Nicole Probst-Hensch

Datos Biográficos

ID201544
NOMBRENicole Probst-Hensch
NOMBRESNicole
APELLIDOProbst-Hensch
FIRMAPROBST-HENSCH N
AFILIACIONESSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
ORCID0000-0001-8561-5976
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS45
TOTAL DE CITAS4
TOTAL COMO AUTOR45
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2007
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
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  • Can One Health help reduce the environmental impacts of the healthcare system in Switzerland? Insights from an interdisciplinary focus group

    Open AccessG Brulé, P Boiko et al.ARTICLEEthics Medicine and Public Health2026

    Background Healthcare systems contribute to about 5% of the emissions of the greenhouse gases globally when taken together. With 6.7% of its national emissions of greenhouse gases, the Swiss healthcare system is among the biggest contributors worldwide when taken per capita. Although isolated initiatives to reduce environmental impacts have emerged these last years, there is a strong need for better understanding the barriers and the possibilitie…

  • A call for research and policy into building multi-layered social resilience toward a sustainable agricultural workforce in Switzerland

    Open AccessJulia Doetzer, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    The agricultural workforce is exposed to rapidly changing working conditions due to societal, economic, political, and ecological challenges. In the Swiss farming community, poor mental wellbeing is a growing concern and research focuses on the distribution and hazards of psychological distress in farmers and their social network. This perspective benefits from insights of the first agricultural cohort in Switzerland, illustrating the complex fie…

  • Predictors of metabolic syndrome among teachers in under-resourced schools in South Africa

    Open AccessNandi Joubert, Larissa Adams et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for most of global deaths, with rising prevalence in low-and middle-income countries. Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of interrelated NCD risk factors, including obesity, dyslipidaemia, hypertension, and hyperglycaemia, that amplify NCD risk. Four leading modifiable factors driving NCDs are physical inactivity, tobacco and alcohol use, and an unhealthy diet. Teachers in under-resourced schools face …

  • Asylum seekers and refugees’ access to oral health care services in Switzerland

    Open AccessLujain Alchalabi, Nicole Probst-Hensch et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2025

    The current findings point to the need for systemic reforms to improve coverage, communication, and preventive care, while promoting equitable, tooth-preserving treatment options for asylum seekers and refugees

  • Prevalence of depression in a large regionally representative population sample in Côte d’Ivoire

    Open AccessLena Jäggi, Irene Falgas-Bague et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The results presented here suggest that the depression burden in rural Côte d'Ivoire is moderate, with a particularly high burden among women and elderly individuals. Mental health services are needed to specifically support this population

  • Parental modelling has a sustainable effect on offspring’s physical activity

    Open AccessBettina Bringolf-Isler, Bettina Bringolf‐Isler et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Parental role modelling influences children's PA behavior in a sustainable and sex-specific manner from childhood to young adulthood. PA interventions for parents have the potential for transgenerational benefits

  • Depression and anxiety symptoms in male and female farmers

    Open AccessPeter Ammann, Annie Jeong et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Empirical research on farmers’ mental health in Switzerland is limited. This study uses cross-sectional data from the first follow-up of the FarmCoSwiss cohort to descriptively compare depression and anxiety symptom prevalence between Swiss farmers and the Swiss general population. Furthermore, the association of these mental health outcomes with farm-related characteristics and individual-based mental health protection strategies was explored. O…

  • Does growing up in a physical activity-friendly neighborhood increase the likelihood of remaining active during adolescence and early adulthood

    Open AccessBettina Bringolf-Isler, Bettina Bringolf‐Isler et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    The results suggest that growing up in a physical activity friendly neighborhood increases the likelihood of remaining active during adolescence and early adulthood. Interventions should be implemented to ensure that children growing up in an unfavorable neighborhood do not fall behind at an early stage

  • Improving coverage of antenatal iron and folic acid supplementation and malaria prophylaxis through targeted information and home deliveries in Côte d’Ivoire

