Violence against health care workers in a crisis context: a mixed cross-sectional study in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Health Care Workers (HCWs) in conflict zones face high levels of violence while also playing a crucial role in assisting the population in distress. For more than two decades, the eastern
Impacts of performance-based financing on health system performance: evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Health systems' weakness remains one of the primary obstacles towards achieving universal access to quality healthcare in low-income settings. Performance-based financing (PBF) programs ha
The Ready-to-Go questionnaire predicts health outcomes during travel: a smartphone application-based analysis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The Ready-To-Go (R2G) Questionnaire is a tool for rapid assessment of health risks for travel consultation. This study aims to assess the utility of the R2G Questionnaire in identifying hi
Spirometric patterns in young and middle-aged adults: a 20-year European study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Understanding the natural history of abnormal spirometric patterns at different stages of life is critical to identify and optimise preventive strategies. We aimed to describe characterist
Satisfaction with primary health care in Ukraine in 2016-2020: a difference-in-differences analysis on repeated cross-sectional data (Publications)
The aim of this study is to examine the general satisfaction with primary health care services in Ukraine among service users and nonusers before and after the implementation of the capitation reform
The quality of OpenStreetMap food-related point-of-interest data for use in epidemiological research (Publications)
We assessed the quality of food-related OpenStreetMap (OSM) data in urban areas of five European countries. We calculated agreement statistics between point-of-interests (POIs) from OSM and from Googl
Suramin action in African trypanosomes involves a RuvB-like DNA helicase (Publications)
Suramin is one of the oldest drugs in use today. It is still the treatment of choice for the hemolymphatic stage of African sleeping sickness caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, and it is also u
Revised EU and WHO air quality thresholds: where does Europe stand? (Publications)
One year after the new WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines were published, the European Commission proposed revisions to the Ambient Air Quality Directives, seeking to align European Union air quality s
