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1. Smoking cessation in workplace settings: quit rates and determinants in a group behaviour therapy programme (Publications)

   Smoking cessation in workplace settings: quit rates and determinants in a group behaviour therapy programme

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   INTRODUCTION: To capitalise on the opportunities that the smoking ban legislation in Switzerland offers for the prevention of tobacco-related diseases, a smoking cessation programme in a workplace set

2. Measuring progress and projecting attainment on the basis of past trends of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: an... (Publications)

   Measuring progress and projecting attainment on the basis of past trends of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

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   BACKGROUND: The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are grounded in the global ambition of "leaving no one behind". Understanding today's gains and gaps for the health-related SDGs is essential

3. Malaria case management by community health workers in the Central African Republic from 2009-2014: overcoming challenges of access and instability... (Publications)

   Malaria case management by community health workers in the Central African Republic from 2009-2014: overcoming challenges of access and instability due to conflict

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   BACKGROUND: In the Central African Republic (CAR), decades of armed conflict have crippled the public health system. This has left the population without timely access to life-saving services and ther

4. A systematic review of land use regression models for volatile organic compounds (Publications)

   A systematic review of land use regression models for volatile organic compounds

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5. Immunohistochemical investigations of treatment with Ro 13-3978, praziquantel, oxamniquine and mefloquine in <em>Schistosoma mansoni-</em>infected... (Publications)

   Immunohistochemical investigations of treatment with Ro 13-3978, praziquantel, oxamniquine and mefloquine in <em>Schistosoma mansoni-</em>infected mice

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   To date there is only one drug in use, praziquantel, to treat more than 250 million people afflicted with schistosomiasis, a debilitating parasitic disease. The aryl hydantoin Ro 13-3978 is a promisin

6. Residential air pollution and associations with wheeze and shortness of breath in adults: a combined analysis of cross-sectional data from two large... (Publications)

   Residential air pollution and associations with wheeze and shortness of breath in adults: a combined analysis of cross-sectional data from two large European cohorts

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   BACKGROUND: Research examining associations between air pollution exposure and respiratory symptoms in adults has generally been inconclusive. This may be related in part to sample size issues, which

7. Physical activity and health-related quality of life among schoolchildren from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Port Elizabeth, South Africa (Publications)

   Physical activity and health-related quality of life among schoolchildren from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Port Elizabeth, South Africa

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   PURPOSE: The relationship between health-related quality of life (HRQoL), physical activity (PA), and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) among disadvantaged communities in low- and middle-income countrie

8. The contribution of malaria control interventions on spatio-temporal changes of parasitaemia risk in Uganda during 2009-2014 (Publications)

   The contribution of malaria control interventions on spatio-temporal changes of parasitaemia risk in Uganda during 2009-2014

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   BACKGROUND: In Uganda, malaria vector control interventions and case management with Artemisinin Combination Therapies (ACTs) have been scaled up over the last few years as a result of increased fundi

9. Beyond immune escape: a variant surface glycoprotein causes suramin resistance in <em>Trypanosoma brucei</em> (Publications)

   Beyond immune escape: a variant surface glycoprotein causes suramin resistance in <em>Trypanosoma brucei</em>

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   Suramin is one of the first drugs developed in a medicinal chemistry program (Bayer, 1916), and it is still the treatment of choice for the hemolymphatic stage of African sleeping sickness caused by T

10. Estimating the burden of scrub typhus: a systematic review (Publications)

    Estimating the burden of scrub typhus: a systematic review

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    BACKGROUND: Scrub typhus is a vector-borne zoonotic disease that can be life-threatening. There are no licensed vaccines, or vector control efforts in place. Despite increasing awareness in endemic re