Understanding home-based neonatal care practice in rural southern Tanzania (Publications)
In order to understand home-based neonatal care practices in rural Tanzania, with the aim of providing a basis for the development of strategies for improving neonatal survival,we conducted a qualitative [...] appropriate care for both mother and baby. The umbilical cordis thought to make the baby vulnerable to witchcraft and great care is taken to shield both mother and baby from bad spirits until the cord stump [...] March 2005 and April 2007. The results show that although women and families...
OpenMalaria Workflow and OpenMalariaUtilities R Packages (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/projects/project-detail/project/openmalaria-workflow-and-openmalariautilities-r-packages
package which is developed to allow the use of OpenMalaria directly from R. The package has been the main tool used by the Analytics and Intervention Modelling Group since November 2021 and it is now publicly [...] allows the user to utilize the OpenMalaria modelling suite for specific geographies in an easy-to-use manner. R is used as the primary programming language and the code has been licensed under the GNU General [...] Hence, the Swiss TPH team has developed a workflow tool that enables...
Towards improved health service quality in Tanzania: appropriateness of an electronic tool to assess quality of primary healthcare (Publications)
was an appropriate approach for the assessment's intended purpose, and a unique key feature of the electronic assessment tool. The findings underpinned the accuracy of the assessment tool to measure and [...] improve services for patients attending primary healthcare. However, the results also revealed that the use of the electronic assessment tool outside its intended purpose, for example for performance-based [...] tool, which was developed to assess and monitor the quality of primary...
Towards improved health service quality in Tanzania: appropriateness of an electronic tool to assess quality of primary healthcare (Publications)
was an appropriate approach for the assessment's intended purpose, and a unique key feature of the electronic assessment tool. The findings underpinned the accuracy of the assessment tool to measure and [...] improve services for patients attending primary healthcare. However, the results also revealed that the use of the electronic assessment tool outside its intended purpose, for example for performance-based [...] tool, which was developed to assess and monitor the quality of primary...
Understanding vaccine hesitancy and under-immunization with childhood and human papilloma virus vaccines in Switzerland : a qualitative study (Publications)
refers to the social processes by which social actors come to make and interpret meanings about the world in which they live. Health literacy refers to the socially situated practices through which people [...] framework rooted in an agency-structure approach, which allows us to underscore the social processes behind vaccine decision-making, including the concepts of the coproduction of knowledge and health literacy [...] practices, underscoring the necessity of examining vaccine hesitancy...
Understanding vaccine hesitancy and under-immunization with childhood and human papilloma virus vaccines in Switzerland : a qualitative study (Publications)
refers to the social processes by which social actors come to make and interpret meanings about the world in which they live. Health literacy refers to the socially situated practices through which people [...] framework rooted in an agency-structure approach, which allows us to underscore the social processes behind vaccine decision-making, including the concepts of the coproduction of knowledge and health literacy [...] practices, underscoring the necessity of examining vaccine hesitancy...
Health Economics to Advance Sleeping Sickness Elimination (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/health-economics-to-advance-sleeping-sickness-elimination
“This framework considers the implications of switching to a strategy with a higher likelihood of meeting the global target of elimination.” Frameworks for disease elimination The analytical framework was [...] studies of the cost-effectiveness of other disease elimination efforts.” The net-benefit framework guides decision-makers to select among various strategies in order to maximize health benefits in the presence [...] and there is never absolute certainty that the elimination goal will be...
Rabdomiólisis y hepatotoxicidad grave por interacción entre ritonavir y simvastatina. Puede emplearse la estatina más coste-efectiva en todos los... (Publications)
review is also presented. RESULTS: The patient required hospital admission and showed a favorable response after hydration and urine alkalinization. There were 4 additional cases published of which there [...] increase the risk of statin induced rhabdomyolysis. In order to evaluate them properly, physicians at all levels of clinical care should be aware of all drugs prescribed to their patients and the contraindicated [...] case-report is presented of an HIV-infected patient treated with...
Rabdomiólisis y hepatotoxicidad grave por interacción entre ritonavir y simvastatina. Puede emplearse la estatina más coste-efectiva en todos los... (Publications)
review is also presented. RESULTS: The patient required hospital admission and showed a favorable response after hydration and urine alkalinization. There were 4 additional cases published of which there [...] increase the risk of statin induced rhabdomyolysis. In order to evaluate them properly, physicians at all levels of clinical care should be aware of all drugs prescribed to their patients and the contraindicated [...] case-report is presented of an HIV-infected patient treated with...
Interkulturelle Kompetenz: Vielfalt gestalten und Zusammenarbeit stärken (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/study-with-us/postgraduate/public-and-global-health-short-courses/interkulturelle-kompetenz-vielfalt-gestalten-und-zusammenarbeit-staerken
weeks before the start of the course. This includes the registration fee of CHF 200, which is due at the time of registration in order to reserve a place. The course fee will not be refunded in the event of [...] al contexts in order to manage professional situations as a leader, manager or colleague in a way that is satisfactory for all concerned. Who Should Apply for this Course? The course is aimed at professionals [...] of non-attendance. Insurance is the responsibility of the participants....
