Frédérique Chammartin

Datos Biográficos

ID6617027
NOMBREFrédérique Chammartin
NOMBRESFrédérique
APELLIDOChammartin
FIRMACHAMMARTIN F
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Basel
ORCID0000-0001-8959-2724
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS5
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR5
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2021
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Untreated, uncontrolled and below-target hypertension in southern Africa

    Open AccessIliana Margarita Esquivel-Valdes, Giuliana Sanchez-Samaniego et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    INTRODUCTION: Hypertension programmes have expanded substantially in low-income and middle-income countries, yet treatment and control rates remain insufficient. Programme scale-up may lead to suboptimal health outcomes and resource allocation if diagnostic accuracy, monitoring and treatment protocol adherence are inadequate. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of untreated, uncontrolled and below-target hypertension in rural Lesotho, and…

  • Mental health and substance use problems among adolescents in Lesotho

    Open AccessNatalie E Johnson, Irene Falgas-Bague et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2025Referencias: 4

    Adolescence is a developmental window in which mental health symptomatology and other health behaviors can set lifelong trajectories. Yet, adolescent development research in rural areas of low-resource communities is severely lacking. Conceptualized in the Adolescent Well-Being Framework, where diet and activity form a core domain of well-being, we examined two modifiable risk behaviors (sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and physical activity)…

  • Awareness, treatment, and control among adults living with arterial hypertension or diabetes mellitus in two rural districts in Lesotho

    Open AccessLucía González Fernández, Emmanuel Firima et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    In Lesotho, the hypertension and diabetes care cascades are unknown. We measured awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension and diabetes among adults ≥18 years and identified factors associated with each step of the cascade, based on data from a population-based, cross-sectional survey in 120 randomly sampled clusters in the districts of Butha-Buthe and Mokhotlong from 1 st November 2021 to 31 st August 2022. We used multivariable logistic…

  • Prevalence of Mental Health and Substance use Problems and Awareness of Need for Services in Lesotho

    Open AccessLucía González Fernández, Grace H Yoon et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Mental…2024

    We conducted a household survey among 6061 adults in Lesotho to (1) assess the prevalence of moderate/severe mental health (MH) and substance use (SU) problems (2) describe the MH and SU service cascades, and (3) assess predictors of MH and SU problem awareness (i.e., awareness of having a MH/SU problem that requires treatment). Moderate/severe MH or SU problems was reported between 0.7% for anxiety in the past 2 weeks to 36.4% for alcohol use in…

  • Child mortality associated with maternal HIV status

    Open AccessEric Remera, Frédérique Chammartin et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: Child mortality remains highest in regions of the world most affected by HIV/AIDS. The aim of this study was to assess child mortality rates in relation to maternal HIV status from 2005 to 2015, the period of rapid HIV treatment scale-up in Rwanda. METHODS: We used data from the 2005, 2010 and 2015 Rwanda Demographic Health Surveys to derive under-2 mortality rates by survey year and mother's HIV status and to build a multivariable …