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1. Guidance for evidence-informed policies about health systems: assessing how much confidence to place in the research evidence (Publications)

   Guidance for evidence-informed policies about health systems: assessing how much confidence to place in the research evidence

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   In the third paper in a three-part series on health systems guidance, Simon Lewin and colleagues explore the challenge of assessing how much confidence to place in evidence on health systems intervent

2. Quantifying behavioural interactions between humans and mosquitoes: Evaluating the protective efficacy of insecticidal nets against malaria... (Publications)

   Quantifying behavioural interactions between humans and mosquitoes: Evaluating the protective efficacy of insecticidal nets against malaria transmission in rural Tanzania

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   ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: African malaria vectors bite predominantly indoors at night so sleeping under an Insecticide-Treated Net (ITN) can greatly reduce malaria risk. Behavioural adaptation by mosquito

3. Air quality and health (Publications)

   Air quality and health

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4. Rapid identification of paragonimiasis foci<em> </em>by lay informants in Lao People's Democratic Republic (Publications)

   Rapid identification of paragonimiasis foci<em> </em>by lay informants in Lao People's Democratic Republic

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   BACKGROUND: Paragonimiasis is a food-borne trematodiasis leading to lung disease. Worldwide, an estimated 21 million people are infected. Foci of ongoing transmission remain often unnoticed. We evalua

5. Influence of a lifestyle intervention in preschool children on physiological and psychological parameters (Ballabeina): study design of a cluster... (Publications)

   Influence of a lifestyle intervention in preschool children on physiological and psychological parameters (Ballabeina): study design of a cluster randomized controlled trial

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   BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity and physical inactivity are increasing dramatically worldwide. Children of low socioeconomic status and/or children of migrant background are especially at risk. In gener

6. Justified concern or exaggerated fear: the risk of anaphylaxis in percutaneous treatment of cystic echinococcosis - a systematic literature review (Publications)

   Justified concern or exaggerated fear: the risk of anaphylaxis in percutaneous treatment of cystic echinococcosis - a systematic literature review

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   Percutaneous treatment (PT) emerged in the mid-1980s as an alternative to surgery for selected cases of abdominal cystic echinococcosis (CE). Despite its efficacy and widespread use, the puncture of e

7. Jugendliche sind nicht das Problem sondern die Lösung (Publications)

   Jugendliche sind nicht das Problem sondern die Lösung

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8. Zur Bedeutung des Duftes und des Schweisses bei der Attraktion von <em>Aedes aegypti </em>durch den Menschen (Publications)

   Zur Bedeutung des Duftes und des Schweisses bei der Attraktion von <em>Aedes aegypti </em>durch den Menschen

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9. Potential benefits, limitations and target product-profiles of odor-baited mosquito traps for malaria control in Africa (Publications)

   Potential benefits, limitations and target product-profiles of odor-baited mosquito traps for malaria control in Africa

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   BACKGROUND: Traps baited with synthetic human odors have been proposed as suitable technologies for controlling malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases. We investigated the potential benefits of suc

10. Estimating the burden of malaria: the need for improved surveillance (Publications)

    Estimating the burden of malaria: the need for improved surveillance

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    Ivo Mueller, Laurence Slutsker, and Marcel Tanner highlight the importance of using complementary methods to estimate the burden of malaria and call for a renewed focus on efficient malaria surveillan