Household costs of illness during different phases of tuberculosis treatment in Central Asia: a patient survey in Tajikistan (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Illness-related costs incurred by patients constitute a severe economic burden for households especially in low-income countries. High household costs of illness lead to impoverishment; th
Medical care of asylum seekers: a descriptive study of the appropriateness of nurse practitioners' care compared to traditional physician-based care... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Medical care for asylum seekers is a complex and critical issue worldwide. It is influenced by social, political, and economic pressures, as well as premigration conditions, the process of
Association of vitamin D status with incidence of enterotoxigenic, enteropathogenic and enteroaggregative <em>Escherichia coli</em> diarrhoea in... (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between vitamin D status and diarrhoeal episodes by enterotoxigenic (ETEC), enterpathogenic (EPEC) and enteroaggregative (EAEC) E. coli in underweight and normal
Cluster-randomized study of Intermittent Preventive Treatment for malaria in infants (IPTi) in southern Tanzania: evaluation of impact on survival (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Intermittent Preventive Treatment for malaria control in infants (IPTi) consists of the administration of a treatment dose of an anti-malarial drug, usually sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine, at
Don't take it personal: European Union legal aspects of procuring and protecting environmental exposure data in population biobanks through the use of... (Publications)
Under European Union (EU) law, population-based cohort studies have the right to collect environmental data and to access geospatial data, at street level, on the web, from a host of public sources. A