Health
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The key area with the broad name “Health” brings together researchers from different disciplines and at different stages of their academic careers. A particular focus of the key area is on the exchange and critical conceptual and epistemological reflection of health-related themes explored from different disciplinary perspectives, including both the social and natural sciences. Our members represent various faculties and departments of the University of Basel as well affiliated institutes, in particular the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute.
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2023
Lee, Tristan Taylor, Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie, Martin Röösli, Sonja Merten, Marek Kwiatkowski, Hassan Mahomed, Neville Sweijd, and Guéladio Cissé. 2023. “Understanding Diarrhoeal Diseases in Response to Climate Variability and Drought in Cape Town, South Africa: A Mixed Methods Approach”. Infectious Diseases of Poverty 12 (1). 10.1186/s40249-023-01127-7.
Ferrari, Giovanfrancesco, Samuel Makali Lwamushi, Ghislain Bisimwa Balaluka, Riyadh K. Lafta, Christian Schindler, Daniella Bugugu, Emmanuel Lurhangire, Fabrizio Tediosi, Jessica Ramirez Mendoza, and Sonja Merten. 2023. “Understanding Context of Violence Against Healthcare through Citizen Science and Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Co-Designed Code of Conduct and of a Tailored De-Escalation of Violence Training in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and Iraq: A Study Protocol for a Stepped Wedge Randomized Controlled Trial”. Trials 24 (1). 10.1186/s13063-023-07839-3.
Makali, Samuel Lwamushi, Jean Corneille Lembebu, Raïssa Boroto, Christian Chiribagula Zalinga, Daniella Bugugu, Emmanuel Lurhangire, Bigirinama Rosine, et al. 2023. “Violence Against Health Care Workers in a Crisis Context: A Mixed Cross-Sectional Study in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo”. Conflict and Health 17 (1). 10.1186/s13031-023-00541-w.
Baum, Eleonore, Sied Abdi, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Jakob Zinsstag, Birgit Vosseler, Rea Tschopp, Peter van Eeuwijk. 2023. “‘I Could Not Bear it’: Perceptions of Chronic Pain Among Somali Pastoralists in Ethiopia. A Qualitative Study”. PLoS ONE 18 (11 NOVEMBER). 10.1371/journal.pone.0293137.
Ikuteyijo, Olutoyin Opeyemi, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund, Michael D. Fetters, Akanni Ibukun Akinyemi, Sonja Merten. 2023. “Health Providers’ Response to Female Adolescent Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Demand Side Barriers in the Utilization of Support Services in Urban Low-Income Communities of Nigeria”. Healthcare (Switzerland) 11 (19). 10.3390/healthcare11192627.
Nebie, Eric I, Hélène N Sawadogo, Peter van Eeuwijk, Aita Signorell, Elisabeth Reus, Juerg Utzinger, Christian Burri. 2023. “Opportunities and challenges for decentralised clinical trials in sub-Saharan Africa: A qualitative study”. BMJ Open 13 (9): e075903. 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075903.
Merten, Sonja, Tobias Haller. 2023. “Interwoven Landscapes: Gender and Land in the Kafue Flats, Zambia”. Land 12 (9). 10.3390/land12091657.
Wuthrich-Grossenbacher, U., A. Mutsinze, U. Wolf, C.C. Maponga, N. Midzi, M.J. Mutsaka-Makuvaza, S. Merten. 2023. “Spiritual and Religious Aspects Influence Mental Health and Viral Load: A Quantitative Study Among Young People Living With HIV in Zimbabwe”. BMJ Global Health 8 (8). 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012671.
Owolodun, B., S. Merten. 2023. “Food Security from the Forest: The Case of the Commodification of Baobab Fruit (Adansonia Digitata L.) in Boundou Region, Senegal”. Land 12 (7). 10.3390/land12071423.
Ombere, S.O., E.O. Nyambedha, T. Haller, S. Merten. 2023. “Local Perspectives on Policy Implementation of Free Maternity Health Services in Kenya: Implications for Universal Health Coverage”. African Journal of Reproductive Health 27 (5): 71-81. 10.29063/ajrh2023/v27i5s.9.
Shrikhande, Shreya S., Sonja Merten, Olga Cambaco, Tristan Lee, Ravivarman Lakshmanasamy, Martin Röösli, Mohammad Aqiel Dalvie, Jürg Utzinger, Guéladio Cissé. 2023. “‘Climate Change and Health?’: Knowledge and Perceptions Among Key Stakeholders in Puducherry, India”. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20 (6). 10.3390/ijerph20064703.
