Is the ebb of asthma due to the decline of allergic asthma? A prospective consultation-based study by the Swiss Sentinel Surveillance Network,... (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: There are conflicting views on time trends of asthma and atopy during the last 10-15 years. Additional confusion is caused by the term of asthma which is a unifying name for different pheno
Managerial supervision to improve primary health care in low- and middle-income countries (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Primary healthcare (PHC) workers often work alone or in isolation. Healthcare managerial supervision is recommended to help assure quality; but this requires skilled supervisors and takes
Unvaccinated children in years of increasing coverage: how many and who are they? Evidence from 96 low- and middle-income countries (Publications)
Objective While childhood immunisation coverage levels have increased since the 70s, inequities in coverage between and within countries have been widely reported. Unvaccinated children remain undetec
Prevalence of hay fever and allergic sensitization in farmer's children and their peers living in the same rural community (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Lower prevalence rates of allergic diseases in rural as compared with urban populations have been interpreted as indicating an effect of air pollution. However, little is known about oth