Publications

(2023). The interface between SARS-CoV-2 and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in a high HIV/TB burden district level hospital setting, Cape Town, South Africa. PLoS ONE.

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(2023). Socioeconomic Status Significantly Impacts Childhood Cancer Survival in South Africa. Pediatric Blood and Cancer.

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(2023). Epidemiology and Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Associated with Anti-Nucleocapsid Seropositivity in Cape Town, South Africa. SSRN Scholarly Paper.

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(2023). Multimorbidity patterns in South Africa: A latent class analysis. Front. Public Health.

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(2022). Overview: Second Comparative Risk Assessment for South Africa (SACRA2) highlights need for health promotion and strengthened surveillance. South African Medical Journal.

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(2022). Matching study using health and police datasets for characterising interpersonal violence in the community of Khayelitsha, South Africa 2013–2015. BMJ Open.

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(2022). Estimating the changing disease burden attributable to raised low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012. South African Medical Journal.

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(2022). Estimating the changing disease burden attributable to iron deficiency in South Africa, 2000, 2006 and 2012. South African Medical Journal.

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(2022). Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to unsafe water and lack of sanitation and hygiene in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012. South African Medical Journal.

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(2022). Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012. South African Medical Journal.

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(2022). Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high systolic blood pressure in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012. South African Medical Journal.

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(2022). Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high sodium intake in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012. South African Medical Journal.

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(2022). Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high fasting plasma glucose in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012. South African Medical Journal.

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(2022). Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high body mass index in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012. South African Medical Journal.

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(2022). Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to alcohol use in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012. South African Medical Journal.

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(2022). Estimating the burden of disease attributable to household air pollution from cooking with solid fuels in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012. South African Medical Journal.

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(2022). Estimating the burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution (ambient PM2.5 and ambient ozone) in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012. South African Medical Journal.

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(2022). Estimating the burden of disease attributable to a diet low in fruit and vegetables in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012. South African Medical Journal.

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(2022). Determining antenatal medicine exposures in South African women: a comparison of three methods of ascertainment. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.

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(2022). One in five South Africans are multimorbid: An analysis of the 2016 demographic and health survey. PLOS ONE.

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(2022). Explaining population trends in cardiovascular risk: protocol for a comparative analysis of health transitions in South Africa and England using nationally representative survey data. BMJ Open.

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(2022). Multimorbidity Patterns in a National HIV Survey of South African Youth and Adults. Frontiers in Public Health.

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(2022). Inequity in the Distribution of Non-Communicable Disease Multimorbidity in Adults in South Africa: An Analysis of Prevalence and Patterns. Int J Public Health.

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(2022). Demographic and health trends: 2015-2020. The South African Health Reforms 2015 - 2020: The Road Ahead.

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(2022). Characterization and Comparison of the Divergent Metabolic Consequences of High-Sugar and High-Fat Diets in Male Wistar Rats. Frontiers in Physiology.

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(2021). Sex Cord Stromal Tumors in Children and Adolescents: A First Report by The South African Children’s Cancer Study Group (1990-2015). Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.

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(2021). Prevalence of Anaemia, Iron Deficiency, and Iron Deficiency Anaemia in Women of Reproductive Age and Children under 5 Years of Age in South Africa (1997-2021): A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

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(2021). Malignant extracranial germ cell tumours: A first national report by the South African Children's Cancer Study Group. Pediatric Blood & Cancer.

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(2021). Is South Africa closing the health gaps between districts? Monitoring progress towards universal health service coverage with routine facility data. BMC Health Services Research.

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(2021). Estimating the Burden of Disease from Alcohol Use in South Africa in 2000, 2006, 2012. Preprint.

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(2021). Bayesian modelling of population trends in alcohol consumption provides empirically based country estimates for South Africa. Population Health Metrics.

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(2021). 1485Trends and attributable burden of raised low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in South Africa. International Journal of Epidemiology.

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(2020). Universal Health Coverage – the service coverage index at district level. District Health Barometer 2019/2020.

(2020). Predictors of silicosis and variation in prevalence across mines among employed gold miners in South Africa. BMC Public Health.

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(2020). Overview of universal health coverage and the health-related Sustainable Development Goals.

(2020). Non-communicable diseases.

(2020). Inpatient managment: Hospital beds per 10 000 target population. District Health Barometer 2019/2020.

(2020). Health and related indicators.

