Improving environmental sanitation, health, and well-being: a conceptual framework for integral interventions (Publications)
We introduce a conceptual framework for improving health and environmental sanitation in urban and peri-urban areas using an approach combining health, ecological, and socioeconomic and cultural asses
Atmospheric heavy metal deposition in Northern Vietnam: Hanoi and Thainguyen case study using the moss biomonitoring technique, INAA and AAS (Publications)
BACKGROUND, AIM, AND SCOPE: The moss technique is widely used to monitor atmospheric deposition of heavy metals in many countries in Europe, whereas this technique is scarcely used in Asia. To impleme
Personal exposure assessment studies may suffer from exposure-relevant selection bias (Publications)
We evaluated exposure-relevant selection bias within the framework of a study on personal air pollution exposure, using traffic data as exposure proxy. Based on random samples of 3000 (Basel) and 2532
Nutzen Behandlungsempfehlungen in psychiatrischen versicherungsrechtlichen Gutachten?[Treatment Recommendations in Psychiatric Disability Insurance... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: In recent years the total number of people drawing a pension - especially for psychiatric reasons - from Switzerland's Federal Disability Insurance ("IV") has been steadily climbing. As we
Application of a diffusion charger for the measurement of particle surface concentration in different environments (Publications)
Particle surface area has recently been considered as a possible metric in an attempt to correlate particle characteristics with health effects. In order to provide input to such studies, two Nanopart