Quique Bassat

Dados Biográficos

ID7002347
NOMEQuique Bassat
PRENOMESQuique
SOBRENOMEBassat
ASSINATURABASSAT Q
AFILIAÇÕESInstitució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
ORCID0000-0003-0875-7596
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS37
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR37
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2009
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Pulse oximetry to optimise first-line care and save children’s lives

    Open AccessCatia Cillóniz, Sergio Massora et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    box The use of pulse oximetry improves the early detection of hypoxaemia, generally considered a major risk factor for child mortality, especially in settings where severe illness may otherwise go undetected

  • Diagnostic accuracy of a simplified minimally invasive tissue sampling protocol for stillbirths in low-resource settings

    Open AccessNúria Peñuelas, Adela Saco et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    Background Stillbirth rates remain unacceptably high in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Understanding the causes of death (CoD) is mandatory to develop effective strategies to reduce this high mortality. Minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) is a promising alternative to conventional autopsy (CA) but its validation in stillbirths remains limited. Existing evidence indicates that most samples of conventional MITS (c-MITS) lack diagno…

  • Systematic review of risk assessment tools for post-discharge mortality among children in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessRamya Ginjupalli, Kaitlin Cole et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Post-discharge mortality is increasingly recognized as a major contributor to the high burden of childhood mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Accurate identification of children at risk for post-discharge mortality is critically important to inform interventions to reduce deaths following hospital discharge. Our objective was to describe the current state of development, validation, or implementation for risk assessment tools for post-hospital disc…

  • Postmortem point-of care hemoglobin testing is feasible and potentially accurate among children in South Africa

    Open AccessJeanie du Toit, Yuqing Wang et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Anemia is an important cause of child morbidity and mortality. Postmortem point-of-care hemoglobin testing is a potential method for assessing anemia at death, but its reliability has not been extensively studied. We aimed to assess the feasibility and validity of postmortem point-of-care hemoglobin assessment using HemoCue in the setting of a child mortality surveillance program in South Africa.In a pilot cohort study, 44 children under five yea…

  • Use of minimally invasive tissue sampling to determine the contribution of diarrheal diseases to under-five mortality and associated co-morbidities and co-infections in children with fatal diarrheal d…

    Open AccessPortia Mutevedzi, Portia Chipo Mutevedzi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of reducing child mortality to Shigella /EIEC (14.0%), ST-ETEC (12.4%), rotavirus (26.4%), and adenovirus (non-40/41: 19.0%; 40/41: 5.0%). These pathogens were frequently identified as co-infections. Diarrheal disease accounted for a substantial share of child deaths across CHAMPS sites. Reducing mortality will require preventing diarrhea and addressing key contributors such as malnutrition and HIV

  • Paediatric healthcare in Manhiça district through a gender lens

    Open AccessNúria Balanza, Aura Hunguana et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2025

    Background: Sex and gender are important determinants of health. Gender-based health inequities in the paediatric population have been reported in various countries, but data remain limited. In Mozambique, research on this topic is very scarce. Here we aimed to explore whether boys and girls in Manhiça district, southern Mozambique, differ in access to and provision of healthcare. Methods: This retrospective analysis includes data on all paediatr…

  • Exploring reported causes of vaccine hesitancy among European adolescents and parents

    Open AccessPere Millat-Martínez, Ana Isabel Mora et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Vaccine hesitancy in adolescents and parents in Europe is prevalent, with country of residence as a key influencing factor. Targeted strategies to educate both groups about immunization benefits and its side effects are essential, considering the heterogeneity across countries and reasons for hesitancy

  • Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021

    Open AccessMohsen Naghavi, Kanyin Liane Ong et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Regular, detailed reporting on population health by underlying cause of death is fundamental for public health decision making. Cause-specific estimates of mortality and the subsequent effects on life expectancy worldwide are valuable metrics to gauge progress in reducing mortality rates. These estimates are particularly important following large-scale mortality spikes, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. When systematically analysed, mort…

  • Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessAustin E Schumacher, Hmwe Hmwe Kyu et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Estimates of demographic metrics are crucial to assess levels and trends of population health outcomes. The profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on populations worldwide has underscored the need for timely estimates to understand this unprecedented event within the context of long-term population health trends. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 provides new demographic estimates for 204 cou…

  • Net benefit of smaller human populations to environmental integrity and individual health and wellbeing

    Open AccessChitra Maharani Saraswati, Melinda A Judge et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Introduction: The global human population is still growing such that our collective enterprise is driving environmental catastrophe. Despite a decline in average population growth rate, we are still experiencing the highest annual increase of global human population size in the history of our species-averaging an additional 84 million people per year since 1990. No review to date has accumulated the available evidence describing the associations …

  • Long-term healthcare utilisation, costs and quality of life after invasive group B Streptococcus disease

    Open AccessFarah Seedat, Simon R Procter et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    INTRODUCTION: disease (iGBS) on economic costs or health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in low-income and middle-income countries. We assessed the impact of iGBS on healthcare utilisation, costs and HRQoL in Argentina, India, Kenya, Mozambique and South Africa. METHODS: Inpatient and outpatient visits, out-of-pocket (OOP) healthcare payments in the 12 months before study enrolment, and health-state utility of children and caregivers (using the E…

  • Contribution of malnutrition to infant and child deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

    Open AccessZachary J Madewell, Adama Mamby Keita et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    Introduction Malnutrition contributes to 45% of all childhood deaths globally, but these modelled estimates lack direct measurements in countries with high malnutrition and under-5 mortality rates. We investigated malnutrition’s role in infant and child deaths in the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network. Methods We analysed CHAMPS data from seven sites (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and…

  • Identifying delays in healthcare seeking and provision

    Open AccessElisa Garcia Gomez, Kitiezo Aggrey Igunza et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Delays in illness recognition, healthcare seeking, and in the provision of appropriate clinical care are common in resource-limited settings. Our objective was to determine the frequency of delays in the “Three Delays-in-Healthcare”, and factors associated with delays, among deceased infants and children in seven countries with high childhood mortality. We conducted a retrospective, descriptive study using data from verbal autopsies and medical r…

  • Comparison of causes of stillbirth and child deaths as determined by verbal autopsy and minimally invasive tissue sampling

    Open AccessNega Assefa, Anthony Scott et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    In resource-limited settings where vital registration and medical death certificates are unavailable or incomplete, verbal autopsy (VA) is often used to attribute causes of death (CoD) and prioritize resource allocation and interventions. We aimed to determine the CoD concordance between InterVA and CHAMPS’s method. The causes of death (CoDs) of children

  • Causes of death identified in neonates enrolled through Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS), December 2016 –December 2021

    Open AccessSana Mahtab, Shabir A Madhi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Each year, 2.4 million children die within their first month of life. Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) established in 7 countries aims to generate accurate data on why such deaths occur and inform prevention strategies. Neonatal deaths that occurred between December 2016 and December 2021 were investigated with MITS within 24–72 hours of death. Testing included blood, cerebrospinal fluid and lung cultures, multi-pathoge…

  • Knowledge of Covid-19 symptoms, transmission, and prevention

    Open AccessAriel Nhacolo, Zachary J Madewell et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Understanding community members’ knowledge of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and prevention is essential for directing public health interventions to reduce disease spread and improve vaccination coverage. Here, we describe knowledge of COVID-19 transmission, prevention, and symptoms among community residents in Mozambique. We conducted a cross-sectional survey among 33,087 households in a Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Manhiça, Mozambiqu…

  • Prognostic accuracy of biomarkers of immune and endothelial activation in Mozambican children hospitalized with pneumonia

    Open AccessNúria Balanza, Clara Erice et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Pneumonia is a leading cause of child mortality. However, currently we lack simple, objective, and accurate risk-stratification tools for pediatric pneumonia. Here we test the hypothesis that measuring biomarkers of immune and endothelial activation in children with pneumonia may facilitate the identification of those at risk of death. We recruited children

