Kabengele Mpinga Emmanuel

University of Geneva | UNIGE · Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine

Background Malnutrition in hospitalized patients is becoming a priority during the patient care process due to its implications for worsening health outcomes. It can be the result of numerous social factors beyond clinical ones. This study aimed to evaluate the link between these various risk factors considered social determinants of health, food s...

(1) Background: Prevalence studies on hospital malnutrition are still scarce in the Middle East region despite recent global recognition of clinical malnutrition as a healthcare priority. The aim of this study is to measure the prevalence of malnutrition in adult hospitalized patients in Lebanon using the newly developed Global Leadership Initiativ...

Citation: Kagoné, M.; Mpinga, E.K.; Dupuis, M.; Moussa-Pham, M.-S.A.; Srour, M.L.; Grema, M.S.M.; Zacharie, N.-B.; Baratti-Mayer, D. Noma: Experiences of Survivors, Opinion Leaders and Healthcare Professionals in Burkina Faso. Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2022, 7, 142. https://doi. Abstract: The scientific literature on noma (Cancrum Oris) has clearly i...

Background: While noma affects hundreds of thousands of children every year, taking their lives, disfiguring them and leaving them permanently disabled, the economic and social costs of the disease have not been previously estimated. An understanding of the nature and levels of these costs is much needed to formulate and implement strategies for t...

For almost three decades, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has experienced cycles of armed conflict, particularly in the east. During these conflicts, systematic rape has been used as a weapon of war to break women and communities. Knowledge produced about this phenomenon to date relates to the epidemiology, aetiology and the consequences of...

Noma is a rapidly progressing infection of the oral cavity, mostly affecting children aged between 2 and 5 years. If untreated, mortality can reach 90% within a few weeks after the onset of symptoms. Most of the published literature on noma are case reports or case series from Africa. Studies including noma survivors in Asia are limited. We present...

Aim: Our systematic review seeks to understand the linkages and reciprocal relationships between the artificial intelligence (AI) and human rights (HRs) and to unveil the signs of emergence of a new discipline at the crossroads of these two disciplines. Background: AI and HRs have evolved in parallel as two fields, with AI technology engineers ev...

Background The Republic of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa has a high HIV/AIDS disease burden and has experienced political instability in the recent past. Our study used qualitative methods to better understand key stakeholders’ perceptions of the effects of chronic political instability on the HIV/AIDS response in Guinea-Bissau from 2000 to 2015 and...

The theme of the 8th edition of the Geneva Health Forum (GHF) was Improving access to health: learning from the field. While 'the field' often denotes people , patients, communities, and healthcare workers, we challenge the notion and its usage. A group of like-minded conference participants set up a working group to examine the term 'the field' an...

Guinea-Bissau suffers from political instability and an unusually high HIV/AIDS burden compared to other countries in the West Africa region. We conducted a systematic review on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Guinea-Bissau during the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) period (2000–2015), which dovetailed with a period of chronic political instability in...

Background: Human Papillomavirus is a common sexually transmitted infection, representing the main cause of genital warts and cervical cancer. The objective of this study was to evaluate basic knowledge and beliefs regarding HPV infection and HPV vaccine among undergraduate healthcare men and women students, as well as their attitudes towards HPV v...

Background: This study aims to evaluate the status of measles vaccination among employees working for a multinational company. It also assesses the effectiveness of an on-site prevention campaign. In keeping with the guidelines of the World Health Organization regarding measles awareness, the Federal Office of Public Health in Switzerland aims to e...

Alors que l’Afrique connaît depuis les indépendances des conflits armés de manière permanente, l’empreinte et les effets de ces violences sont rarement étudiés dans les travaux portant sur les dynamiques de la recherche scientifique sur le continent. La présente contribution s’intéresse au rôle et à l’impact des conflits armés comme un lieu d’obser...

Background: The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program for young girls aged 11⁻26 years was introduced in Switzerland in 2008. The objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of high- and low-risk HPV in a population of undergraduate students using self-sampling for monitoring the HPV vaccination program's effect. Methods: Unde...

