Measuring health facility readiness and its effects on severe malaria outcomes in Uganda (Publications)
There is paucity of evidence for the role of health service delivery to the malaria decline in Uganda We developed a methodology to quantify health facility readiness and assessed its role on severe m
The context of emergency contraception use among young unmarried women in Accra, Ghana: a qualitative study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Over the past decade, awareness and use of emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) among young women has rapidly increased in Ghana; however, the rate of unintended pregnancy among this group
Recent advances on <em>Dirofilaria repens</em> in dogs and humans in Europe (Publications)
Dirofilaria repens is a nematode affecting domestic and wild canids, transmitted by several species of mosquitoes. It usually causes a non-pathogenic subcutaneous infection in dogs and is the principa
The HPAfrica protocol: assessment of health behaviour and population-based socioeconomic, hygiene behavioural factors - a standardised repeated... (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: The objective of the Health Population Africa (HPAfrica) study is to determine health behaviour and population-based factors, including socioeconomic, ethnographic, hygiene and sanitatio
Environmental public health risks in European metropolitan areas within the EURO-HEALTHY project (Publications)
Urban areas in Europe are facing a range of environmental public health challenges, such as air pollution, traffic noise and road injuries. The identification and quantification of the public health r
Elusive cranial lesions severely afflicting young endangered Patagonian huemul deer (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: Most subpopulations of endangered huemul deer (Hippocamelus bisulcus) fail to recover, frequently due to osteopathology. Equivalent pathology was detected only postmortem in an additional