Short- and long-term effects of a multi-component physical activity intervention in primary school (Publications)
14% reduced cardiovascular risk score, 5% reduced body mass index and skinfold thickness, 6% improved aerobic fitness, 18% higher physical activity levels, and 5-8% higher bone mineral content and bone
Oral fexinidazole for stage 1 or early stage 2 African <em>Trypanosoma brucei gambiense</em> trypanosomiasis: a prospective, multicentre, open-label,... (Publications)
on days 1-4 then 1200 mg fexinidazole on days 5-10. Patients were observed for approximately 19 months in total. Study participants were followed up on day 5 and day 8 during treatment, at end of treatment
Chronic Diseases Clinic Ifakara (Page)
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Francis Referral Hospital in Ifakara, Tanzania, serves as a referral centre for a rural population of ~1.5 million people. Its Emergency Department (ED) sees 88,000 patients a year, 10% of whom are in a serious [...] system between these units, a rapid diagnosis and treament of stroke patients presenting within 4.5 hours of the onset of symptoms, and the patient relatives' visits. Implementation of Equipment Several
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a pas d’arc-en-ciel au paradis » Lecturer: Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry Location: Swiss TPH, Seminar Room 5 Event category: Public Event Lecture publique et discussion avec l'auteur 07.04.2025 17:00 to 18:00 [...] Teams 20 March 2025: Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Refresher Course 31 March–4 April 2025: Leadership 5–9 May 2025: Communication, Marketing and Social Media Improving Health Worldwide We are dedicated to
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of... (Publications)
[134.2 million to 163.1 million]), high fasting plasma glucose (143.1 million [125.1 million to 163.5 million]), high BMI (120.1 million [83.8 million to 158.4 million]), childhood undernutrition (113.3 [...] million [77.2 million to 93.0 million]), and diets high in sodium (83.0 million [49.3 million to 127.5 million]). From 1990 to 2015, attributable DALYs declined for micronutrient deficiencies, childhood
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children under 5 in 2021 in the northern departments of Alibori and Atacora. Benin considered extending SMC either demographically to children from 5 to 10, or geographically to children under 5 in other eligible
Distribution and treatment needs of soil-transmitted helminthiasis in Bangladesh: a Bayesian geostatistical analysis of 2017-2020 national survey data (Publications)
soil's fine earth fraction was related to a high hookworm prevalence. Furthermore, we estimated that 30.5 (27.2; 36.0) million dosages of anthelmintic treatments for school-age children were required per year
Etude suisse sur la pollution de l'air et les maladies respiratoires chez l'adulte (SAPALDIA) (Publications)
symptoms of chronic bronchitis (+31%, 10-55%), on FVC (-3.1%; -3.7 to -2.6%), and FEV1 (-1.1%; -1.7% to -0.5%), on the incidence of respiratory symptoms and the length of symptomfree intervals (11% change per
The economic payoffs of integrated malaria control in the Zambian copperbelt between 1930 and 1950 (Publications)
healthy work forces. The programmes averted an estimated 796,622 US dollars in direct treatment costs and 5,678,745 US dollars in indirect costs as a result of reduced work absenteeism. Within a few years of
A Kiswahili version of the SF-36 Health Survey for use in Tanzania: translation and tests of scaling assumptions (Publications)
scales ranged from 0.47 to 0.81 for the entire sample. Median scaling success rates were 100% (range 87.5- 100.0). The median internal consistency reliability of the eight scales for the entire sample was 0