Exposure to ambient air pollution and the risk of inflammatory bowel disease: a European nested case-control study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Industrialization has been linked to the etiology of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). AIM: We investigated the association between air pollution exposure and IBD. METHODS: The European Pr
The LifeLines Cohort Study: a resource providing new opportunities for environmental epidemiology (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Lifelines is a prospective population-based cohort study investigating the biological, behavioral and environmental determinants of healthy ageing among 167,729 participants from the North
Influenza pandemics and tuberculosis mortality in 1889 and 1918: analysis of historical data from Switzerland (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) mortality declined in the northern hemisphere over the last 200 years, but peaked during the Russian (1889) and the Spanish (1918) influenza pandemics. We studied the imp
Does the operations of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Ghana align with the goals of Primary Health Care? Perspectives of key... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: In 2005, the World Health Assembly (WHA) of the World Health Organization (WHO) urged member states to aim at achieving affordable universal coverage and access to key promotive, preventiv
Detection and characterization of drug-resistant conferring genes in <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> complex strains: a prospective study in two... (Publications)
We spoligotyped and screened 1490 clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains from Northern and Greater Accra regions of Ghana against INH and RIF using the microplate alamar blue phenotypic a
Limited genetic diversity of hepatitis B virus in the general population of the Offin River valley in Ghana (Publications)
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections account for approximately 780,000 deaths per year, most of which occur in the developing world. Co-infection with HBV and hepatitis delta virus (HDV) may lead to the
Catalyzing the scale-up of community-based primary healthcare in a rural impoverished region of northern Ghana (Publications)
Ghana's Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) initiative develops accessible healthcare with participatory community support, using strategies developed and tested by a project of the Na
A systematic review of supportive supervision as a strategy to improve primary healthcare services in sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
BACKGROUND: It may be assumed that supportive supervision effectively builds capacity, improves the quality of care provided by frontline health workers, and positively impacts clinical outcomes. Evid
Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome associated with dermatophytoses in two HIV-1 positive patients in rural Tanzania: a case report (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome associated with dermatophytoses (tinea-IRIS) may cause considerable morbidity. Yet, it has been scarcely reported and is rarely considered in th
