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
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
Outdoor air pollution, exhaled 8-isoprostane and current asthma in adults: the EGEA study (Publications)
Associations between outdoor air pollution and asthma in adults are still scarce, and the underlying biological mechanisms are poorly understood. Our aim was to study the associations between 1) long-
Orientia <em>tsutsugamushi</em> is highly susceptible to the RNA polymerase switch region inhibitor corallopyronin a <em>in vitro</em> and<em> in... (Publications)
Scrub typhus is a potentially lethal infection caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi Reports on the emergence of doxycycline-resistant strains highlight the urgent need
Measuring trust in vaccination: a systematic review (Publications)
Vaccine acceptance depends on public trust and confidence in the safety and efficacy of vaccines and immunization, the health system, healthcare professionals and the wider vaccine research community.
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