André Rougemont

TL;DR: The careful but rapid translation procedure used in this study may be an effective alternative to full-scale cultural adaptations when resources are limited and the instrument retained excellent psychometric properties even when used in a generally very healthy group.

TL;DR: For many years research on socio-economic inequalities in health in Switzerland was based on crosssectional data, which indicated that linkage was less successful for foreign nationals and young adults, and led to the inclusion of additional data sources, including data on immigrants and emigrants and, importantly, the 2000 census.

TL;DR: In regions where malaria is endemic the prevalence of hypohaptoglobinaemia could be as useful an indicator as the parasitic index but would be much easier to establish and to monitor.

TL;DR: The results suggest that simple clinical criteria may be valuable in the selection of febrile patients for antimalarial treatment, because in this geographic area, high fever of short duration and with no other obvious cause that occurs during the rainy season is most likely to be malaria.

TL;DR: High parasite density sometimes associated with fever can no longer be considered as the gold standard in the diagnosis of malaria, and other approaches, such as decision‐making processes involving clinical, biological and ecological variables must be developed, especially in highly endemic areas where Plasmodium infection is the rule rather than the exception.