User-determined end of net life in Senegal: a qualitative assessment of decision-making related to the retirement of expired nets (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Procurement and distribution of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) in the African region has decreased from 145 million in 2010 to 66 million nets in 2012. As resources for LLIN distri
HIV-related travel restrictions: trends and country characteristics (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Increasingly, HIV-seropositive individuals cross international borders. HIV-related restrictions on entry, stay, and residence imposed by countries have important consequences for this m
Bayesian first order auto-regressive latent variable models for multiple binary sequences (Publications)
Longitudinal clinical trials often collect long sequences of binary data monitoring a disease process over time. Our application is a medical study conducted in the US by the Veterans Administration C
The health of migrant children in Switzerland (Publications)
Over 22 % of children and adolescents living in Switzerland have a migrant background. The aim of this systematic literature review is to give an overview of health needs of paediatric migrants in Swi
Spatial distribution of <em>Biomphalaria</em> spp., the intermediate host snails of <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> in Brazil (Publications)
Schistosomiasis mansoni remains an important parasitic disease of man, endemic in large parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, South America and the Caribbean. The aetiological agent is the tre
Erfahrungen junger Eltern mit der familienzentrierten Betreuung in der Primärversorgung in der Schweiz: eine qualitative Evaluationsstudie (Publications)
Background: Routine postnatal care normally addresses only the mother and her child. In Switzerland, counselling for all parents and their children is provided by family nurses in a community-based he