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1. Untapped potential of health impact assessment (Publications)

   Untapped potential of health impact assessment

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   The World Health Organization has promoted health impact assessment (HIA) for over 20 years. At the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), HIA was discussed as a critical

2. Health-related quality of life in rural children living in four European countries: the GABRIEL study (Publications)

   Health-related quality of life in rural children living in four European countries: the GABRIEL study

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   OBJECTIVE: Measuring children's health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is of growing importance given increasing chronic diseases. By integrating HRQOL questions into the European GABRIEL study, we as

3. Spatial analysis and risk mapping of soil-transmitted helminth infections in Brazil, using Bayesian geostatistical models (Publications)

   Spatial analysis and risk mapping of soil-transmitted helminth infections in Brazil, using Bayesian geostatistical models

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   Soil-transmitted helminths (Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworm) negatively impact the health and wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people, particularly in tropical and subtropic

4. Spatio-temporal statistics: applications in epidemiology, veterinary medicine and ecology (Publications)

   Spatio-temporal statistics: applications in epidemiology, veterinary medicine and ecology

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   Not available.

5. Motivation and incentives of rural maternal and neonatal health care providers: a comparison of qualitative findings from Burkina Faso, Ghana and... (Publications)

   Motivation and incentives of rural maternal and neonatal health care providers: a comparison of qualitative findings from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania

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   BACKGROUND: In Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania strong efforts are being made to improve the quality of maternal and neonatal health (MNH) care. However, progress is impeded by challenges, especially

6. HIV due to female sex work: regional and global estimates (Publications)

   HIV due to female sex work: regional and global estimates

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   INTRODUCTION: Female sex workers (FSWs) are at high risk of HIV infection. Our objective was to determine the proportion of HIV prevalence in the general female adult population that is attributable t

7. "Quality of prenatal and maternal care: bridging the know-do gap" (QUALMAT study): an electronic clinical decision support system for rural... (Publications)

   "Quality of prenatal and maternal care: bridging the know-do gap" (QUALMAT study): an electronic clinical decision support system for rural Sub-Saharan Africa

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   BACKGROUND: Despite strong efforts to improve maternal care, its quality remains deficient in many countries of Sub-Saharan Africa as persistently high maternal mortality rates testify. The QUALMAT st

8. Coverage, adherence and costs of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in children employing different delivery strategies in Jasikan, Ghana (Publications)

   Coverage, adherence and costs of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in children employing different delivery strategies in Jasikan, Ghana

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   BACKGROUND: Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in children (IPTc) involves the administration of a course of anti-malarial drugs at specified time intervals to children at risk of malaria re

9. Quantitative structure: antiprotozoal activity relationships of sesquiterpene lactones (Publications)

   Quantitative structure: antiprotozoal activity relationships of sesquiterpene lactones

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   Prompted by results of our previous studies where we found high activity of some sesquiterpene lactones (STLs) against Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (which causes East African sleeping sickness), we

10. Chronic lung function decline in cotton textile workers: roles of historical and recent exposures to endotoxin (Publications)

    Chronic lung function decline in cotton textile workers: roles of historical and recent exposures to endotoxin

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    BACKGROUND: Long-term occupational exposure to cotton dust that contains endotoxin is associated with chronic respiratory symptoms and excessive decline in forced expiratory volume in 1 sec (FEV1), bu