    Open AccessSiaka Koné, Nicole Probst-Hensch et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    INTRODUCTION: Coverage of antenatal iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation and malaria chemoprophylaxis remains low in many low-income and middle-income settings. We assessed the effectiveness of personal information (INFO) sessions and personal information session plus home deliveries (INFO+DELIV) to increase coverage of IFA supplementation and intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp), and their effectiveness on postpartum anaemi…

  • Prospective association between depressive symptoms and blood-pressure related outcomes in Kosovo

    Open AccessKatrina Obas, Marek Kwiatkowski et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Kosovo has the lowest life expectancy in the Western Balkans, where cardiovascular disease (CVD) accounts for over half of all deaths. Depression also contributes to disability in the country, with a prevalence of moderate to severe symptoms reported as high as 42% in the general population. Although the mechanisms are not yet well understood, evidence suggests that depression is an independent risk factor for CVD. Our study assessed the prospect…

  • Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of high blood pressure in a cohort in Northern Andean Peru

    Open AccessGiuliana Sanchez-Samaniego, Stella M Hartinger et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2023

    BACKGROUND: Gaps exist along the high blood pressure (HBP) diagnosis-treatment-control pathway in high, low and middle-income countries. OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of HBP and to describe the levels of awareness, control and treatment of HBP in the rural Peruvian Andes. METHODS: = 2752) who answered a baseline health and lifestyle questionnaire and underwent a physical examination, which included three blood pressure readings. HBP was …

  • Changes in socioeconomic resources and mental health after the second Covid-19 wave (2020–2021)

    Open AccessStefano Tancredi, Agnė Ulytė et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2023

    This study confirms the association of economic stressors and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights the exacerbating role of subjective risk perception on this association

  • It is difficult for us to treat their pain”. Health professionals’ perceptions of Somali pastoralists in the context of pain management

    Open AccessEleonore Baum, Sied Abdi et al.ARTICLEMedical Humanities2023Referencias: 6

    Pain is one of the most neglected areas of care in sub-Saharan Africa. Access to adequate pain management is important, especially in marginalised populations, such as pastoralists. Little is known about health professionals' perceptions of pain-related care for Somali pastoralists. This study seeks to understand health professionals' perceptions of Somali pastoralists in the context of pain management in Eastern Ethiopia. Within the scope of thi…

  • Barriers to evidence use for sustainability

    Open AccessBenjamin Hofmann, Karin Ingold et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2023Citada por: 3Referencias: 75

    Calls for supporting sustainability through more and better research rest on an incomplete understanding of scientific evidence use. We argue that a variety of barriers to a transformative impact of evidence arises from diverse actor motivations within different stages of evidence use. We abductively specify this variety in policy and practice arenas for three actor motivations (truth-seeking, sense-making, and utility-maximizing) and five stages…

  • Strengthening Primary Healthcare in Kosovo Requires Tailoring Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention Interventions and Consideration of Mental Health

    Open AccessKatrina Obas, Katrina Ann Obas et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Objectives: Kosovo has the lowest life expectancy in the Balkans. Primary healthcare (PHC) plays an essential role in non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention. We described primary, secondary and tertiary prevention indicators in Kosovo and assessed their association with depressive symptoms. Methods: = 977) from the Kosovo NCD cohort baseline study were included. Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Depressive Anxiety Stress Scale-21. Cr…

  • Change in nutritional status of urban slum children before and after the first Covid-19 wave in Bangladesh

    Open AccessHayman Win, Sohana Shafique et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    The onset of COVID-19 severely disrupted economies and increased acute household food insecurity in developing countries. Consequently, a global rise in childhood undernutrition was predicted, especially among vulnerable populations, but primary evidence on actual changes in nutritional status remained scarce. In this paper, we assessed shifts in nutritional status of urban slum children in Bangladesh pre- and post- the country’s first wave of CO…

  • Short-Term Effects of PM10, NO2, SO2 and O3 on Cardio-Respiratory Mortality in Cape Town, South Africa, 2006–2015

    Open AccessTemitope Christina Adebayo-Ojo, Janine Wichmann et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    The findings suggest that air pollution is associated with mortality, and exposure to PM 10 advances the death of frail population

  • Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, Weight Status, and Body Composition among South African Primary Schoolchildren

