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Health indicator

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The role of spatial epidemiology to support public health policies : case studies applied to health promotion, noncommunicable and infectious diseases in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland

In a context of escalating public health challenges, including the rise of chronic diseases, the impact of climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic, certain populations bear a disproportionate burden. As a result, there is an urgent need to develop public ...

EPFL2024

Geographic footprints of life expectancy inequalities in the state of Geneva, Switzerland

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, David Nicolas De Ridder, Anaïs Laurence Ladoy

Though Switzerland has one of the highest life expectancies in the world, this global indicator may mask significant disparities at a local level. The present study used a spatial cluster detection approach based on individual death records to investigate ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

Modelling transport time to trauma centres and 30-day mortality in road accidents in Switzerland: an exploratory study

Stéphane Joost

BACKGROUND: Rapid access to a trauma centre for severely injured road accident victims, conceptualised as the Golden Hour, links access time to definitive treatment within 1 hour of trauma with reduced risks of morbidity and mortality. Access times have no ...

E M H SWISS MEDICAL PUBLISHERS LTD2021

Validity of pervasive computing based continuous physical activity assessment in community-dwelling old and oldest-old

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Philipp Buluschek, Bruno Pais

In older adults, physical activity is crucial for healthy aging and associated with numerous health indicators and outcomes. Regular assessments of physical activity can help detect early health-related changes and manage physical activity targeted interve ...

2019

Population-Level Intervention and Information Collection in Dynamic Healthcare Policy

Thomas Alois Weber

We develop a general framework for optimal health policy design in a dynamic setting. We consider a hypothetical medical intervention for a cohort of patients where one parameter varies across cohorts with imperfectly observable linear dynamics. We seek to ...

2018

Big walkers over non-walking drivers: a walking-related metric for evaluating the success of transportation and public health policies

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Derek Pierre Christie

From the point of view of public health and the environment, it can be argued that people who spontaneously walk great distances display a desirable behaviour, whereas those who drive a car without any walking in public space do not. A suggested metric can ...

2015

Safety Management of Nanomaterials

Thierry Meyer, Arnaud Magrez, Amela Groso

In this work, we present a practical and engineering risk management procedure for a university-wide safety and health management of nanomaterials, developed as a multi-stakeholder effort (government, accident insurance, researchers and experts for occupat ...

2012

Suitability of pesticide risk indicators for Less Developed Countries: A comparison

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Pesticide risk indicators provide simple support in the assessment of environmental and health risks from pesticide use, and can therefore inform policies to foster a sustainable interaction of agriculture with the environment. For their relative simplicit ...

Elsevier2011

Management of nanomaterials safety in research environment

Thierry Meyer, Arnaud Magrez, Amela Groso, Alke Fink

Despite numerous discussions, workshops, reviews and reports about responsible development of nanotechnology, information describing health and environmental risk of engineered nanoparticles or nanomaterials is severely lacking and thus insufficient for co ...

BioMed Central2010

A policy insight into the R&D-patent relationship

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

Contrary to an accepted wisdom, this paper shows that cross-country variations in the number of patents per researcher do not only reflect differences in the propensity to patent but also signals differences in research productivity. We put forward and tes ...

2009

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