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Fall detection with body-worn sensors A systematic review

Background and aims. Falls among older people remain a major public health challenge. Body-worn sensors are needed to improve the understanding of the underlying mechanisms and kinematics of falls. The aim of this systematic review is to assemble, extract ...

Springer Heidelberg2013

The process of injury prevention within an international sport federation - Elite Alpine ski racing as an example

Julien Chardonnens

Since 2006 structured and evidence based research on injury prevention is conducted under the guidance and support of the International Ski Federation (FIS) within the Injury Surveillance System (ISS). The outcome of this work is used directly by the FIS f ...

2013

Concerns related to Safety Management of Engineered Nanomaterials in research environment

Thierry Meyer, Amela Groso

Since the rise of occupational safety and health research on nanomaterials a lot of progress has been made in generating health effects and exposure data. However, when detailed quantitative risk analysis is in question, more research is needed, especially ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

Concerns related to Safety Management of Engineered Nanomaterials in research environment

Thierry Meyer, Amela Groso

2013

Towards a new tuberculosis drug: pyridomycin - nature's isoniazid

Stewart Cole, Florence Pojer, Claudia Sala, Ruben Hartkoorn, Joao Pedro De Almeida Neres, Swapna Uplekar, Raju Mukherjee, Sophie Magnet

Tuberculosis, a global threat to public health, is becoming untreatable due to widespread drug resistance to frontline drugs such as the InhA-inhibitor isoniazid. Historically, by inhibiting highly vulnerable targets, natural products have been an importan ...

Wiley Open Access2012

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

A Review Of Studies On Health Effects Of Power Line Electromagnetic Fields

Michel Ianoz

Suspected to produce harmful consequences on health, the effects of electromagnetic fields of power lines have been extensively studied in the last 30 years. The paper will present a review of epidemiological and experimental studies performed in different ...

Ieee2012

Spatial Dependence of Body Mass Index: Geneva, Switzerland

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, Joël Chételat

Urban health (UH) is an emerging field, which explores the effect of urban environment and urbanization on health. Evidence suggests that urban environment can either positively influence health behaviors or be a health stressor. One key approach in UH is ...

2012

A fine scale analysis of socio-economic and landscape variables for the assessment of health status in Geneva

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, Joël Chételat, Abram Pointet

Significant differences in health status between inhabitants of different commune types of the Geneva area have recently been established in a study relying on a large health database managed by the Unit of Population Epidemiology of the Hôpitaux Universit ...

2012

Generalized reproduction numbers and the prediction of patterns in waterborne disease

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Lorenzo Righetto, Marino Gatto

Understanding, predicting, and controlling outbreaks of waterborne diseases are crucial goals of public health policies, but pose challenging problems because infection patterns are influenced by spatial structure and temporal asynchrony. Although explicit ...

Natl Acad Sciences2012

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