART refill, many preferred collecting ART during the peer educator led Saturday clinic club, 45 of 123 (36.5%) at the beginning [...] at the end. SMS reminders for treatment adherence and ART refill visits were chosen by 51 of 123 (41.5%) at enrolment and 54 of 123 (44.7%) at the last assessment. Support by the peer educator was popular
Association between household solid fuel use and tuberculosis: cross-sectional data from the Mongolian national tuberculosis prevalence survey (Publications)
ratio (aOR): 1.5; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.1-2.1), male gender (aOR: 2.2; 95% CI: 1.6-3.2), divorced or widowed (aOR: 2.6; 95% CI: 1.7-3.8), daily smoker (aOR: 1.8; 95% CI: 1.3-2.5), contact with [...] with an active TB case (aOR: 1.7; 95% CI: 1.2-2.3), being underweight (aOR: 3.7; 95% CI: 2.4-5.7), and previous history of TB (aOR: 4.3; 95% CI: 3.0-6.1) were significantly associated with bacteriologically
Improving quality of medical certification of causes of death in health facilities in Tanzania 2014-2019 (Publications)
cause-specific mortality fractions due to unusable causes reduced from 27.4 to 13.5%. CONCLUSION: Data from less than 5% of annual deaths in Tanzania are usable for informing policy. For deaths with medical [...] MCCD ICD-10 codes were usable for health policy and planning, with no significant improvement over 5 years. Of certified deaths, 25% had unusable codes, 17% had insufficiently specified codes, and 6% were
Symptoms and functional limitations related to respiratory health and carbon monoxide poisoning in Tanzania: a cross sectional study (Publications)
had the lowest SpCO (median 5%), followed by participants cooking with charcoal (median 7%). Cooking with wood, particularly using a stove, resulted in highest SpCO (median 11.5%). Participants from households [...] the lowest SpCO as compared to cooking outside or cooking in a shared room inside (6% vs. 9% vs.10.5%, p < 0.01). Sex or the activity of cooking itself was not associated with a difference in SpCO. Mu
Parental and provider vaccine hesitancy and non-timely childhood vaccination in Switzerland (Publications)
Vaccines (PACV) 5-item survey instrument to 1256 parents and their children's pediatricians (N = 112, 40 CM-oriented, 72 biomedical [not CM-oriented]) to identify moderately (PACV-score 5-6) and highly [...] hesitant CM providers had 3.3 higher odds of non-timely vaccination for the 1st dose of measles and 3.5 higher odds for 1st dose of polio/pertussis/tetanus. CONCLUSION: VH by both parents and providers each
Identification of oleamide in <em>Guatteria</em> recurvisepala by LC/MS-Based <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> thioredoxin reductase ligand binding... (Publications)
20-min gradient of 95 % B consisting of (A) 0.1 % formic acid in 95 % H (2)O-5 % ACN, and (B) 0.1 % formic acid in 95 % ACN-5% H (2)O in an LC-QTOF-MS. Tandem MS of the protonated molecule M/Z 282.2792 [...] ligand identified in the extract of GUATTERIA RECURVISEPALA displayed a relative binding affinity of 3.5-fold when incubated with 1 microM PFTrxR. The ligand corresponding to the protonated molecule M/Z 282
Sonography to rule out tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa: a prospective observational study (Publications)
= 2.48; 95% CI, 1.52-5.03; P = .001 per degrees C increase) remained associated with tuberculosis. A combination of > /=1 FASH sign, abnormal chest x-ray, and temperature > /=37.5 degrees C had 99.1% [...] analyzed patients with a 6-month follow-up, 52.4% tested positive for human immunodeficiency virus, 21.5% had clinically suspected pulmonary tuberculosis, 3.7% had extrapulmonary tuberculosis, and 74.9% had
Greywater recycling for diverse collection scales and appliances: enteric pathogen log-removal targets and treatment trains (Publications)
ter spp., viruses: rotavirus, norovirus, adenovirus, and Coxsackievirus B5) in the greywater streams for collection scales of 5-, 100-, and a 1000-people. Using quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) [...] infections per person per year over 10'000 Monte Carlo iterations. LRTs were highest for norovirus at the 5-people scale and for adenovirus at the 100- and 1000-people scales. Example treatment trains were designed
Mapping implementation strategies to reach community-dwelling older adults in Northwest Switzerland (Publications)
adults and caregivers. "Informational visits" was the strategy with the lowest coverage (2.5% for nursing homes and 10.5% for hospitals and specialized clinics). The main referral sources were self-referrals [...] and referrals by caregivers, followed by nursing homes. The IAC reach among the 65 + population was 5.4%. CONCLUSION: We demonstrated the use of implementation mapping to select implementation strategies