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Università della Svizzera italiana

Willingness to vaccinate against Covid-19 : a qualitative study involving older adults from Southern Switzerland

Fadda, Marta ; Suggs, L. Suzanne ; Albanese, Emiliano

In: Vaccine: X, 2021, vol. 8, p. 7

Background: The Covid-19 pandemic is causing unprecedented disruption and suffering to people across the globe, with a disproportionate toll on the elderly. The development and equitable distribution of a vaccine seems to be the most promising and sustainable route ahead. The goal of this study was to explore older adults’ attitudes towards and beliefs regarding the Covid-19 vaccination in...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Sedentary behaviour in Swiss children and adolescents : disentangling associations with the perceived and objectively measured environment

Bringolf-Isler, Bettina ; De Hoogh, Kees ; Schindler, Christian ; Kayser, Bengt ; Suggs, L. Suzanne ; Dössegger, Alain ; Probst-Hensch, Nicole ; The SOPHYA Study Group

In: International journal of environmental research and public health, 2018, vol. 15, no. 5, p. 918

Identifying correlates of sedentary behaviour across all levels of the ecological model and understanding their interrelations is a promising method to plan effective interventions. The present study examined whether the objectively assessed and the perceived neighbourhood are associated with children’s sedentary behaviour time (SBT). A comprehensive set of factors at different levels of...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Food perceptions and dietary changes for chronic condition management in rural Peru : insights for health promotion

Perez-Leon, Silvana ; Pesantes, M. Amalia ; Aya Pastrana, Nathaly ; Raman, Shivani ; Miranda, Jaime ; Suggs, L. Suzanne

In: Nutrients, 2018, vol. 10, no. 11, p. 1563

Peru is undergoing a nutrition transition and, at the country level, it faces a double burden of disease where several different conditions require dietary changes to maintain a healthy life and prevent complications. Through semistructured interviews in rural Peru with people affected by three infectious and noninfectious chronic conditions (type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Collaborating with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers when writing HPV vaccine review articles

Deml, Michael J. ; Dietrich, Léna G. ; Wingeier, Bernhard ; Etter, Gisela ; Gallmann, Caesar ; Berger, Christoph ; Suggs, L. Suzanne ; Huber, Benedikt M. ; Tarr, Philip E.

In: Journal of clinical medicine, 2020, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 15 p

Novel strategies are needed to address vaccine hesitancy (VH), which correlates with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). In Switzerland, CAM providers play important roles in vaccine counseling of vaccine hesitant (VH) parents, and traditional vaccination messaging tends to overlook CAM provider perspectives. In the setting of a Swiss national research program on VH, our key strategy ...

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Social Media for Public Health: An Exploratory Policy Analysis

Fast, Ingrid ; Sørensen, Kristine ; Brand, Helmut ; Suggs, L. Suzanne

In: The European Journal of Public Health, 2015, vol. 25, no. 1, p. 162-166