Geospatial health: the first five years (Publications)
symposium at the 60th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in December 2011
Enterobiasis and strongyloidiasis and associated co-infections and morbidity markers in infants, preschool- and school-aged children from rural... (Publications)
of 1,033 children were included in a cross-sectional study implemented in the Bagamoyo district in 2011/2012. Faecal samples were examined for intestinal helminth infections using a broad set of quality
Bayesian risk profiling of soil-transmitted helminth infections and estimates of preventive chemotherapy for school-aged children in Côte... (Publications)
population-adjusted risk; and (iii) to estimate annual needs for preventive chemotherapy. METHODS: In late 2011/early 2012, a cross-sectional survey was carried out among school-aged children in 92 localities of
Spatial variation of PM2.5, PM10, PM2.5 absorbance and PMcoarse concentrations between and within 20 European study areas and the relationship with... (Publications)
across Europe. We measured NO2, NOx, PM2.5. PM2.5 absorbance and PM10 between October 2008 and April 2011 using standardized methods. PMcoarse was determined as the difference between PM10 and PM2.5. In each
Development of land use regression models for nitrogen dioxide, ultrafine particles, lung deposited surface area, and four other markers of... (Publications)
to lack of exposure measurements and models. METHODS: Air pollution measurements were performed in 2011 and 2012 in the eight areas of the Swiss SAPALDIA study at up to 40 sites per area for NO2 and at
Short-term associations between daily mortality and ambient particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, and the air quality index in a Middle Eastern... (Publications)
fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and the Air Quality Index (AQI) from March 2011 through March 2014 in the megacity of Tehran, Iran. Generalized additive quasi-Poisson models were
Geographical variations of the associations between health interventions and all-cause under-five mortality in Uganda (Publications)
Spatially explicit data on U5M, interventions and sociodemographic indicators were obtained from the 2011 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). Climatic data were extracted from remote sensing sources
programmatic approach, funded by Vital Strategies. Mr. Patrick Hanlon is providing his expertise since 2011 to the public financial management and health financing components of the Health Promotion and System
Long term exposure to air pollution and kidney parenchyma cancer - effects of low-level air pollution: a study in Europe (ELAPSE) (Publications)
the individual and area-level. RESULTS: The participants were followed from baseline (1985-2005) to 2011-2015. A total of 847 cases occurred during 5,497,514 person-years of follow-up (average 18.2 years)