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(2020). Blood pressure trajectories during pregnancy and associations with adverse birth outcomes among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women in South Africa: a group-based trajectory modelling approach. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.

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(2019). Association between perinatal depressive symptoms and suicidal risk among low-income South African women: a longitudinal study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.

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(2019). Course of perinatal depressive symptoms among South African women: associations with child outcomes at 18 and 36 months. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.

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(2019). Health and related indicators: interrogating the UHC service coverage index.

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(2019). Favourable Outcomes in Children and Adolescents with Sex Cord Stromal Tumours (1990-2015): A First Report by the South African Children's Cancer Study Group. WILEY 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA.

(2019). Favourable Outcomes for South African Children and Adolescents with Mature and Immature Teratomas (1990-2015): First Report by the South African Children Cancer Study Group. WILEY 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA.

(2019). Favorable Outcomes for Children with Biopsy Proven Malignant Extracranial Germ Cell Tumours 1990-2015: A First National Report by the South African Children's Cancer Study Group (SACCSG). WILEY 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA.

(2018). Antihypertensive Treatment and Blood Pressure Trends among South African Adults: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Analysis of a Population Panel Survey. PLOS ONE.

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(2018). Simultaneous Social Causation and Social Drift: Longitudinal Analysis of Depression and Poverty in South Africa. Journal of Affective Disorders.

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(2017). Understanding blood pressure dynamics in the South African population: a latent variables approach to the analysis and comparison of data from multiple surveys.

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(2016). Self-Reported Side Effects and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV-Infected Pregnant Women under Option B+: A Prospective Study.. PloS one.

(2016). Non Communicable Diseases. District Health Barometer 2015/2016.

(2015). Socioeconomic Status Modifies the Seasonal Effect on Blood Pressure: Findings From a National Panel Study.. Medicine.

(2015). Obesity Trends and Risk Factors in the South African Adult Population. BMC Obesity.

(2014). Analysing the socioeconomic determinants of hypertension in South Africa: a structural equation modelling approach. BMC public health.

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(2014). Ranking District Health System Performance. District Health Barometer 2013/2014.

(2014). Dealing with Multiple Confounders in Observational Studies: Beyond Logistic Regression. Sacema Quarterly.

(2014). Clinical Features of Psoriatic Arthritis in a Cohort of Patients Recruited in a Rheumatology Clinic at Groote Schuur Hospital.

(2013). Problem Drinking as a Risk Factor for Tuberculosis: A Propensity Score Matched Analysis of a National Survey. BMC Public Health.

(2012). Social Determinants and Addictions: From Observation to Intervention (in Italian). Medicina delle Dipendenze.

(2012). Analysing the Socioeconomic Determinants of Hypertension in South Africa: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach.

(2010). Brief Interventions in Preventing Drug and Alcohol Abuse in Rural Areas: A Pilot Study.

(2009). Inside the Black Box: Processes and Active Elements in Residential Treatments (in Italian). Medicina delle Tossicodpendenze.

(2006). The Dual Diagnosis (in Italian). Appunti Sparsi.

(2004). Psychiatric Comorbidity in a High-Threshold Residential Treatment: The Experience of the Associazione Mondo X – Sardegna (in Italian).

(2004). Personality Structure and Residential Treatment Compliance: Which Relationships? (In Italian).

(2004). Parenting, Attachment Style and Personality Disorders in a Sample of Drug Dependent Individuals (in Italian).

(2004). Methodology and Tools for the Multidimensional Evaluation: An Introduction (in Italian). Integrazione Comunicazione Nel Settore Socio-Sanitario: Metodi e Strumenti.

(2002). The Impact of Psychiatric Comorbidity in a Residential Service for Addicted People: Personality and Psychopathologic Characteristics of Patients (in Italian).

(2002). Dual Diagnosis and Therapeutic Community Treatments: Remarks on Retention Predictors (in Italian).

(1999). [Cannabis and Ecstasy: Everybody's Experience?]. L’Ecstasy e Le Altre Droghe.

(1996). Drug Addicts in the Therapeutic Community and Their Families: Two Parallel Journeys? (In Italian). Famiglia e Tossicodipendenza.

(1995). Follow-up Study of 545 Opioid Addicts Admitted to a Residential Community between 1980 and 1992 (in Italian). Bollett. per le farmac. e l’alcool..

(1994). Hiv Infection and Therapeutic Communities: Data From an Experience.