Conducting an audit to improve the facilitation of emergency maternal and newborn referral in northern Ghana (Publications)
northern Ghana. The audit took place in 16 facilities with two 3-month cycles of data collection in 2011. Midwife-led teams tracked 446 referred women until they received definitive treatment. Between the
Impact of random and systematic recall errors and selection bias in case-control studies on mobile phone use and brain tumors in adolescents (CEFALO... (Publications)
adults as well as for the interpretation of future studies on adolescents. Bioelectromagnetics (c) 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc
Fifteen years of the tropEd Masters in International Health programme: what has it delivered? Results of an alumni survey of masters students in... (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: In 2010-2011, recent graduates (2008 or earlier) of the Masters in International Health (MIH) (as offered by over 30 universities and institutions collaborating in the tropEd network) were
Systematic review of wireless phone use and brain cancer and other head tumors (Publications)
nt data to make any determinations about longer-term use (> /=10 years). Bioelectromagnetics. (c) 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc
<em>Strongyloides stercoralis</em> infection and re-infection in a cohort of children in Cambodia (Publications)
among 484 children from four primary schools in semi-rural villages in Kandal province from 2009 to 2011, using Koga agar plate culture and the Baermann method on two stool samples per child. Complete data
Use of portable exposure meters for comparing mobile phone base station radiation in different types of areas in the cities of Basel and Amsterdam (Publications)
portable exposure meters (PEMs). METHODS: Data were collected at 12days between November 2010 and January 2011 with PEMs in four different types of urban areas in the cities of Basel (BSL) and Amsterdam (AMS)
Community co-designed schistosomiasis control interventions for school-aged children in Zanzibar (Publications)
public health practitioners and community members from the Zanzibar Islands, Tanzania, between November 2011 and December 2013. During the process, 32 community members participated in a qualitative and quantitative
Inverse trends of <em>Campylobacter </em>and <em>Salmonella</em> in Swiss surveillance data, 1988-2013 (Publications)
during summer months. Campylobacter infections showed a distinct winter peak, particularly in the 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14 winter seasons. Campylobacter case notifications showed more frequent infection
Embedding systematic quality assessments in supportive supervision at primary healthcare level: application of an electronic tool to improve quality... (Publications)
preliminary findings from e-TIQH application are presented from eight councils of Tanzania for the period 2011-2013, with a quality score
Sex-specific associations of cardiovascular risk factors with carotid stiffness - results from the SAPALDIA cohort study (Publications)
evaluated in 2001-2003 and different CS parameters were assessed in carotid ultrasound scans in 2010-2011. Stratified and non-stratified mixed linear models and multivariate regression analyses were used
