Pascal Geldsetzer

Dados Biográficos

ID1842573
NOMEPascal Geldsetzer
PRENOMESPascal
SOBRENOMEGeldsetzer
ASSINATURAGELDSETZER P
AFILIAÇÕESChan Zuckerberg Initiative (United States)
ORCID0000-0002-8878-5505
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS35
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES7
TOTAL COMO AUTOR35
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2014
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Alcohol Use, Risky Alcohol Use, and Associated Factors Among Adults Living with HIV in Urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Open AccessBelinda J Njiro, J A Ngowi et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2026

    Alcohol use and risky alcohol use are associated with health, social, and psychological complications and may interfere with HIV/AIDS treatment. This study assessed the prevalence and factors associated with alcohol use and risky alcohol use among adults living with HIV in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. This cross-sectional study included data from 771 adults living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART) who were enrolled in a non-inferiority cluster…

  • Does home-based screening improve hypertension diagnosis, treatment and control? A regression discontinuity analysis in urban India

    Open AccessMichaela Theilmann, Sneha Sarah Mani et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    As part of India’s efforts to expand primary healthcare services, several state governments are implementing or considering home-based hypertension screening programmes to improve population-wide diagnosis and blood pressure (BP) control rates. However, there is limited evidence on the effectiveness of home-based screening programmes in India. Using six waves of population-representative cohort data (N=15574), we estimate the causal effect of a h…

  • Accessibility and quality of care for adults with hypertension in rural Burkina Faso

    Open AccessStephanie Lacey, Maria Lisa Odland et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Providing quality healthcare is essential to reduce the future burden of cardiovascular disease. We assessed the quality of care for people with hypertension in Burkina Faso using the Institute of Medicine (IoM) Quality Domains of effectiveness, timeliness of access, patient-centredness and equitability of care. We performed an analysis of cross-sectional household survey data collected from a population-representative sample of 4000 adults ≥40 y…

  • Effects of scalable, wordless, short, animated storytelling videos on hope in China

    Open AccessWenjin Chen, Maya Adam et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2025

    Background: People with higher levels of hope are more likely to be vaccinated. Short, animated story (SAS) videos have shown promise for communicating health messages and boosting hope in certain populations. We explored the potential of scalable SAS vaccine promotion videos for boosting hope levels among Chinese adults. Methods: In this single-blind, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial, we recruited adults from China through quota sampl…

  • Geographic disparities in hospital readmissions

    Open AccessMingyue Li, Haoqing Tang et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2025

    We found significant geographic disparities in hospital readmissions among high-need patients. Patients living farther from hospitals had significantly lower odds of readmissions. Readmission rates reflect patients' healthcare utilization patterns in rural and remote areas. Policymakers should address the geographic access barriers and be cautious when using readmission rates as a measure of hospital performance

  • Multiple cardiovascular risk factor care in 55 low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessAlpha Oumar Diallo, Maja-Emilia Marcus et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The prevalence of multiple age-related cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors is high among individuals living in low- and middle-income countries. We described receipt of healthcare services for and management of hypertension and diabetes among individuals living with these conditions using individual-level data from 55 nationally representative population-based surveys (2009–2019) with measured blood pressure (BP) and diabetes biomarker. We …

  • Individual characteristics associated with road traffic collisions and healthcare seeking in low- and middle-income countries and territories

    Open AccessLeila Ghalichi, Dina Goodman Palmer et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Incidence of road traffic collisions (RTCs), types of users involved, and healthcare requirement afterwards are essential information for efficient policy making. We analysed individual-level data from nationally representative surveys conducted in low- or middle-income countries (LMICs) between 2008–2019. We describe the weighted incidence of non-fatal RTC in the past 12 months, type of road user involved, and incidence of traffic injuries requi…

