Publications associées à Universal health care

Towards edible robots and robotic food

Dario Floreano, Bokeon Kwak, Markéta Pankhurst, Jun Shintake

Edible robots and robotic food — edible systems that perceive, process and act upon stimulation — could open a new range of opportunities in health care, environmental management and the promotion of healthier eating habits. For example, they could enable ...

2024

Different health systems-Different mortality outcomes? Regional disparities in avoidable mortality across German-speaking Europe, 1992-2019

Mathias Lerch

Background: Evaluating the impact of health systems on premature mortality across different countries is a very challenging task, as it is hardly possible to disentangle it from the influence of contextual factors such as cultural differences. In this resp ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Impact of Topography on Rural Cycling Patterns: Case Study of Bugesera District, Rwanda

Jérôme Chenal, Akuto Akpedze Konou, Baraka Jean-Claude Munyaka, Rim Mrani

Rural mobility in Africa is an under-researched issue. Rural communities have often suffered from reduced mobility that has hampered their access to essential services and facilities such as education, health care, food, and clean water. In many rural comm ...

2023

A scenario modeling pipeline for COVID-19 emergency planning

Francisco Javier Perez Saez, Joseph Chadi Benoit Lemaitre

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused strain on health systems worldwide due to its high mortality rate and the large portion of cases requiring critical care and mechanical ventilation. During these uncertain times, public health decision makers, ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Modified full-face snorkel masks as reusable personal protective equipment for hospital personnel

Patrick Gerber, Mélanie Thérèse Marie Hannebelle, Nitin Arora

Here we adapt and evaluate a full-face snorkel mask for use as personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers, who lack appropriate alternatives during the COVID-19 crisis in the spring of 2020. The design (referred to as Pneumask) consists of ...

2021

Contactless Sleep Monitoring for Early Detection of Health Deteriorations in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Exploratory Study

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Philipp Buluschek, Bruno Pais

Background: Population aging is posing multiple social and economic challenges to society. One such challenge is the social and economic burden related to increased health care expenditure caused by early institutionalizations. The use of modern pervasive ...

JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC2021

Expert recommendation from the Swiss Amyloidosis Network (SAN) for systemic AL-amyloidosis

Alessio Mylonas, Andrea Cavalli, Martin Meyer

Systemic amyloidosis is a heterogeneous group of diseases associated with protein misfolding into insoluble beta-sheet rich structures that deposit extracellularly in different organs, eventually compromising their function. There are more than 30 differen ...

E M H SWISS MEDICAL PUBLISHERS LTD2020

A perspective view on the nanomotion detection of living organisms and its features

Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, Anne-Céline Verenna Kohler, María Inés Villalba, Petar Stupar, Giovanni Longo, Leonardo Venturelli, Massimiliano Bertacchi

The insurgence of newly arising, rapidly developing health threats, such as drug-resistant bacteria and cancers, is one of the most urgent public-health issues of modern times. This menace calls for the development of sensitive and reliable diagnostic tool ...

WILEY2020

Super-elastic multi-material optical fibers for health-care applications

Fabien Sorin, Wei Yan, Alexis Gérald Page, Yunpeng Qu, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Andreas Leber, Nicola Bartolomei

Stretchable optical and electronic fibers constitute increasingly important building blocks for a myriad of applications, particularly in robotics, soft prosthesis, surgical tools and implants, and smart medical textiles. The integration of multi-material ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Cost and benefits of climate change in Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Frank Vöhringer, Boris Thurm, Dario Stocker, Wolfgang Knoke, Anita Frehner

Understanding the economic magnitude of climate change impacts is a prerequisite for developing adequate adaptation strategies. In Switzerland, despite new climate scenarios and impact studies, only few impacts have been monetized. Our objective is to asse ...

2019

Printed silk-fibroin-based triboelectric nanogenerators for multi-functional wearable sensing

Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Xin Liu

The rapid development of wearable sensing technology exhibits unprecedented opportunities for artificial intelligence by establishing an interactive interface between the physical and the virtual worlds. Energy preservation and multi-functional integration ...

Elsevier2019

Unraveling radial dependency effects in fiber thermal drawing

François Gallaire, Fabien Sorin, Alexis Gérald Page, Mathias Simon Daniel Bechert

Fiber-based devices with advanced functionalities are emerging as promising solutions for various applications in flexible electronics and bioengineering. Multimaterial thermal drawing, in particular, has attracted strong interest for its ability to genera ...

2019

Cyber-Medical Systems: Requirements, Components and Design Examples

Giovanni De Micheli

Cyber-medical systems will produce a major revolution in health care, by both raising the quality of care and reducing its cost, thus reaching an important social and economic goal. The evolution of electronic devices and systems has already enabled societ ...

2017

Assessing the impacts of climate change for Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Frank Vöhringer, Boris Thurm, Sophie Maire, Wolfgang Knoke, Dario Stocker, Anita Frehner

Understanding the economic magnitude of climate change impacts is a prerequisite for developing adequate adaptation strategies. In Switzerland, despite new climate scenarios and impacts studies, only few impacts have been monetized. Our objective is to ass ...

2017

Real-time classification technique for early detection and prevention of myocardial infarction on wearable devices

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Dionisije Sopic

Continuous monitoring of patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases and, in particular, myocardial infarction (MI) places a considerable burden on health-care systems and government budgets. The rise of wearable devices alleviates this burden, allowin ...

IEEE2017

Switzerland and the Digital Health Revolution

Didier Trono

New technologies in life sciences are helping to revolutionize health management with the objective to move towards personalized healthcare. The Swiss Federal government is investing in multidisciplinary, countrywide initiatives such as Health 2030 to meet ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2016

Ultra-Low Power Ion-Sensing Smart Platform for Noninvasive Healthcare Applications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Francesco Bellando, Amira Muhech Medrano

The development of nanotechnologies, and the advent of micro/nano-sensors with novel functionalities integrated on flexible substrates, has opened the way to the development of wearable technology. Interest in wearable technology comes from the considerabl ...

2016

Anomaly detection in elderly daily behavior in ambient sensing environments

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Oya Aran, Dairazalia Sanchez Cortes

Current ubiquitous computing applications for smart homes aim to enhance people’s daily living respecting age span. Among the target groups of people, elderly are a population eager for “choices for living arrangements”, which would allow them to continue ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2016

Real-time projections of cholera outbreaks through data assimilation and rainfall forecasting

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Flavio Finger, Damiano Pasetto

Although treatment for cholera is well-known and cheap, outbreaks in epidemic regions still exact high death tolls mostly due to the unpreparedness of health care infrastructures to face unforeseen emergencies. In this context, mathematical models for the ...

Elsevier2016

An Innovative System of Membranes for the Monitoring of Endogenous and Exogenous Metabolites

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Camilla Baj-Rossi, Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh

The development of a low-cost, robust, and versatile biosensors for the rapid detection of endogenous and exogenous metabolites in small animals is of great interest for health-care, pharmaceuticals, and in translational medicine. This work presents a comp ...

Springer2016