Effect of an integrated intervention package of preventive chemotherapy, community-led total sanitation and health education on the prevalence of... (Publications)
haematobium, Trichuris trichiura, Schistosoma mansoni and Ascaris lumbricoides was 31.1%, 7.0%, 2.0%, 1.0% and 0.3%, respectively. Four of the five intervention communities were classified open-defecation [...] 75.0%, after: 16.7%) and awareness for environmental contamination through open defecation (before: 20.4%, after: 52.2%). CONCLUSIONS: An integrated package of interventions consisting of preventive chemotherapy [...] For hookworm infection, we observed higher negative changes in terms of...
If you can't measure it- you can't change it - a longitudinal study on improving quality of care in hospitals and health centers in rural... (Publications)
benchmarking and facilitates improvement plans. A longitudinal study design was used with 10 facilities (6 hospitals; 4 Health centers) selected out of 36 applications. Data was summarized using means and standard [...] 61%; p < 0.0001). Marked improvements were found in the domains 'Clinical Care' (10.08%; p = 0.0108), 'Management' (13.10%: p < 0.0001), 'Interface In/out-patients' (13.87%; p = 0.0246), and in total (14 [...] 1.5 years of improvement activities are striking,...
If you can't measure it- you can't change it - a longitudinal study on improving quality of care in hospitals and health centers in rural... (Publications)
benchmarking and facilitates improvement plans. A longitudinal study design was used with 10 facilities (6 hospitals; 4 Health centers) selected out of 36 applications. Data was summarized using means and standard [...] 61%; p < 0.0001). Marked improvements were found in the domains 'Clinical Care' (10.08%; p = 0.0108), 'Management' (13.10%: p < 0.0001), 'Interface In/out-patients' (13.87%; p = 0.0246), and in total (14 [...] 1.5 years of improvement activities are striking,...
1 December 2020 09:10 Welcome and Introduction, Kaspar Wyss, Head of Swiss Centre for International Health, Swiss TPH Session 1 | Health Commodities - Access and Stock-Outs 09:20 Universal Health Coverage [...] se Session 2 | Supply Chains – Preparedness and Responsiveness 10:30 Global Fund - Unite to Fight Covid-19, Cathal Meere, Global Fund 10:40 People that Deliver - the Supply Chain Workforce, Alexis Strader [...] Patient: Reshaping Healthcare Supply Chains with Reflections on COVID-19 1...
Determining soil-transmitted helminth infection status and physical fitness of school-aged children (Publications)
due to hookworm disease, ascariasis, and trichuriasis is 22.1, 10.5, and 6.4 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), respectively(4). Furthermore, an estimated 30-100 million people are infected [...] and pruritus, to chronic symptoms, such as anemia, under- and malnutrition, and cognitive impairment(10). Since the symptoms are generally unspecific and subtle, they often go unnoticed, are considered a [...] aged 6-12 years(11,12). This line of scientific inquiry gained new momentum...
Determining soil-transmitted helminth infection status and physical fitness of school-aged children (Publications)
due to hookworm disease, ascariasis, and trichuriasis is 22.1, 10.5, and 6.4 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), respectively(4). Furthermore, an estimated 30-100 million people are infected [...] and pruritus, to chronic symptoms, such as anemia, under- and malnutrition, and cognitive impairment(10). Since the symptoms are generally unspecific and subtle, they often go unnoticed, are considered a [...] aged 6-12 years(11,12). This line of scientific inquiry gained new momentum...
Interventional cardiac catheterization predictors at Al-Arabi Heart Center in Palestine in 2017 (Publications)
on. Multivariate logistic regression showed Troponin (RR = 4.5), Age (RR = 1.0), Female gender (RR = 0.4) previous catheterization (RR = 2.0), and existence of diabetes as significant predictors for r
Vaccines safety; effect of supervision or SMS on reporting rates of adverse events following immunization (AEFI) with meningits vaccine... (Publications)
1 to 4. RESULTS: A total of 348 (77.2%) of 451 health facility were included, and 116 assigned to each of three groups. The incidence rate of reported AEFI per 100 health facility per week was 20.0 (15 [...] (15.9-24.1) in the SMS group, 40.2 (34.4-46.0) in supervision group and 13.6 (10.1-16.9) in the control group. Supervision led to a significant increase of AEFI reporting rate compared to SMS [adjusted RR=2
Implementation of real-time PCR assays for diagnosing intestinal protozoa infections (Publications)
with 20, 25, or 30 mg of emodepside or placebo, aiming to assess protozoa prevalence for this region and emodepside's potential antiprotozoal effects. Our qPCR reliably detected protozoa in 74.4% of samples [...] + Chilomastix mesnili, along with singleplex assays for Giardia duodenalis and Blastocystis spp., using a 10 µL reaction volume. This marks the first molecular detection of Chilomastix mesnili by qPCR, enhancing [...] samples, with Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar in 31....
Vaccines safety; effect of supervision or SMS on reporting rates of adverse events following immunization (AEFI) with meningits vaccine... (Publications)
1 to 4. RESULTS: A total of 348 (77.2%) of 451 health facility were included, and 116 assigned to each of three groups. The incidence rate of reported AEFI per 100 health facility per week was 20.0 (15 [...] (15.9-24.1) in the SMS group, 40.2 (34.4-46.0) in supervision group and 13.6 (10.1-16.9) in the control group. Supervision led to a significant increase of AEFI reporting rate compared to SMS [adjusted RR=2
