Kaspar Wy

Datos Biográficos

ID1728611
NOMBREKaspar Wy
NOMBRESKaspar
APELLIDOWy
FIRMAWY K
AFILIACIONESSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
ORCID0000-0003-0156-5989
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS33
TOTAL DE CITAS9
TOTAL COMO AUTOR33
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1999
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Professional perspectives on roles and structural gaps in interprofessional collaboration for suicide prevention

    Open AccessEva Hollenstein, Dolores Angela Castelli Dransart et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2026

    From a professional perspective, IPC in Swiss suicide prevention is anchored in specialist mental health services but depends on wider cross-sectoral collaboration. Strengthening IPC requires formal coordination roles, interoperable documentation, and durable structures that embed collaboration across care sectors

  • Costs of testing sick children in primary care with pulse oximetry

    Open AccessSusan Horton, Ulrich Adombi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Introducing pulse oximeters (PO) at primary care facilities can help health workers identify severely ill children who need referral to hospital thereby allowing for improved child clinical outcomes. Adding clinical decision support algorithms (CDSA) can improve adherence to Integrated Management of Childhood Illness guidelines. The current study analyses the costs of introducing PO either with or without an electronic CDSA using an RCT in India …

  • Advancing suicide prevention in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

    Open AccessSophia Werdin, Kaspar WyARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Introduction: Suicide is a significant public health problem, impacting individuals, families and communities worldwide. Effective suicide prevention requires a comprehensive approach with diverse integrated interventions and collaboration across sectors, stakeholders and professions. This study aims to identify challenges, gaps and success factors in current suicide prevention efforts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, providing specific recom…

  • Human resources for health

    Open AccessOgonna Nwankwo, Cornelia Auer et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BACKGROUND: Human resources are a key determinant for the quality of healthcare and health outcomes. Several human resource management approaches or practices have been proposed and implemented to better understand and address health workers' challenges with mixed results particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The aim of this framework synthesis was to review the human resources frameworks commonly available to address human re…

  • The Tools for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (Timci) study protocol

    Open AccessFenella Beynon, Hélène Langet et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    Effective and sustainable strategies are needed to address the burden of preventable deaths among children under-five in resource-constrained settings. The Tools for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (TIMCI) project aims to support healthcare providers to identify and manage severe illness, whilst promoting resource stewardship, by introducing pulse oximetry and clinical decision support algorithms (CDSAs) to primary care facilities in I…

  • From Perform to Perform2Scale

    Open AccessJudith Raven, Wesam Mansour et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2024

    Strengthening management and leadership competencies among district and local health managers has emerged as a common approach for health systems strengthening and to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). While the literature is rich with localized examples of initiatives that aim to strengthen the capacity of district or local health managers, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, considerably less attention is paid to the science of ‘how’ to s…

  • Mental health of individuals at increased suicide risk after hospital discharge and initial findings on the usefulness of a suicide prevention project in Central Switzerland

    Open AccessSophia Werdin, Günther Fink et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2024

    Low to moderate levels of self-efficacy, self-management, and health literacy underscore the need for targeted interventions to support individuals at suicide risk. Positive feedback on the personal safety plan and the SERO app suggests their potential effectiveness in helping individuals manage their suicidality. Therefore, integrating structured measures for promoting self-management into standard care protocols in psychiatric hospitals and int…

  • Challenges in the evaluation of suicide prevention measures and quality of suicide data in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

    Open AccessSophia Werdin, Kaspar Wy et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    While some challenges in evaluating suicide prevention measures are inevitable, others can potentially be mitigated. Evaluations could be enhanced by combining traditional and innovative research designs, including intermediate outcomes and factors concerning the implementation process, and employing participatory and transdisciplinary research to engage different stakeholders. Reliable suicide data are essential for identifying trends, supportin…

  • Introduction and acceptability of the Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (Sormas) during the Covid-19 pandemic in Côte d’Ivoire

    Open AccessTanja Barth‐Jaeggi, Tanja Barth-Jaeggi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    SORMAS was very well accepted by users and decision makers in the two pilot regions of Côte d'Ivoire and its ability to improve epidemic preparedness and surveillance was acknowledged. If the hurdles of maintenance (tablets, server, and maintaining user skills) are handled sustainably, it can serve as a valid tool to identify, surveil and manage future outbreaks of various infectious diseases in Côte d'Ivoire

  • What makes health systems resilient? A qualitative analysis of the perspectives of Swiss NGOs

    Open AccessPauline Yongeun Grimm, Kaspar WyARTICLEGlobalization and Health2022

    BACKGROUND: Resilience has become relevant than ever before with the advent of increasing and intensifying shocks on the health system and its amplified effects due to globalization. Using the example of non-state actors based in Switzerland, the aim of this study is to explore how and to what extent NGOs with an interest in global health have dealt with unexpected shocks on the health systems of their partner countries and to reflect on the prac…

  • Association of Different Restriction Levels With Covid-19-Related Distress and Mental Health in Somatic Inpatients

    Open AccessNicola Julia Aebi, Günther Fink et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    www.ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier: NCT04269005

  • Health Seeking Behavior Among Adults and Elderly With Chronic Health Condition(s) in Albania

    Open AccessJonila Gabrani, Christian Schindler et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Aim: Assess the use of different health care service providers by adults (aged 18–59) and elderly (aged > =60) who suffer from non-communicable disease (NCD) and explore relationships between sociodemographic variables and care-seeking behaviors. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in the districts of Diber and Fier in December 2018, using random cluster sampling. Descriptive statistics were used to compare the care-seeking behaviors …