Bapolisi, W. A., G. Bisimwa, S. Merten. 2023. “Barriers to Family Planning Use in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour Using a Longitudinal Survey”. BMJ Open 13 (2): e061564. 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061564. edoc | Open Access
Wüthrich-Grossenbacher, U., A. Mutsinze, U. Wolf, C. C. Maponga, N. Midzi, M. J. Mutsaka-Makuvaza, S. Merten. 2023. “A validation of the religious and spiritual struggles scale among young people living with HIV in Zimbabwe: mokken scale analysis and exploratory factor analysis”. Front Psychol 14: 1051455. 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1051455. edoc | Open Access
Zepro, N. B., N. T. Ali, N. Tarr, A. A. Medhanyie, D. H. Paris, N. Probst-Hensch, S. Merten. 2023. “Sexual and reproductive health services use among adolescents in pastoralist settings, northeastern Ethiopia”. BMC Health Serv Res 23 (1): 677. 10.1186/s12913-023-09616-z. edoc | Open Access
Ombere, S.O., E.O. Nyambedha, T. Haller, S. Merten. 2023. “Anti-Politics and Free Maternal Health Services in Kilifi County, Kenya”. African Studies 82 (1): 85-97. 10.1080/00020184.2023.2241833.
Baum, Eleonore, Sied Abdi, Peter Van Eeuwijk, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Jakob Zinsstag, Rea Tschopp, Birgit Vosseler. 2023. “‘It Is Difficult for Us to Treat Their pain’. Health professionals’ Perceptions of Somali Pastoralists in the Context of Pain Management: A Conceptual Model”. Medical Humanities. 10.1136/medhum-2022-012570.
Zinsstag, J., A. Kaiser-Grolimund, K. Heitz-Tokpa, R. Sreedharan, J. Lubroth, F. Caya, M. Stone, et al. 2023. “Advancing One Human-Animal-Environment Health for Global Health Security: What Does the Evidence Say?”. Lancet 401 (10376): 591-604. 10.1016/s0140-6736(22)01595-1. edoc
Marcu, D., S. Keyser, L. Petrik, S. Fuhrimann, L. Maree. 2023. “Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) and male reproductive health: challenging the future with a double-edged sword”. Toxics 11 (4): 330. 10.3390/toxics11040330. edoc | Open Access
Zinsstag, J., K. Pelikan, M. Berger Gonzalez, A. Kaiser-Grolimund, L. Crump, S. Mauti, K. Heitz-Tokpa, et al. 2023. “Value-Added Transdisciplinary One Health Research and Problem Solving”. In Handbookf of Transdisciplinaritiy: Global Perspectives, edited by R. J. Lawrence, 333-50. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. 10.4337/9781802207835.00031. edoc
2022
Schwarz, J., and S. Merten. 2022. “’The body is difficult’: reproductive navigation through sociality and corporeality in rural Burundi”. Cult Health Sex, in press. 10.1080/13691058.2021.2020904. edoc
Chetty-Mhlanga, S., P. Viglietti, M. Röösli, and M. A. Dalvie. 2022. “Maternal Drinking Behaviour and Co-Exposure from Smoking During and After Pregnancy in Relation to the Neurocognitive Function of School-Children in the Rural Western Cape”. Neurotoxicology 88: 36-43. 10.1016/j.neuro.2021.10.010. edoc
Degrendele, C., R. Proke�, S. R. Jílková, J. Kohoutek, L. Melymuk, P. Přibylová, M. A. Dalvie, M. Röösli, J. Klánová, and S. Fuhrimann. 2022. “Human Exposure to Pesticides in Dust from Two Agricultural Sites in South Africa”. Toxics 10 (10): 629. 10.3390/toxics10100629. edoc | Open Access
Arowosegbe, O. O., M. Röösli, N. Künzli, A. Saucy, T. C. Adebayo-Ojo, J. Schwartz, M. Kebalepile, M. F. Jeebhay, M. A. Dalvie, and K. de Hoogh. 2022. “Ensemble averaging using remote sensing data to model spatiotemporal PM10 concentrations in sparsely monitored South Africa”. Environmental pollution 310: 119883. 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119883. edoc | Open Access
Veludo, A. F., D. Figueiredo, C. Degrendele, L. Masinyana, L. Curchod, J. Kohoutek, P. Kukučka, et al. 2022. “Seasonal variations in air concentrations of 27 organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and 25 current-use pesticides (CUPs) across three agricultural areas of South Africa”. Chemosphere 289: 133162. 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.133162. edoc | Open Access
Röösli, M., S. Fuhrimann, A. Atuhaire, H. A. Rother, J. Dabrowski, B. Eskenazi, E. Jørs, et al. 2022. “Interventions to Reduce Pesticide Exposure from the Agricultural Sector in Africa: A Workshop Report”. Int J Environ Res Public Health 19 (15): 8973. 10.3390/ijerph19158973. edoc | Open Access
Zinsstag, J., K. Hediger, Y. M. Osman, S. Abukhattab, L. Crump, A. Kaiser-Grolimund, S. Mauti, et al. 2022. “The Promotion and Development of One Health at Swiss TPH and Its Greater Potential”. Diseases 10 (3): 65. 10.3390/diseases10030065. edoc | Open Access
