Stoma associated complications after diverting loop ileostomy, end ileostomy or split stoma formation after right sided colectomy: a retrospective... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: For high-risk patients receiving right-sided colectomy, stoma formation is a safety strategy. Options are anastomosis with loop ileostomy, end ileostomy, or split stoma. The aim is to comp
Geography and health: role of human translocation and access to care (Publications)
Natural, geographical barriers have historically limited the spread of communicable diseases. This is no longer the case in today's interconnected world, paired with its unprecedented environmental an
Long-term exposure to air pollution and chronic kidney disease-associated mortality: results from the pooled cohort of the European multicentre... (Publications)
Despite the known link between air pollution and cause-specific mortality, its relation to chronic kidney disease (CKD)-associated mortality is understudied. Therefore, we investigated the association
Association between short-term pollen exposure and blood pressure in adults: a repeated-measures study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Recent studies have related high pollen concentrations to increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, yet very little research concerns pre-clinical cardiovascular health, including
The governance, policy, process, and capacity of health workforce regulation and accreditation: qualitative policy analysis and evidence from... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The significant health development achieved in Palestine last decades has been lost, in Gaza particularly. This requires fundamental health system reform and rebuilding, including health w
Regional variation in the role of humidity on city-level heat-related mortality (Publications)
The rising humid heat is regarded as a severe threat to human survivability, but the proper integration of humid heat into heat-health alerts is still being explored. Using state-of-the-art epidemiolo
Assessment of the COVID-19 surveillance system in Sudan: performance, limitations, and recommendations (Publications)
Assessing the COVID-19 surveillance system is vital. It identifies cases swiftly and is crucial in curbing COVID-19 spread, especially among vulnerable groups. Public health surveillance collects, ana
A One Health evaluation framework (Publications)
Challenges calling for integrated approaches to health, such as the One Health (OH) approach, typically arise from the intertwined spheres of humans and animals, and the ecosystems constituting their
Evaluating the contributions of One Health initiatives to social sustainability photo: Chinwe (Publications)
One Health is an approach that integrates perspectives from human, animal and environmental health to address health challenges. As the idea of One Health is grounded in achieving sustainable outcomes
