Parental education and children's respiratory and allergic symptoms in the Pollution and the Young (PATY) study (Publications)
Inequalities in health between socio-economic groups are a major public health concern. The current authors studied associations between parental socio-economic status (SES) and children's respiratory
Appropriating "malaria": local responses to malaria treatment and prevention in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
A continuing dilemma for medical and public health professionals is the apparent lack of fit between global and local knowledge systems and technologies. This is illustrated in relationship to malaria
Analysis of the relationship between pollinosis and date of birth in Switzerland (Publications)
Background: The first months of life may represent a vulnerable period in the development of atopic diseases. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between the month of birth and
Prospective study of a serogroup X <em>Neisseria meningitidis </em>outbreak in northern Ghana (Publications)
After an epidemic of serogroup A meningococcal meningitis in northern Ghana, a gradual disappearance of the epidemic strain was observed in a series of five 6-month carriage surveys of 37 randomly sel
Childhood asthma and exposure to traffic and nitrogen dioxide (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Evidence for a causal relationship between traffic-related air pollution and asthma has not been consistent across studies, and comparisons among studies have been difficult because of the