  • Preferences regarding Covid-19 vaccination among 12,000 adults in China

    Open AccessFengyun Yu, Lirui Jiao et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Understanding public preferences concerning vaccination is critical to inform pandemic response strategies. To investigate Chinese adults’ preferences regarding COVID-19 vaccine attributes, we conducted a cross-sectional online survey in 12,000 Chinese adults in June-July, 2021. Participants were requested to answer a series of discrete choice questions related to hypothetical COVID-19 vaccines. Using mixed logit models, our analysis revealed tha…

  • Long-term care insurance in China

    Open AccessSimiao Chen, Linye Li et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    In establishing long-term care insurance (LTCI), China has recognised the need for a robust and sustainable health care and insurance system to effectively meet the evolving needs of its ageing population and the corresponding increasing demand for long-term care (LTC) services. In 2016, China introduced a pilot LTCI program in 15 cities [1]. By 2020, [...]

  • The impact of health insurance on hypertension care

    Open AccessZixuan Feng, Qiushi Chen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Health insurance did not show significant impact on improving hypertension care cascade among young and middle-aged adults with hypertension in India. Innovative strategies for overcoming practical barriers to healthcare services in addition to improving financial access are needed to address the large unmet need for hypertension care

  • Temporal Patterns of Suicidality Among Adolescents Receiving Behavioral and Mental Health Services in the Community

    Open AccessKaren L Celedonia, Max Karukivi et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2024Referências: 25

  • The prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among adults living in extreme poverty

    Open AccessPascal Geldsetzer, Rebecca L Tisdale et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2024Referências: 37

  • Stakeholder perspectives on interventions to improve HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake and continuation in Lesotho

    Open AccessJoy J Chebet, Shannon A Mcmahon et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Low uptake and high discontinuation remain major obstacles to realizing the potential of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in changing the trajectory of the HIV epidemic. We conducted a card sorting and ranking exercise with 155 local stakeholders to determine their views on the most important barriers and most promising interventions to achieving high PrEP coverage. Stakeholders were a purposive sample of PrEP policymakers and implementing partner…

  • Health service readiness to provide care for HIV and cardiovascular disease risk factors in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessNeil Cockburn, David Flood et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Cardiovascular disease risk factors (CVDRF), in particular diabetes and hypertension, are chronic conditions which carry a substantial disease burden in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Unlike HIV, they were neglected in the Millenium Development Goals along with the health services required to manage them. To inform the level of health service readiness that could be achieved with increased attention, we compared readiness for CVDRF with that f…

  • The impact of a community health worker intervention on uptake of antenatal care

    Open AccessMathilda Regan, Chao Cheng et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2023

    The provision of high-quality antenatal care (ANC) is important for preventing maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity, but only around half of pregnant women in Tanzania attended four or more ANC visits in 2019. Although there is emerging evidence on the benefit of community health worker (CHW) interventions on ANC uptake, few large-scale pragmatic trials have been conducted. This pragmatic cluster-randomized trial, implemented directly thr…

  • Does Early Childhood BCG Vaccination Improve Survival to Midlife in a Population With a Low Tuberculosis Prevalence? Quasi-experimental Evidence on Nonspecific Effects From 32 Swedish Birth Cohorts

    Open AccessMichaela Theilmann, Pascal Geldsetzer et al.ARTICLEDemography2023Citada por: 1Referências: 81

    The Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) is widely used globally. Many high-income countries discontinued nationwide vaccination policies starting in the 1980s as the TB prevalence decreased. However, there is continued scientific interest in whether the general childhood immunity boost conferred by the BCG vaccination impacts adult health and mortality in low-TB contexts (known as nonspecific effects). While recent studie…

  • Knowledge and attitudes about HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis

    Open AccessPascal Geldsetzer, Joy J Chebet et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Studies on knowledge and attitudes about HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) have mostly focused on key populations in North America and Europe. To inform Lesotho’s national rollout of PrEP to the general population, this study aimed to characterize knowledge and attitudes about PrEP among policy makers, implementing partners, healthcare providers, and PrEP end-users in Lesotho. Respondents were purposively selected to participate based on person…

