Marcel Zwahlen

Biographic Data

ID5540843
NAMEMarcel Zwahlen
GIVEN NAMESMarcel
FAMILY NAMEZwahlen
SIGNATUREZWAHLEN M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Bern
ORCID0000-0002-6772-6346
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Selling, buying and eating – a synthesis study on dietary patterns across language regions in Switzerland

    Open AccessKatarina L Matthes, Christine A Zuberbuehler et al.ARTICLEBritish Food Journal2022

    Purpose Cross-cultural studies on differences in eating and consumer behavior have several limitations due to differences between countries, for example, in national health policies. Switzerland combines cultural diversity between the language regions, but with a common national health policy. Therefore, Switzerland provides an ideal framework to investigate cross-cultural eating and consumer behavior. The aim of this study was to combine food co…

  • Regional Variation of Cost of Care in the Last 12 Months of Life in Switzerland

    Open AccessRadoslaw Panczak, Xhyljeta Luta et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2017References: 43

    BACKGROUND: Health care spending increases sharply at the end of life. Little is known about variation of cost of end of life care between regions and the drivers of such variation. We studied small-area patterns of cost of care in the last year of life in Switzerland. METHODS: We used mandatory health insurance claims data of individuals who died between 2008 and 2010 to derive cost of care. We used multilevel regression models to estimate diffe…

  • Retention in care under universal antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected pregnant and breastfeeding women (‘Option B+’) in Malawi

    Lyson Tenthani, Andreas D Haas et al.ARTICLEAIDS2014

    OBJECTIVE: To explore the levels and determinants of loss to follow-up (LTF) under universal lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) for pregnant and breastfeeding women ('Option B+') in Malawi. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: We examined retention in care, from the date of ART initiation up to 6 months, for women in the Option B+ program. We analysed nationwide facility-level data on women who started ART at 540 facilities (n = 21,939), as well…

  • What does your neighbourhood say about you? A study of life expectancy in 1.3 million Swiss neighbourhoods

    André Moser, Radoslaw Panczak et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2014Cited by: 2References: 43

    BACKGROUND: Switzerland had the highest life expectancy at 82.8 years among the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries in 2011. Geographical variation of life expectancy and its relation to the socioeconomic position of neighbourhoods are, however, not well understood. METHODS: We analysed the Swiss National Cohort, which linked the 2000 census with mortality records 2000-2008 to estimate life expectancy across ne…

  • Featured Graphic. The Socioeconomic Position of Swiss Neighbourhoods

    Open AccessRadoslaw Panczak, Adrian Spörri et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2013

  • Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Selected European Countries and US States

    Nicole Steck, Matthias Egger et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2013References: 9

    BACKGROUND: Legal in some European countries and US states, physician-assisted suicide and voluntary active euthanasia remain under debate in these and other countries. OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to examine numbers, characteristics, and trends over time for assisted dying in regions where these practices are legal: Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Oregon, Washington, and Montana. DESIGN: This was a systematic review of…

  • A Swiss neighbourhood index of socioeconomic position

    Radoslaw Panczak, Bruna Galobardes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2012Cited by: 9References: 27

    BACKGROUND: Area-based measures of socioeconomic position (SEP) suitable for epidemiological research are lacking in Switzerland. The authors developed the Swiss neighbourhood index of SEP (Swiss-SEP). METHODS: Neighbourhoods of 50 households with overlapping boundaries were defined using Census 2000 and road network data. Median rent per square metre, proportion households headed by a person with primary education or less, proportion headed by a…

  • Domains of physical activity and all-cause mortality

    Guenther Samitz, Matthias Egger et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2011

  • Sexual transmission of HIV according to viral load and antiretroviral therapy

    Suzanna Attia, Matthias Egger et al.ARTICLEAIDS2009

  • A case-control study of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Switzerland

    Open AccessJessica Rüegger, Katharina Stoeck et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2009

    Although some factors were significantly more frequent among sCJD-cases, this study did not reveal specific explanations for the increased incidence of deaths due to sporadic CJD observed in Switzerland since 2001. Results have to be interpreted with caution due to multiple testing and possible recall bias in association with a long incubation period. The most plausible reason for the increase in Swiss sCJD cases after 2000 is an improved case as…

  • Body-mass index and incidence of cancer

    Open AccessAndrew G Renehan, Margaret Tyson et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2008