    Open AccessMarkus Gerber, Christin Lang et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Background: Over the past decades, childhood overweight has increased in many African countries. We examined the relationship between sedentary behaviour, moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), and body composition in South African primary schoolchildren living in peri-urban settings. Methods: MVPA was measured via 7-day accelerometry and body composition via bioelectrical impedance analysis in 1090 learners (49.2% girls, M age = 8.3 ± 1.…

  • Short-Term Joint Effects of PM10, NO2 and SO2 on Cardio-Respiratory Disease Hospital Admissions in Cape Town, South Africa

    Open AccessTemitope Christina Adebayo-Ojo, Janine Wichmann et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    We found robust associations of daily respiratory disease hospital admissions with daily PM 10 and NO 2 concentrations. Associations were strongest among children and warm season for RD

  • Harmonization of Human Biomonitoring Studies in Europe

    Open AccessLiese Gilles, Eva Govarts et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Human biomonitoring has become a pivotal tool for supporting chemicals' policies. It provides information on real-life human exposures and is increasingly used to prioritize chemicals of health concern and to evaluate the success of chemical policies. Europe has launched the ambitious REACH program in 2007 to improve the protection of human health and the environment. In October 2020 the EU commission published its new chemicals strategy for sust…

  • The neighborhood environment and its association with the spatio-temporal footprint of tobacco consumption and changes in smoking-related behaviors in a Swiss urban area

    Open AccessJuan R Vallarta‐robledo, Juan R Vallarta-Robledo et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2022Referencias: 7

    This study aimed to evaluate the association of the neighborhood environment with the spatio-temporal dependence of tobacco consumption and changes in smoking-related behaviors in a Swiss urban area. Data were obtained from the CoLaus cohort (2003-2006, 2009-2012, and 2014-2017) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Local Moran's I was performed to assess the spatial dependence of tobacco consumption. Prospective changes in tobacco consumption and the locati…

  • Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity Is Associated With Cardiorespiratory Fitness Among Primary Schoolchildren Living in Côte d'Ivoire, South Africa, and Tanzania

    Open AccessMarkus Gerber, Serge A Ayekoé et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Background: Physical inactivity and low cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) are independent cardiovascular risk factors among children, but have rarely been investigated concurrently in sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose of this study was to compare physical activity (PA) and CRF of primary schoolchildren living in Côte d'Ivoire (CI), South Africa (ZA), and Tanzania (TZ), to test sex- and age-related differences, and to examine whether PA and CRF are as…

  • Causal Effects of Body Mass Index on Airflow Obstruction and Forced Mid-Expiratory Flow

    Open AccessNicole Probst-Hensch, Ayoung Jeong et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Obesity has complex links to respiratory health. Mendelian randomization (MR) enables assessment of causality of body mass index (BMI) effects on airflow obstruction and mid-expiratory flow. In the adult SAPALDIA cohort, recruiting 9,651 population-representative samples aged 18–60 years at baseline (female 51%), BMI and the ratio of forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV 1 ) to forced vital capacity (FVC) as well as forced mid-expiratory flow…

  • Understanding urban inequalities in children’s linear growth outcomes

    Open AccessHayman Win, Jordyn T Wallenborn et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Although the intra-urban disparity in child linear growth status declined over the 2000-2018 period, socioeconomic gaps remain significant. Increased nutrition-sensitive programs and investments targeting the urban poor to improve girls' education, household food security, and maternal and child health services could aid in further narrowing the remaining linear growth gap

  • Spatial clusters of daily tobacco consumption before and after a smoke-free policy implementation

    Open AccessJuan R Vallarta‐robledo, Juan R Vallarta-Robledo et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2021Referencias: 9

    This study assessed the spatial dependence of daily tobacco consumption and how it is spatially impacted by individual and neighborhood socioeconomic determinants, and tobacco consumption facilities before and after a smoke-free implementation. Individual data was obtained from the Bus Santé, a cross-sectional survey in Geneva. Spatial clusters of high and low tobacco consumption were assessed using Getis-Ord Gi*. Daily tobacco consumption was no…