Searched for "2024".

1. Cross-border integrated One Health Surveillance-response System between Kenya and Ethiopia (Projects)

   Cross-border integrated One Health Surveillance-response System between Kenya and Ethiopia

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   communities, reducing their burden will improve the people’s health and their socioeconomic status.1.8.2024

2. Mental health of individuals at increased suicide risk after hospital discharge and initial findings on the usefulness of a suicide prevention project... (Publications)

   Mental health of individuals at increased suicide risk after hospital discharge and initial findings on the usefulness of a suicide prevention project in Central Switzerland

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   former patients of Lucerne Psychiatry with an increased suicide risk. Between March 2023 and March 2024, we collected data from 24 individuals through a questionnaire administered six months post-discharge

3. Non-Communicable Diseases (Page)

   Non-Communicable Diseases

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   Well-Being through the Life Course Urban Health Latest News All News 19.05.2025 Swiss TPH Annual Report 2024 Is Out Now! 12.05.2025 Main Causes of Death Among the Elderly in Switzerland Vary by Region 04.04

4. Infectious Diseases (Page)

   Infectious Diseases

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   SwissTB Award for Study on Transmission’s Role in TB Drug Resistance 19.05.2025 Swiss TPH Annual Report 2024 Is Out Now!

5. MSc in Infection Biology (Page)

   MSc in Infection Biology

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   with a BSc in a different branch will be assessed individually. Minimum Entry Requirements (as of 2024): A minimum average grade of at least 5/unrounded (Swiss grading system 1 to 6, where 6=max. / 4=pass)

6. Swiss TPH Conference: Beat the Heat – Cities Under Heat Stress (News)

   Swiss TPH Conference: Beat the Heat – Cities Under Heat Stress

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   Health (FOPH) and the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). The latest figures show: In summer 2024, around 326 deaths were attributed to heat. It was the sixth warmest summer in Switzerland since records

7. Early Testing for Legionella Improves Pneumonia Care (News)

   Early Testing for Legionella Improves Pneumonia Care

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   from 204 cases of Legionnaires’ disease treated at 20 hospitals across Switzerland between 2022 and 2024. While current Swiss and European guidelines recommend routine Legionella testing in all hospitalised

8. VIentiane mulTi gEneRational BIrth Cohort (Projects)

   VIentiane mulTi gEneRational BIrth Cohort

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   pressure and hemoglobin levels. Currently, no statistical analyses are planned. Results: As of April 2024, the study has enrolled 3’500 pregnant women and 4’579 family members. Study participation is ongoing

9. Digital support systems to improve child health and development in Peru: protocol for a randomized controlled trial (Publications)

   Digital support systems to improve child health and development in Peru: protocol for a randomized controlled trial

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   2021 and ended in March 2023. Endline assessments will take place between August 2023 and September 2024. CONCLUSIONS: This study is, to our knowledge, the first to rigorously assess the effectiveness and

10. Fine-scale-mapping of <em>Schistosoma haematobium</em> infections at the school and community levels and intermediate host snail abundance in the... (Publications)

    Fine-scale-mapping of <em>Schistosoma haematobium</em> infections at the school and community levels and intermediate host snail abundance in the north of Pemba Island: baseline cross-sectional survey findings before the onset of a 3-year intervention stu

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    published in 2020 and 2022. The SchistoBreak project, implemented in Pemba, Tanzania between 2020 and 2024, aims to assess new tools and strategies for shifting from elimination as a public health problem