A question module for assessing community stigma towards HIV in rural India (Publications)
Summary This paper describes a simple question module to assess community stigma in rural India. Fear of stigma is known to prevent people from seeking HIV testing and to contribute to further disease
Health-related quality of life in rural children living in four European countries: the GABRIEL study (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: Measuring children's health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is of growing importance given increasing chronic diseases. By integrating HRQOL questions into the European GABRIEL study, we as
Nesting doctoral students in collaborative North-South partnerships for health systems research (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The European Union (EU) supports North-South Partnerships and collaborative research projects through its Framework Programmes and Horizon 2020. There is limited research on how such proje
Spatial analysis and risk mapping of soil-transmitted helminth infections in Brazil, using Bayesian geostatistical models (Publications)
Soil-transmitted helminths (Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworm) negatively impact the health and wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people, particularly in tropical and subtropic
Untapped potential of health impact assessment (Publications)
The World Health Organization has promoted health impact assessment (HIA) for over 20 years. At the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), HIA was discussed as a critical
Patient and physician acceptance of a campaign approach to promoting physical activity: The move for health project (Publications)
A campaign approach consisting of systematic screening and brief counselling of insufficiently active patients in general practice is feasible. Participating practices considered the amount of work as
Effectiveness of Active-Online, an Individually Tailored Physical Activity Intervention, in a Real-Life Setting: Randomized Controlled Trial (Publications)
Background: Effective interventions are needed to reduce the chronic disease epidemic. The Internet has the potential to provide large populations with individual advice at relatively low cost. Object
One Health stakeholder and institutional analysis in Kenya (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: One Health (OH) can be considered a complex emerging policy to resolve health issues at the animal-human and environmental interface. It is expected to drive system changes in terms of n
Evaluation of an FDA approved library against laboratory models of human intestinal nematode infections (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Treatment options for infections with soil-transmitted helminths (STH) - Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and the two hookworm species, Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanu
