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Marcel Tanner
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Spatial Epidemiology of Urban Health Risks in Select West African Cities
West African cities face critical societal challenges that are linked to environmental and health changes. These challenges are further exacerbated by urbanization dynamics, climate change, socio-economic muta...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Ecohealth and Climate Change: Adaptation to Flooding Events in Riverside Secondary Cities, West Africa
In 2009, for the first time in history, more people were found to live in urban areas than in rural settings. Predictions for 2025 are that 70% of the world’s population will be urban. Urban dwellers in partic...
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Participatory Map** as a Component of Operational Malaria Vector Control in Tanzania
Global efforts to tackle malaria have gained unprecedented momentum. However, in order to move towards the ambitious goal of eliminating and eventually eradicating malaria, existing tools must be improved and ...
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Towards Integrated and Adapted Health Services for Nomadic Pastoralists and their Animals: A North–South Partnership
Mobility of pastoralists in arid and semi-arid zones renders access to primary social services difficult. The experiences, local concepts and propositions of nomadic communities of Chad were essential to fill ...
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Experimental Filariasis in the Syrian Hamster; Immunological Aspects of Complex Host-Parasite Interactions
The Syrian hamster has been introduced as an experimental host for a large number of infective agents such as viruses, bacteria, protozoa and helminths (1). Only a few researchers, however, have used hamster m...
