Schweizer Kohorte mit Biobank: Notwendige Basis für Public-Health-Forschung und grosse Langzeitstudien (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/impact-stories/schweizer-kohorte-mit-biobank-notwendige-basis-fuer-public-health-forschung-und-grosse-langzeitstudien/blog-id/64
Wir leben in einer Zeit, in der Public-Health-Innovationen möglicherweise mehr zu Lebensverlängerung und Lebensqualität beitragen als medizinische Innovationen. Von dieser Idee lässt sich SAMW-Vorstan
Competence Centre for Epidemiological Outbreak Investigations (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/competence-centre-for-epidemiological-outbreak-investigations
In Switzerland, foodborne infections such as listeriosis, salmonellosis or campylobacteriosis are notifiable diseases and are under close surveillance by the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOP
High-frequency changes in pilin glycosylation patterns during <em>Neisseria meningitidis</em> serogroup a meningitis outbreaks in the African... (Publications)
In the meningitis belt of sub-Saharan Africa, there are cyclic meningococcal epidemics that coincide with clonal waves of Neisseria meningitidis carriage and invasive disease. In the framework of long
Long-term air pollution exposure and malignant intracranial tumours of the central nervous system: a pooled analysis of six European cohorts (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Risk factors for malignant tumours of the central nervous system (CNS) are largely unknown. METHODS: We pooled six European cohorts (N = 302,493) and assessed the association between resid
Changes in Healthcare Utilization During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Potential Causes-A Cohort Study From Switzerland (Publications)
Objectives: To describe the frequency of and reasons for changes in healthcare utilization in those requiring ongoing treatment, and to assess characteristics associated with change, during the second
Dynamic electronic decision trees to manage childhood illness (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/dynamic-electronic-decision-trees-to-manage-childhood-illness
Every year in low- and middle-income countries, more than 5 million children under the age of 5 years die from preventable illnesses due to poor clinical management at the primary health care level. I
World Zoonoses Day: The Jigjiga One Health Initiative (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/impact-stories/world-zoonoses-day-the-jigjiga-one-health-initiative/blog-id/20
The specific needs of nomadic pastoralist communities are often not considered in public services. This is also the case in the health sector. In Ethiopia, the Swiss Agency for Development and Coopera
Legionnaires' disease in Switzerland: rationale and study protocol of a prospective national case-control and molecular source attribution study... (Publications)
Switzerland has one of the highest annual Legionnaires' disease (LD) notification rates in Europe (7.8 cases/100,000 population in 2021). The main sources of infection and the cause for this high rate