Low prevalence of bovine tuberculosis in Somali pastoral livestock, southeast Ethiopia (Publications)
cattle, camels, and goats was 0.7% (95% CI, 0.2-2.0%), 10.0% (95% CI, 7.0-14.0%), and 1.9 (95% CI, 0.9-4.0%), respectively, whereby camels had an odds ratio of 16.5 (95% CI, 5.0-55.0) when compared to cattle [...] for each species. The individual animal prevalence was 2.0% [95% confidence interval (CI), 0.5-8.4], 0.4% (95% CI, 0.1-3%), and 0.2% (95% CI, 0.03-1.3) in cattle, camels, and goats, respectively. Prevalence
Two-year impact of community-based health screening and parenting groups on child development in Zambia: follow-up to a cluster-randomized controlled... (Publications)
impact cognition (beta 0.11, 95% CI -0.06 to 0.29; p = 0.196), motor skills (beta -0.01, 95% CI -0.25 to 0.24; p = 0.964), adaptive behavior (beta 0.21, 95% CI -0.03 to 0.44; p = 0.088), or social-emotional [...] (56/195 versus 72/182; adjusted odds ratio 0.45, 95% CI 0.22 to 0.92; p = 0.028) and had a significant positive impact on language (beta 0.14, 95% CI 0.01 to 0.27; p = 0.039). The intervention did not significantly [...] onal development (beta 0.20, 95% CI -0.04 to 0.44; p = 0.098)....
Two-year impact of community-based health screening and parenting groups on child development in Zambia: follow-up to a cluster-randomized controlled... (Publications)
impact cognition (beta 0.11, 95% CI -0.06 to 0.29; p = 0.196), motor skills (beta -0.01, 95% CI -0.25 to 0.24; p = 0.964), adaptive behavior (beta 0.21, 95% CI -0.03 to 0.44; p = 0.088), or social-emotional [...] (56/195 versus 72/182; adjusted odds ratio 0.45, 95% CI 0.22 to 0.92; p = 0.028) and had a significant positive impact on language (beta 0.14, 95% CI 0.01 to 0.27; p = 0.039). The intervention did not significantly [...] onal development (beta 0.20, 95% CI -0.04 to 0.44; p = 0.098)....
Determinants of safety climate at primary care level in Ghana, Malawi and Uganda: a cross-sectional study across 138 selected primary healthcare... (Publications)
strongly associated with teamwork (beta = 0.56, p < 0.001), supportive supervision (beta = 0.34, p < 0.001), and district managerial support (beta = 0.29, p < 0.001). In Ghana, safety climate was positively [...] positively associated with job satisfaction (beta = 0.30, p < 0.05), teamwork (beta = 0.46, p < 0.001), and supportive supervision (beta = 0.21, p < 0.05), whereby the model explained 43% of the variance in [...] model was 64%, with teamwork (beta = 0.56, p < 0.001), supportive...
Determinants of safety climate at primary care level in Ghana, Malawi and Uganda: a cross-sectional study across 138 selected primary healthcare... (Publications)
strongly associated with teamwork (beta = 0.56, p < 0.001), supportive supervision (beta = 0.34, p < 0.001), and district managerial support (beta = 0.29, p < 0.001). In Ghana, safety climate was positively [...] positively associated with job satisfaction (beta = 0.30, p < 0.05), teamwork (beta = 0.46, p < 0.001), and supportive supervision (beta = 0.21, p < 0.05), whereby the model explained 43% of the variance in [...] model was 64%, with teamwork (beta = 0.56, p < 0.001), supportive...
Improving coverage of antenatal iron and folic acid supplementation and malaria prophylaxis through targeted information and home deliveries in Côte... (Publications)
(aPRs) of 0.97 (95% CI 0.79 to 1.19, p=0.770) for INFO and 0.87 (95% CI 0.70 to 1.09, p=0.235) for INFO+DELIV. While INFO had no effect on malaria parasitaemia (aPR=0.95, 95% CI 0.39 to 2.31, p=0.915), INFO+DELIV [...] parasitaemia by 83% (aPR=0.17, 95% CI 0.04 to 0.75, p=0.019). No improvements in antenatal care (ANC) coverage (aPR=1.05, 95% CI 0.81 to 1.36, p=0.692), IFA (aPR=2.00, 95% CI 0.89 to 4.46, p=0.093) and IPTp (aPR=1 [...] (aPR=1.03, 95% CI 0.87 to 1.21, p=0.728) compliance were...
Improving coverage of antenatal iron and folic acid supplementation and malaria prophylaxis through targeted information and home deliveries in Côte... (Publications)
(aPRs) of 0.97 (95% CI 0.79 to 1.19, p=0.770) for INFO and 0.87 (95% CI 0.70 to 1.09, p=0.235) for INFO+DELIV. While INFO had no effect on malaria parasitaemia (aPR=0.95, 95% CI 0.39 to 2.31, p=0.915), INFO+DELIV [...] parasitaemia by 83% (aPR=0.17, 95% CI 0.04 to 0.75, p=0.019). No improvements in antenatal care (ANC) coverage (aPR=1.05, 95% CI 0.81 to 1.36, p=0.692), IFA (aPR=2.00, 95% CI 0.89 to 4.46, p=0.093) and IPTp (aPR=1 [...] (aPR=1.03, 95% CI 0.87 to 1.21, p=0.728) compliance were...
Not all farming environments protect against the development of asthma and wheeze in children (Publications)
[OR], 0.57; 95% CI, 0.38-0.86), farm milk consumption (OR, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.60-0.99), frequent stay in animal sheds (OR, 0.71; 95% CI, 0.54-0.95), child's involvement in haying (OR, 0.56; 95% CI, 0.38-0 [...] 38-0.81), and use of silage (OR, 0.55; 95% CI, 0.31-0.98; for nonatopic asthma) and in Germany for agriculture (OR, 0.34; 95% CI, 0.22-0.53). Protective factors were related with higher expression levels of
The protective effect of farm milk consumption on childhood asthma and atopy: The GABRIELA study (Publications)
associated to asthma (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 0.59; 95% CI, 0.46-0.74), atopy (aOR, 0.74; 95% CI, 0.61-0.90), and hay fever (aOR, 0.51; 95% CI, 0.37-0.69) independent of other farm exposures. Boiled [...] asthma, 0.53; 95% CI, 0.30-0.97), alpha-lactalbumin (aOR for interquartile range and asthma, 0.71; 95% CI, 0.52-0.97), and beta-lactoglobulin (aOR for interquartile range and asthma, 0.62; 95% CI, 0.39-0
Comparing land use regression and dispersion modelling to assess residential exposure to ambient air pollution for epidemiological studies (Publications)
estimates for the annual average concentrations of NO2, PM10 and PM2.5 were 0.75 (0.19-0.89), 0.39 (0.23-0.66) and 0.29 (0.22-0.81) for 112,971 (13 study areas), 69,591 (7) and 28,519 (4) addresses respectively [...] coefficients (range) between DM estimates and ESCAPE measurements were of 0.74 (0.09-0.86) for NO2; 0.58 (0.36-0.88) for PM10 and 0.58 (0.39-0.66) for PM2.5. CONCLUSIONS: LUR and dispersion model estimates correlated