  • Global, regional, and national disease burden estimates of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in children younger than 5 years in 2019

    Open AccessYou Li, Xin Wang et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2022

    BACKGROUND: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most common cause of acute lower respiratory infection in young children. We previously estimated that in 2015, 33·1 million episodes of RSV-associated acute lower respiratory infection occurred in children aged 0-60 months, resulting in a total of 118 200 deaths worldwide. Since then, several community surveillance studies have been done to obtain a more precise estimation of RSV associated co…

  • Household modifications after the indoor residual spraying (IRS) campaign in Mozambique reduce the actual spray coverage and efficacy

    Open AccessMercy Opiyo, Ellie Sherrard-Smith et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Indoor residual spraying of insecticides (IRS) is a key malaria vector control strategy. Whilst human attitude towards IRS is monitored before or shortly after implementation, human activities leading to the modification of insecticide-treated walls post-IRS are not. This could inadvertently reduce the protective effects of IRS. We monitored the extent of modifications to the sprayed indoor wall surfaces by household owners for six months post-IR…

  • Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health

    Open AccessKatherine R Paulson, Katherine Paulson et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2021

    BACKGROUND: Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 has targeted elimination of preventable child mortality, reduction of neonatal death to less than 12 per 1000 livebirths, and reduction of death of children younger than 5 years to less than 25 per 1000 livebirths, for each country by 2030. To understand current rates, recent trends, and potential trajectories of child mortality for the next decade, we present the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, a…

  • How Did the Covid-19 Lockdown Affect Children and Adolescent's Well-Being

    Open AccessSara Ajanovic, Jon Garrido-Aguirre et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown strategies have been widely used to contain SARS-CoV-2 virus spread. Children and adolescents are especially vulnerable to suffering psychological effects as result of such measures. In Spain, children were enforced to a strict home lockdown for 42 days during the first wave. Here, we studied the effects of lockdown in children and adolescents through an online questionnaire. Methods: A cross-sec…

  • Accuracy of verbal autopsy, clinical data and minimally invasive autopsy in the evaluation of malaria-specific mortality

    Open AccessNatalia Rakislova, Dercio Jordao et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: Global malaria mortality estimates are hindered by the low reliability of the verbal autopsy (VA) and the clinical records, the most common sources of information used to estimate malaria-specific mortality. We aimed to determine the accuracy of these tools, as well as of the minimally invasive autopsy (MIA), a needle-based postmortem sampling method, to identify malaria-specific mortality in a large series of deceased patients from M…

  • Anticipating the future

    Open AccessArjun Chandna, Jennifer Osborn et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    In low-income and middle-income countries, most patients with febrile illnesses present to peripheral levels of the health system where diagnostic capacity is very limited. In these contexts, accurate risk stratification can be particularly impactful, helping to guide allocation of scarce resources to ensure timely and tailored care. However, reporting of prognostic research is often imprecise and few prognostic tests or algorithms are translated…

  • Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019

    Open AccessR Lozano, Nancy Fullman et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

    BACKGROUND: Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) involves all people receiving the health services they need, of high quality, without experiencing financial hardship. Making progress towards UHC is a policy priority for both countries and global institutions, as highlighted by the agenda of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and WHO's Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW13). Measuring effective coverage at the health-system le…

  • Making sense of emerging evidence on the non-specific effects of the BCG vaccine on malaria risk and neonatal mortality

    Open AccessQuique Bassat, Gemma Moncunill et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Vaccines are, indisputably, one of the greatest public health interventions, with a substantial positive impact on child survival. The remarkable declines in child mortality observed during the last quarter of a century, whereby global under 5 deaths were essentially halved, go hand in hand with the estimated 2–3 million child deaths prevented by vaccines annually.1 The premise for this is clear: vaccines directly prevent a variety of life-threat…