Elburg Van Boetzelaer

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ID1405528
NOMEElburg Van Boetzelaer
PRENOMESElburg
SOBRENOMEVan Boetzelaer
ASSINATURAVAN BOETZELAER E
AFILIAÇÕESMédecins Sans Frontières
ORCID0000-0002-1168-8491
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES3
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2018
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H1

  • Health conditions of older adults in complex humanitarian settings in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessElburg Van Boetzelaer, Patrick Keating et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BACKGROUND: Inpatient admissions of older adults in humanitarian settings in low-income and middle-income countries remain poorly documented, likely leading to gaps in the delivery of age-appropriate health services. This analysis aims to contribute to age-adapted and gender-adapted healthcare strategies in humanitarian settings. METHODS: This multicountry study includes adults who were admitted at Médecins Sans Frontières-supported inpatient dep…

  • Mental health of older adults in humanitarian settings in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessElburg Van Boetzelaer, Patrick Keating et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BACKGROUND: More complex humanitarian emergencies have a profound impact on a rapidly growing ageing population. There are few data available on the mental health conditions of older people in humanitarian settings. This study describes mental health symptoms among older adults to inform the development of age-adapted and gender-adapted mental health services in humanitarian contexts. METHODS: This multicountry study includes data from adults age…

  • Differences in mental health between younger and older adults in complex humanitarian settings in low-income and middle-income countries

    Open AccessElburg Van Boetzelaer, Raghda Sleit et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BACKGROUND: Humanitarian emergencies increase the risk of development or exacerbation of mental health conditions. This study documents how mental health differs between younger and older adults to inform adapted mental health services in humanitarian settings. METHODS: This multicountry study includes adults who accessed Médecins Sans Frontières-supported mental health services in humanitarian settings across 20 low-income and middle-income coun…

  • Evaluation of a multi-component early warning system for pastoralist populations in Doolo zone, Ethiopia

    Open AccessLuke Baertlein, B Ali Dubad et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2024

    Event-based surveillance can produce useful data for localized public health action for pastoralist populations. Improvements could include greater community involvement in the system design and potentially incorporating One Health approaches

  • Elderly people in humanitarian crises, a forgotten population

    Open AccessElburg Van Boetzelaer, Jessica L Browne et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The globally growing ageing population, an increasing number of natural disasters, and the ongoing effects of climate change will result in more complex humanitarian crises in the decades to come The proportion of the population aged 50 and over in fragile countries, where conflict and disasters are more likely to cause greatest harm, is expected to rise from 12.3 per cent (219.9 million) in 2020 to 19.2 per cent (586.3 million) in 2050 UNHCR war…

  • Use and Quality of Blood Cultures for the Diagnosis of Bloodstream Infections

    Open AccessEmily Boakye-Yiadom, Robinah Najjemba et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Blood Culture and Drug Susceptibility Testing (CDST) remains vital for the diagnosis and management of bloodstream infections (BSIs). While the Ghana National Standard Treatment Guidelines require CDST to be performed in each case of suspected or clinically diagnosed BSI, these are poorly adhered to in the Ho Teaching Hospital (HTH). This study used secondary medical and laboratory records to describe blood CDST requests by clinicians and the qua…

  • Severe acute malnutrition treatment delivered by low-literate community health workers in South Sudan

    Open AccessNaoko Kozuki, Elburg Van Boetzelaer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2020

    BACKGROUND: Community health worker (CHW)-delivered acute malnutrition treatment programs have been tested previously, but not with low-literate/-numerate cadres who operate in areas with the highest malnutrition burden and under-five mortality rates. The International Rescue Committee developed low-literacy-adapted tools and treatment protocol to enable low-literate/-numerate community-based distributors (CBD, the CHW cadre in South Sudan) to tr…

  • Performance of low‐literate community health workers treating severe acute malnutrition in South Sudan

    Open AccessElburg Van Boetzelaer, Annie Zhou et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2019

    Previous studies have described barriers to access of childhood severe acute malnutrition (SAM) treatment, including long travel distances and high opportunity costs. To increase access in remote communities, the International Rescue Committee developed a simplified SAM treatment protocol and low-literacy-adapted tools for community-based distributors (CBD, the community health worker cadre in South Sudan) to deliver treatment in the community. A…

  • Monitoring and reporting attacks on education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia

    Open AccessCyril Bennouna, Elburg Van Boetzelaer et al.ARTICLEDisasters2018Citada por: 3Referências: 2

    The United Nations' Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism is charged with documenting six grave violations against children in a time of conflict, including attacks on schools. Many of these incidents, however, remain unreported across the globe. This study explores whether or not a local knowledge base of education and child protection actors in North and South Kivu Provinces, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in Mogadishu, Somalia, could contr…