The adverse health effects associated with drought in Africa (Publications)
African countries. The drought-related health effects identified were on adverse nutritional health (n = 8) including malnutrition resulting in reduced body size and wasting, stunting and underweight, mortality
The INSPIRE population survey: development, dissemination and respondent characteristics (Publications)
prior to the dissemination of the questionnaire. RESULTS: The overall response rate was 30.7% (n = 8,846), with variations between 20.6 and 34.5% across the different care regions in the canton. A generally
How are academic achievement and inhibitory control associated with physical fitness, soil-transmitted helminth infections, food insecurity and... (Publications)
METHODS: The sample of this cross-sectional study consisted of 1277 children (48% girls, mean age: 8.3 years). Data were assessed via questionnaires, stool samples, anthropometric measurements, 20 m shuttle
Sedentary behavior in children by wearable cameras: development of an annotation protocol (Publications)
were collected in 3 different samples of children in 2014. A development sample (3 children aged 4-8 years) was used to design the annotation protocol. A training sample (4 children aged 10 years) was
Constructing a malaria-related health service readiness index and assessing its association with child malaria mortality: an analysis of the Burkina... (Publications)
centres and 546 peripheral health centres. Results: Malaria mortality rate in medical centres was 4.8 times higher than that of peripheral health centres (3.5% vs. 0.7%, p < 0.0001). Essential medicines
Rabies control in Liberia: joint efforts towards zero by 30 (Publications)
l interventions (e.g. dog vaccination campaigns) to the national level. Overall an estimated 5.3 - 8 million USD invested over 13 years is needed to eliminate rabies in Liberia by 2030. Liberia still has
Improving newborn health in countries exposed to political violence: an assessment of the availability, accessibility, and distribution of neonatal... (Publications)
Results: There were 38 neonatal units in Palestine: 27 in the West Bank, 3 in East Jerusalem, and 8 in the Gaza Strip. There was an uneven geographic distribution of incubators in relation to population
Changes in self-reported physical activity predict health-related quality of life among South African schoolchildren: Findings from the DASH... (Publications)
in eight disadvantaged primary schools of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Overall, 758 children aged 8-13 years participated. HRQoL was measured with the 27-item KIDSCREEN questionnaire. Self-reported physical
Registration and local production of essential medicines in Uganda (Publications)
Universal access to high quality essential medicines is critical to sustainable development (SDG 3.8). However low- and middle-income countries struggle to ensure access to all medicines on their national
Increasing blood flow increases kt/V(urea) and potassium removal but fails to improve phosphate removal (Publications)
Qb similar to the increase in potassium removal from 53.0 +/- 2.4 to 63.4 +/- 2.6 and to 74.2 +/- 3.8 mMol (p = 0.01). Phosphate removal only improved from 28.1 +/- 1.3 to 31.4 +/- 1.5 (p = 0.050) when
