Illness costs to households are a key barrier to access diagnostic and treatment services for tuberculosis in Tajikistan (Publications)
groups (community members, patients and providers). They were also highly consistent between the open discussion and the confidential rating. CONCLUSIONS: Illness-costs to households were identified as
In vitro synergistic interaction between amide piplartine and antimicrobial peptide dermaseptin against <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> schistosomula and... (Publications)
first report on the synergistic effect between piplartine and dermaseptin against S. mansoni and opens the route to further studies (e.g. in vivo) to characterize this combination in greater detail
Illness costs to households are a key barrier to access diagnostic and treatment services for tuberculosis in Tajikistan (Publications)
groups (community members, patients and providers). They were also highly consistent between the open discussion and the confidential rating. CONCLUSIONS: Illness-costs to households were identified as
Experience and lessons from health impact assessment for human rights impact assessment (Publications)
As globalisation has opened remote parts of the world to foreign investment, global leaders at the United Nations and beyond have called on multinational companies to foresee and mitigate negative impacts
Distribution of malaria exposure in endemic countries in Africa considering country levels of effective treatment (Publications)
for 43 countries in Africa using both empirical relationships (that do not allow for treatment) and OpenMalaria dynamic micro-simulation models (that explicitly include the effects of treatment). For each
Urban agriculture and <em>Anopheles</em> habitats in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Publications)
than 5% of the study area (total size 16.8 km2) was used for farming in backyard gardens and larger open spaces. The proportion of habitats containing Anopheles larvae was 1.7 times higher in agricultural
Burden of disease based methods for estimating the socio-economic cost of environmental stressors (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/burden-of-disease-based-methods-for-estimating-the-socio-economic-cost-of-environmental-stressors
environmental stressors. The methods will be co-developed with key stakeholders, made available as open access tools, and trialled in different EU countries. To ensure sustainability, transferability of
Air quality in Tehran, Iran: Evaluating acute health effects and modeling the long-term spatial variability (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/air-quality-in-tehran-iran-evaluating-acute-health-effects-and-modeling-the-long-term-spatial-variability
of air pollution and the related daily public health burden. Furthermore, results of this work will open up new avenues for next generation of air pollution monitoring, modelling, and epidemiology in Iran
Bayesian geostatistical modelling of soil-transmitted helminth survey data in the People's Republic of China (Publications)
high spatial resolution. Predictors were extracted from remote sensing and other readily accessible open-source databases. Advanced Bayesian variable selection methods were employed to develop a parsimonious
Abdominal decompression after cardiac surgery: outcome of 42 patients with abdominal compartment syndrome (Publications)
Patient characteristics, details on the cardiac surgery, mortality rate and type of treatment of the open abdomen were analyzed. RESULTS: Incidence of ACS in cardiac surgery patients was 1.0% (n = 42/4128)