  • Patterns of multimorbidity in India

    Open AccessJonas Prenissl, Jan-Walter De Neve et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    There is a dearth of evidence on the epidemiology of multimorbidity in low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of multimorbidity in India and its variation among states and population groups. We analyzed data from a nationally representative household survey conducted in 2015–2016 among individuals aged 15 to 49 years. Multimorbidity was defined as having two or more conditions out of five common chronic mor…

  • PrEP uptake and delivery setting preferences among clients visiting six healthcare facilities in Eswatini

    Open AccessMaxime Inghels, Hae‐young Kim et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2022

    Due to the high HIV incidence among the general population of Eswatini, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV-exposed individuals is recommended. However, little is known about PrEP uptake and preferences in PrEP delivery healthcare setting among the general population. We conducted a secondary analysis of a randomized trial that aimed to increase PrEP uptake. All clients eligible for PrEP in one of six public-sector healthcare facilities in Es…

  • Maternal iron-and-folic-acid supplementation and its association with low-birth weight and neonatal mortality in India

    Open AccessRajesh Kumar Rai, Jan-Walter De Neve et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2022

    Objective: The current study assessed intake of iron-and-folic-acid (IFA) tablet/syrup (grouped into none, Design: The cross-sectional, nationally representative, 2015–2016 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) data were used. Weighted descriptive analysis and multiple binary logistic regression modelling were used. Setting: NFHS-4 covered 640 districts from thirty-seven states and union territories of India. Participants: A total of 120 374 and…

  • The Impact of Immediate Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy on Patients' Healthcare Expenditures

    Open AccessJanina Isabel Steinert, Shaukat Khan et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2021

    Immediate initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all people living with HIV has important health benefits but implications for the economic aspects of patients' lives are still largely unknown. This stepped-wedge cluster-randomized controlled trial aimed to determine the causal impact of immediate ART initiation on patients' healthcare expenditures in Eswatini. Fourteen healthcare facilities were randomly assigned to transition at one of …

  • Qualitative accounts of PrEP discontinuation from the general population in Eswatini

    Kate Bärnighausen, Pascal Geldsetzer et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2021

    People in receipt of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for the prevention of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa often discontinue taking the medication. We conducted 27 semi-structured interviews with men and women who had started PrEP but did not return to the clinic for a refill after a 1, 2 or 3-month period. These 'discontinuation' clients were enrolled in a PrEP demonstration project for the general population in nurse-led, public-sector, primary-care …

  • Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill

    Open AccessBenjamin Q Huynh, Laura H Kwong et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2021Citada por: 2Referências: 2

    The possibility of a massive oil spill in the Red Sea is increasingly likely. The Safer , a deteriorating oil tanker containing 1.1 million barrels of oil, has been deserted near the coast of Yemen since 2015 and threatens environmental catastrophe to a country presently in a humanitarian crisis. Here, we model the immediate public health impacts of a simulated spill. We estimate that all of Yemen's imported fuel through its key Red Sea ports wou…

  • Willingness to pay for community delivery of antiretroviral treatment in urban Tanzania

    Open AccessPascal Geldsetzer, Alexander Sauer et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021Referências: 24

    Community health worker (CHW)-led community delivery of HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) could increase ART coverage and decongest healthcare facilities. It is unknown how much patients would be willing to pay to receive ART at home and, thus, whether ART community delivery could be self-financing. Set in Dar es Salaam, this study aimed to determine patients’ willingness to pay (WTP) for CHW-led ART community delivery. We sampled ART patients liv…

  • Epidemiology of multimorbidity in conditions of extreme poverty

    Open AccessMaria Lisa Odland, Collin F Payne et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Introduction: Multimorbidity is a health issue of increasing importance worldwide, and is likely to become particularly problematic in low-income countries (LICs) as they undergo economic, demographic and epidemiological transitions. Knowledge of the burden and consequences of multimorbidity in LICs is needed to inform appropriate interventions. Methods: A cross-sectional household survey collected data on morbidities and frailty, disability, qua…