The intergenerational relationship between conditional cash transfers and newborn health (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Lack of nutrition, inadequate housing, low education and limited access to quality care can negatively affect children's health over their lifetime. Implemented in 2003, the Bolsa Familia
Operational challenges of engaging development partners in district health planning in Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Development Assistance for Health (DAH) represents an important source of health financing in many low and middle-income countries. However, there are few accounts on how priorities funded
Feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions against infectious diseases among crisis-affected populations: a... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) are a crucial suite of measures to prevent and control infectious disease outbreaks. Despite being particularly important for crisis-affected popula
Mental disorders among cardiac disease patients in a Palestinian population (Publications)
Mental disorders and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are among the leading contributors to the global burden of disease, making them a major public health problem. Mental disorders and CVDs are common
Multicentre harmonization and co-analysis for large-scale environmental epidemiology : combining environmental exposure and health datasets (Publications)
Background Like other branches of epidemiology and public health, environmental epidemiology faces the significant challenge of teasing out the health effects of a large number of interplaying risk fa
Short-term effects of nocturnal transportation noise on cardio-metabolic outcomes and its association to sleep (Publications)
Transportation noise is one of the most important environmental risk factors for cardio-metabolic diseases. It is assumed that short-term noise exposure activates a physiological stress response, whic