  • Assessing the Quality of Care at Primary Health Care Level in Two Pilot Regions of Albania

    Open AccessJasmina Saric, Sabine Kiefer et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    The quality of care (QoC) of primary health care (PHC) services in Albania faces challenges on multiple levels including governance, access, infrastructure and health care workers. In addition, there is a lack of trust in the latter. The Health for All Project (HAP) funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation therefore aimed at enhancing the population's health by improving PHC services and implementing health promotion activities …

  • A health systems resilience research agenda

    Open AccessDell D Saulnier, Karl Blanchet et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    Health system resilience, known as the ability for health systems to absorb, adapt or transform to maintain essential functions when stressed or shocked, has quickly gained popularity following shocks like COVID-19. The concept is relatively new in health policy and systems research and the existing research remains mostly theoretical. Research to date has viewed resilience as an outcome that can be measured through performance outcomes, as an ab…

  • The shift from inpatient care to outpatient care in Switzerland since 2017

    Open AccessAron Baumann, Kaspar WyARTICLEHealth Policy2021

  • Potenciando La Atención De Salud Para El Futuro en Suiza

    Open AccessSabina De Geest, Franziska Zúñiga et al.ARTICLETexto & Contexto - Enfermagem2021

    status: Published online

  • How Does District Health Management Emerge Within a Complex Health System? Insights for Capacity Strengthening in Ghana

    Open AccessAnne Christine Stender Heerdegen, Jana Gerold et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2020

    District health managers (DHMs) play a pivotal role in the operation of district health systems in low - and middle income countries, including Ghana. Their capacity is determined by their competencies, but also by the organization and system in which they are embedded. The objective of this paper is to explore how district health management emerges from contextual, organizational and individual factors in order to demonstrate that capacity stren…

  • Incorporating operational research in programmes funded by the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria in four sub-Saharan African countries

    Open AccessSalvador Camacho, Dermot Maher et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2020

    BACKGROUND: The current study builds upon a previous situation analysis of the extent to which grants from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) are being utilized to support operational research and implementation research (OR/IR) activities in recipient countries. The objective of this follow-up study was to identify approaches and pathways to implement an OR component into grants to the Global Fund, in four sub-…

  • The effects of medicines availability and stock-outs on household’s utilization of healthcare services in Dodoma region, Tanzania

    Open AccessAugust Kuwawenaruwa, Kaspar Wy et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2020Referencias: 52

    Low- and middle-income countries have been undertaking health finance reforms to address shortages of medicines. However, data are lacking on how medicine availability and stock-outs influence access to health services in Tanzania. The current study assesses the effects of medicine availability and stock-outs on healthcare utilization in Dodoma region, Tanzania. We conducted a cross-sectional study that combined information from households and he…

  • Nutritional status of Tajik children and women

    Open AccessTanja Barth‐Jaeggi, Lizelle Zandberg et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2019

    The double burden of malnutrition, an emerging concern in developing countries, can exist at various levels: individual, household, and population. Here, we explore the nutritional status of Tajik women (15-49 years) and children (5-59 months) focusing on overweight/obesity along with undernutrition (underweight, stunting, and micronutrient deficiencies). For this, nutritional markers (haemoglobin (Hb), transferrin receptor (TfR), serum ferritin …

  • How does membership in local savings groups influence the determinants of national health insurance demand? A cross-sectional study in Kisumu, Kenya

    Open AccessTessa Oraro, Kaspar WyARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2018

    Our findings suggest that ROSCA membership may play a role in increasing health insurance demand amongst some traditionally under-represented groups such as women and the self-employed. However, the strategy of targeting ROSCAs to increase national health insurance enrolment may yield exiguous results, given that ROSCA membership is itself influenced by several non-observable factors - such as time-availability and self-selection. It is therefore…

  • The influence of gender and household headship on voluntary health insurance

    Open AccessTessa Oraro, Nestor Ngube et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2018Referencias: 25

    Within the existing health financing literature, males are typically categorized as the household's decision-makers. While this view accurately reflects many local sociocultural realities, approximately a quarter of sub-Saharan African households are now headed by females. In light of various efforts to expand health insurance coverage in the region, it is necessary to examine whether the factors influencing voluntary health insurance enrolment a…

  • Operational and implementation research within Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria grants

    Open AccessSabine Kiefer, Astrid M Knoblauch et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2017

    BACKGROUND: Operational/implementation research (OR/IR) is a key activity to improve disease control programme performance. We assessed the extent to which malaria and tuberculosis (TB) grants from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria ("Global Fund") include support for OR/IR, and discuss the implications of the current Global Fund operating mechanisms for OR/IR support. METHODS: The situation analysis focussed on malaria and T…

  • Global health initiative investments and health systems strengthening

    Open AccessAshley Warren, Ashley E Warren et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2013

    BACKGROUND: Millions of dollars are invested annually under the umbrella of national health systems strengthening. Global health initiatives provide funding for low- and middle-income countries through disease-oriented programmes while maintaining that the interventions simultaneously strengthen systems. However, it is as yet unclear which, and to what extent, system-level interventions are being funded by these initiatives, nor is it clear how m…

  • An approach to addressing governance from a health system framework perspective

    Open AccessInez Mikkelsen-Lopez, Kaspar Wy et al.ARTICLEBMC International Health and…2011

    As countries strive to strengthen their health systems in resource constrained contexts, policy makers need to know how best to improve the performance of their health systems. To aid these decisions, health system stewards should have a good understanding of how health systems operate in order to govern them appropriately. While a number of frameworks for assessing governance in the health sector have been proposed, their application is often hi…