Measures adopted by indigent mothers in Kilifi County to tackle maternal health challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study (Publications)
Many sub-Saharan African countries have experienced various challenges that threaten the quality of health services offered to the population. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted access to healthcare serv
Cost analysis for “The Magic Glasses Philippines” health education package to prevent intestinal worm infections among Filipino schoolchildren (Publications)
Background: Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections are a significant public health problem affecting over 900 million people globally. Health education has been shown to complement mass drug admin
Hands are frequently contaminated with fecal bacteria and enteric pathogens globally: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Publications)
Enteric pathogen infections are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally, with the highest disease burden in low-income countries. Hands act as intermediaries in enteric pathogen transmissi
Nutrition in City Ecosystems (NICE): protocol of a multi-sectoral development project to improve food and nutrition security of secondary city... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Secondary cities tend to be better linked with local food systems than primate cities, acting as important platforms to trade agricultural produce with rural surrounding. COVID-19, conflic
Long-term exposure to elemental components of fine particulate matter and all-natural and cause-specific mortality in a Danish nationwide... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Fine particulate matter (PM(2.5)) is a well-recognized risk factor for premature death. However, evidence on which PM(2.5) components are most relevant is unclear. METHODS: We evaluated th
AIMSurv: first pan-European harmonized surveillance of <em>Aedes </em>invasive mosquito species of relevance for human vector-borne diseases (Publications)
Human and animal vector-borne diseases, particularly mosquito-borne diseases, are emerging or re-emerging worldwide. Six Aedes invasive mosquito (AIM) species were introduced to Europe since the 1970s
Antigen rapid tests, nasopharyngeal PCR and saliva PCR to detect SARS-CoV-2: a prospective comparative clinical trial (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Nasopharyngeal antigen Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs), saliva RT-PCR and nasopharyngeal (NP) RT-PCR have shown different performance characteristics to detect patients infected by SARS-CoV-
Skin aging associated with chromium among rural housewives in northern China (Publications)
Previous studies have found associations between chromium exposure and skin damage. However, few studies have focused on both chromium and skin aging. This study aimed to assess the degree of skin agi
Integrating neuroscience in psychiatry: a cultural-ecosocial systemic approach (Publications)
Psychiatry has increasingly adopted explanations for psychopathology that are based on neurobiological reductionism. With the recognition of health disparities and the realisation that someone's postc
Molecular detection and genetic characterization of zoonotic hookworm in semi-domesticated cats residing in monasteries in Bangkok, Thailand (Publications)
Hookworms are the most common parasitic nematodes in the genus of Ancylostoma that infect both humans and animals in subtropical and tropical South East Asia. The common hookworm species in cats is An
