Two-year impact of community-based health screening and parenting groups on child development in Zambia: follow-up to a cluster-randomized controlled... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Early childhood interventions have potential to offset the negative impact of early adversity. We evaluated the impact of a community-based parenting group intervention on child developmen
Improving Tanzanian childbirth service quality (Publications)
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a quality improvement (QI) intervention in primary health facilities providing childbirth care in rural Southern Tanzania. Design/methodology/approach
Body silhouettes as a tool to reflect obesity in the past (Publications)
Life course data on obesity may enrich the quality of epidemiologic studies analysing health consequences of obesity. However, achieving such data may require substantial resources. We investigated th
Air pollution and incidence of cancers of the stomach and the upper aerodigestive tract in the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects... (Publications)
Air pollution has been classified as carcinogenic to humans. However, to date little is known about the relevance for cancers of the stomach and upper aerodigestive tract (UADT). We investigated the a
Sleep spindle characteristics and arousability from night-time transportation noise exposure in healthy young and older individuals (Publications)
Study Objectives: Night-time transportation noise elicits awakenings, sleep-stage changes, and electro-encephalographic (EEG) arousals. Here, we investigated the potential sleep-protective role of sle
Efficacy and safety of co-administered ivermectin plus albendazole for treating soil-transmitted helminths: a systematic review meta-analysis and... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The soil-transmitted helminths (STH), Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworms infect 1.5 billion people worldwide and cause an estimated burden of 3.3 million disability-ad
Antiprotozoal diterpenes from <em>Perovskia abrotanoides</em> (Publications)
As part of a screening for new antiparasitic natural products from Iranian plants, n-hexane and ethyl acetate extracts from the aerial parts of Perovskia abrotanoides were found to exhibit strong inhi