Impacts of performance-based financing on health system performance: evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Publications)
(ppts) (95% CI 0.01-0.08), technical process quality by 5 ppts (0.03-0.07), and non-technical process by 2 ppts (0-0.04). PBF also increased coverage of priority health services by 3 ppts (0.02-0.04). Improvements [...] were also observed for facility management (9 ppts, 0.04-0.15), service fee policies, and users' satisfaction with service affordability (14 ppts, 0.07-0.20). Service fees and health workers' satisfaction
Assessing the effects of mining projects on child health in sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-country analysis (Publications)
Ratio (aOR): 0.88; 95% Confidence Interval (CI): 0.68-1.14). However, activation of mining projects reduced the mortality risk among neonates (0-30 days) by 45% (aOR: 0.55; 95% CI: 0.37-0.83) and risk [...] diseases by 32% (aOR: 0.68; 95% CI: 0,51-0.90). The timing analysis of observed changes showed that there is a significant decline in the risk for childhood diarrhoea (aOR: 0.69; 95% CI: 0.49-0.97), and the mean
Childhood illness prevalence and health seeking behavior patterns in rural Tanzania (Publications)
ORdiarrhea = 0.26, 95 % CI 0.18-0.37; ORARI = 0.60 95 % CI 0.41-0.89]. Children aged two and older were more likely than children under one to receive no care or to receive care at home, rather than to receive [...] weeks, 12.0 % had diarrhea and 6.7 % experienced ARI. Children two years of age and older were less likely to experience morbidity than children under one year [ORfever = 0.77, 95 % CI 0.61-0.96; ORdiarrhea [...] care at a facility as compared to those who lived with an uneducated...
Response, survival, and long-term toxicity after therapy with the radiolabeled somatostatin analogue [90Y-DOTA]-TOC in metastasized neuroendocrine... (Publications)
[HR], 0.46; 95% CI, 0.38 to 0.56; median survival, 44.7 v 18.3 months; P < .001), biochemical (HR, 0.75; 95% CI, 0.59 to 0.96; 35.3 v 25.7 months; P = .023), and clinical response (HR, 0.68; 95% CI, 0.56 [...] that tumoral uptake in the initial imaging study was predictive for overall survival (HR, 0.45; 95% CI, 0.29 to 0.69; P < .001), whereas the initial kidney uptake was predictive for severe renal toxicity [...] 56 to 0.82; 36.8 v 23.5 months; P < .001). Overall, 142 patients (12.8%)...
Patients with cystic echinococcosis in the three national referral centers of Mongolia: a model for CE management assessment (Publications)
coefficient and weighted Kappa was 0.57 and 0.59, respectively. Mean proportions of images judged as stages CE1, CE2, CE3a, CE3b, CE4 and CL were 0.59, 0.01, 0.19, 0.08, 0.03 and 0.11, respectively. 40 cysts met [...] surgery and watch & wait were 52.5% (95% CI 42-65), 25.8% (95% CI 15-30), 5.1% (95% CI 0-10) and 3.3% (95% CI 0.0-10), respectively. 13.3% (95% CI 5-25) of cysts were staged as CL and therefore assigned [...] three state hospitals and fulfilling the inclusion criterion 'discharge...
Safety and efficacy of the RTS,S/AS01(E) candidate malaria vaccine given with expanded-programme-on-immunisation vaccines: 19 month follow-up of a... (Publications)
against all malaria episodes was higher with the 0, 1, 2 month schedule (57%, 95% CI 33-73; p=0.0002) than with the 0, 1, 7 month schedule (32% CI 16-45; p=0.0003). 1 year after dose three, vaccine efficacy [...] the 0, 1, 2 month schedule (2 weeks after dose three to month 19, site-adjusted according-to-protocol analysis) was 53% (95% CI 26-70; p=0.0012) against first malaria episodes and 59% (36-74; p=0.0001) [...] months 0, 1, and 2, and measles vaccine and yellow fever vaccines at study...
Safety and efficacy of the RTS,S/AS01(E) candidate malaria vaccine given with expanded-programme-on-immunisation vaccines: 19 month follow-up of a... (Publications)
against all malaria episodes was higher with the 0, 1, 2 month schedule (57%, 95% CI 33-73; p=0.0002) than with the 0, 1, 7 month schedule (32% CI 16-45; p=0.0003). 1 year after dose three, vaccine efficacy [...] the 0, 1, 2 month schedule (2 weeks after dose three to month 19, site-adjusted according-to-protocol analysis) was 53% (95% CI 26-70; p=0.0012) against first malaria episodes and 59% (36-74; p=0.0001) [...] months 0, 1, and 2, and measles vaccine and yellow fever vaccines at study...
Association of daily physical activity volume and intensity with COPD severity (Publications)
walking (WLK, 0-5km/h), and fast walking (FWLK, > 5km/h) were analyzed. Total walking time (TWT) was computed. RESULTS: Times spent WLK (P=0.031), FWLK (P=0.001), TWT (P=0.021), and steps per day (P=0.013) differed [...] y between GOLD stages. There was a significant negative correlation between TWK and GOLD stage (R=-0.35; P
Isoneocryptolepine, a synthetic indoloquinoline alkaloid, as an antiplasmodial lead compound (Publications)
Plasmodium falciparum strain K1 (IC50 of 0.23 +/- 0.04 and 0.017 +/- 0.004 microM, respectively), while the cytotoxicity (L6 cells) was 4.32 +/- 0.04 and 12.7 +/- 2.0 microM, respectively. Isoneocryptolepine
RF exposure survey of children and adults: first results from Slovenia (Publications)
personal RF-EMF exposure of 0.26 V/m. Average personal RF-EMF exposure by technology was 0.11 V/m from uplink, 0.18 V/m from downlink, 0.15 V/m from broadcasting, 0.07 V/m from DECT and 0.08 V/m from WLAN.
