Preventive and reproductive health services for women: the role of California's family planning waiver (Publications)
PURPOSE: Examine effects of a Medicaid family planning waiver on the receipt of reproductive health care and pregnancy. DESIGN: The present study uses a quasi-experimental design using data from the C
Contraintes parasitaires des cultures maraîchères en Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
This study based on the identification of the parasitic problems of four vegetable crops in three agro-ecological areas of Côte d'Ivoire, allowed us to indentity the main insects and diseases of cabba
Assessment of global guidelines for preventive chemotherapy against schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis: a cost-effectiveness modelling... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: WHO guidelines recommend annual treatment for schistosomiasis or soil-transmitted helminthiasis when prevalence in school-aged children is at or above a threshold of 50% and 20%, respectiv
How do we learn about improving health care: a call for a new epistemological paradigm (Publications)
PURPOSE: The field of improving health care has been achieving more significant results in outcomes at scale in recent years. This has raised legitimate questions regarding the rigor, attribution, gen
Spatially variable risk factors for malaria in a geographically heterogeneous landscape, western Kenya: an explorative study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Large reductions in malaria transmission and mortality have been achieved over the last decade, and this has mainly been attributed to the scale-up of long-lasting insecticidal bed nets an
Comparative genomics of drug resistance in<em> Trypanosoma brucei</em> rhodesiense (Publications)
Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense is one of the causative agents of human sleeping sickness, a fatal disease that is transmitted by tsetse flies and restricted to Sub-Saharan Africa. Here we investigate
Complementary school garden, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene interventions to improve children's nutrition and health status in Burkina Faso... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malnutrition and intestinal parasitic infections are common among children in Burkina Faso and Nepal. However, specific health-related data in school-aged children in these two countries a