van Zyl-Hermann, D., T. Hammel, C. Burri, J. Chenal, G. Fink, A. A. Konou, E. Nébié, et al. 2022. “Examining African Contributions to Global Health: Reflections on Knowledge Circulation and Innovation”. Glob Public Health, 1-16. 10.1080/17441692.2022.2118343. edoc
Cissé, G., R. McLeman, H. Adams, P. Aldunce, K. Bowen, D. Campbell-Lendrum, S. Clayton, et al. 2022. “2022: Health, Wellbeing, and the Changing Structure of Communities”. In Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, edited by H. O. Pörtner, D. C. Roberts, D. Tignor, E. S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Craig, et al., 1041-1170. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 10.1017/9781009325844.009. edoc
Bühler, J. L., S. Shrikhande, T. Kapwata, G. Cissé, Y. Liang, H. Pedder, M. Kwiatkowski, et al. 2022. “The Association Between Apparent Temperature and Hospital Admissions for Cardiovascular Disease in Limpopo Province, South Africa”. Int J Environ Res Public Health 20 (1): 116. 10.3390/ijerph20010116. edoc | Open Access
2021
Arowosegbe, O. O., M. Röösli, N. Künzli, A. Saucy, T. C. Adebayo-Ojo, M. F. Jeebhay, M. A. Dalvie, and K. de Hoogh. 2021. “Comparing Methods to Impute Missing Daily Ground-Level PM10 Concentrations Between 2010-2017 in South Africa”. Int J Environ Res Public Health 18 (7): 3374. 10.3390/ijerph18073374. edoc | Open Access
Nguyen, T. Y. C., B. O. Fagbayigbo, G. Cissé, N. Redi, S. Fuhrimann, J. Okedi, C. Schindler, et al. 2021. “Diarrhoea among children aged under five years and risk factors in informal settlements: a cross-sectional study in Cape Town, South Africa”. Int J Environ Res Public Health 18 (11): 6043. 10.3390/ijerph18116043. edoc | Open Access
2020
Olaniyan, Toyib, Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie, Martin Röösli, Rajen N. Naidoo, Nino Künzli, Kees de Hoogh, Dilys Berman, Bhawoodien Parker, Joy Leaner, and Mohamed F. Jeebhay. 2020. “Short Term Seasonal Effects of Airborne Fungal Spores on Lung Function in a Panel Study of Schoolchildren Residing in Informal Settlements of the Western Cape of South Africa”. Environmental Pollution 260: 114023. 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114023. edoc
Olaniyan, Toyib, Mohamed Jeebhay, Martin Röösli, Rajen N. Naidoo, Nino Künzli, Kees de Hoogh, Apolline Saucy, et al. 2020. “The Association Between Ambient NO2 and PM2.5 With the Respiratory Health of School Children Residing in Informal Settlements: A Prospective Cohort Study”. Environmental Research 186: 109606. 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109606. edoc
Curchod, L., C. Oltramare, M. Junghans, C. Stamm, M. A. Dalvie, M. Röösli, S. Fuhrimann. 2020. “Temporal variation of pesticide mixtures in rivers of three agricultural watersheds during a major drought in the Western Cape, South Africa”. Water Res X 6: 100039. 10.1016/j.wroa.2019.100039. edoc | Open Access
Fuhrimann, S., J. Klánová, P. Pribylová, J. Kohotek, M. A. Dalvie, M. Röösli, C. Degrendele. 2020. “Qualitative Assessment of 27 Current-Use Pesticides in Air at 20 Sampling Sites across Africa”. Chemosphere 258: 127333. 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127333. edoc
2019
Olaniyan, Toyib, Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie, Martin Röösli, Rajen Naidoo, Nino Künzli, Kees de Hoogh, Bhawoodien Parker, Joy Leaner, and Mohamed Jeebhay. 2019. “Asthma-Related Outcomes Associated With Indoor Air Pollutants Among Schoolchildren from Four Informal Settlements in Two Municipalities in the Western Cape Province of South Africa”. Indoor Air : International Journal of Indoor Environment and Health 29 (1): 89-100. 10.1111/ina.12511. edoc
2018
Saucy, Apolline, Martin Röösli, Nino Künzli, Ming-Yi Tsai, Chloé Sieber, Toyib Olaniyan, Roslynn Baatjies, et al. 2018. “Land Use Regression Modelling of Outdoor NO2 and PM2.5 Concentrations in Three Low Income Areas in the Western Cape Province, South Africa”. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15 (7): 1452. 10.3390/ijerph15071452. edoc | Open Access
2017
Olaniyan, Toyib, Mohamed Jeebhay, Martin Röösli, Rajen Naidoo, Roslynn Baatjies, Nino Künzil, Ming Tsai, et al. 2017. “A Prospective Cohort Study on Ambient Air Pollution and Respiratory Morbidities Including Childhood Asthma in Adolescents from the Western Cape Province: Study Protocol”. BMC Public Health 17: 712. 10.1186/s12889-017-4726-5. edoc | Open Access
2016
Portier, Christopher J, Bruce K Armstrong, Bruce C Baguley, Xaver Baur, Igor Belyaev, Robert Bellé, Fiorella Belpoggi, et al. 2016. “Differences in the Carcinogenic Evaluation of Glyphosate Between the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)”. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 70 (8): 741-5. 10.1136/jech-2015-207005. edoc