Health impact and cost-effectiveness of expanding routine immunization coverage in India through Intensified Mission Indradhanush (Publications)
million from an immunization program perspective and increased vaccine delivery by an estimated 2.2 (-0.5 to 4.8) million doses over a 12-month period, averting an estimated 1,413 (-350 to 3,129) deaths. The
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (Publications)
1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years of whom 101 million were infants younger than 1 year. For every death averted, 66 years of full
Quantification of Health Impact of Air pollution in Switzerland (Projects)
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indicator pollutant, reference values, selection of outcomes etc. on the attributable deaths estimates 5. To explain changes in the burden of disease estimates over time in Switzerland as a function of air
Papua New Guinea National Malaria Control Programme Evaluation and Operational Research 2021 to 2023 (Projects)
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adjust guidelines to prevent widespread insecticide resistance in malaria vector mosquitoes. Activity 5: LLIN durability assessment including bio-efficacy testing and chemical analysis of LLINs. Activity
Global-Partnership-Initiated-Biosecurity-Academia for Controlling Health Threats (Projects)
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Anonymous evaluations of the course by the fellows have regularly scored above 4 (mean of 4.7, n= ?) on a 1-5 rating scale and have shown great acceptance of the programme. The knowledge network is further strengthened
Exclusive breastfeeding: global rates, optimal duration, and a multi-country intervention (Projects)
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countries only provides an average of exclusive breastfeeding within the last 24-hours among children 0-5 months of age, leaving the final duration of exclusive breastfeeding unknown. Lastly, interventions
Modelling support to decision-making for malaria control in Benin (Projects)
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between administering seasonal malaria chemoprevention to children until 10 in few regions or until 5 in a larger area. We use again OpenMalaria to project the impact of the interventions on prevalence
Recommendations for malaria prevention in moderate to low risk areas: travellers' choice and risk perception (Publications)
(9%). Those who chose chemoprophylaxis were more likely to have used it in the past (OR = 3.0 (CI 1.7-5.44)), but were not different in terms of demographic, travel characteristics or risk behaviour. CONCLUSIONS:
Diversity of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis </em>and drug resistance in different provinces of Papua New Guinea (Publications)
4 was the most prevalent lineage (76.6%), whereas in Goroka and Alotau Lineage 2 was dominating (60.5% and 84.4%, respectively) (p inverted question mark < inverted question mark0.001). Overall, phenotypic
Risk factors of new-onset asthma in adults: a population-based international cohort study (Publications)
were free of asthma and reported at the beginning of the follow-up that they had never had asthma (4.5 per 1000 person-years). In a logistic regression, the following risk factors were found to increase