Education and training in human rights has been set as a priority by the United Nations. Health and human rights are closely related. Training professionals from various backgrounds in human rights might ultimately contribute to improve the health of individuals and communities. We present the 5 years’ experience with a 3-week residential Global He...

Background: In most cases, the work of medical doctors, be they general practitioners or specialists, involves some dimension of health promotion (HP). There is thus ample justification for increasing the awareness of medical students vis-à-vis HP and its relevance for their future practice. Methods: In the context of a major curriculum reform (pro...

The World Health Organization has recognized the shortage of competent public health workforce as a major problem worldwide and claimed an urgent need for action. Training public health personnel, effective in an educational perspective, yet with public health relevance in mind, remains a challenge for university-based programs. We present evaluati...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a large part of the population now lives in a context of extreme poverty and suffers from serious health problems. Deprived of social protection, these people see themselves therefore in the financial inability to acc...

Background: Global efforts to end female genital mutilation (FGM) have intensified in recent decades because of the rising awareness that such a practice is an act of extreme violence against women and girls. Articles on FGM have been published highlighting the combined efforts of international and non-governmental organizations, governments, as we...

We conducted a systematic review of the scientific literature between 1996 and 2013 on rape in war-ridden Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in order to better understand the interest of the scientific community in describing the magnitude and characteristics of the problem. The literature search was conducted in French and English using se...

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Due to its nature, extent and consequences, torture is considered a major public health problem and a serious violation of human rights. Our study aims to set the foundation for a theoretical framework of the costs related to torture. It examines existing challenges and proposes some solutions. Our proposed framework targets policy makers, human ri...

Shortage of a competent public health workforce is as a worldwide problem. The situation is especially bad in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2008, the World Health Organization and the Global Health Workforce Alliance launched a call for proposals for a public health training programme with an emphasis on health workforce development specifically targeting...

International Health Electives performed in developing countries by students of medical and nursing schools from industrialized nations have recently become a highly valued element in curricula of medical and nursing schools. We report here four examples of such electives developed over the years at the Faculties of medicine of Geneva and Lausanne,...

Aims: Our study is aimed at determining the risk factors of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) in Mbuji Mayi, Eastern Kasai Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Study Design: We used a case-control design with a ratio of 2 controls for every HAT case. Place and Duration of Study: Our multidisciplinary research team collected primary data on...

The Child and youth health service of the Canton of Geneva is an important actor in support of abused children attending school. Incidence of child abuse is stable at around 3.5 per 1,000 school children. Physical, psychological abuse and neglect are the types most frequently encountered. The main risk factors for abuse are precarious socio-economi...

Despite the recent interest in health rights litigation, there has not yet been a study specifically addressing and comparing the justiciability of the right to health in two diverse contexts such as South Africa and Switzerland from the point of view of determining whether the essential components of the right to health under international law hav...

Torture is an important social and political problem worldwide that affects millions of people. Many host countries give victims of torture the status of refugee and take care of them as far as basic needs; health care, professional reinsertion, and education. Little is known about the costs of torture. However, this knowledge could serve as an add...

Colonialism has established a conventional health care system (CHCS) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and has fought against preexisting indigenous healing strategies. Paradoxically, post-independence governments have initially continued to exclusively cater to the needs of the CHCS despite its widely recognized ineffectiveness in achi...

Background: The complex nature of the right to health requires multiple indicators to cover all facets. Patient satisfaction (PS) has been proposed as a possible indicator, but no survey has explored the implementation of this indicator and its utility in promoting the right to health. Objectives: The aim of the present work is to demonstrate the u...

Abstract: Background: The complex nature of the right to health requires multiple indicators to cover all facets. Patient satisfaction (PS) has been proposed as a possible indicator, but no survey has explored the implementation of this indicator and its utility in promoting the right to health. Objectives: The aim of the present work is to demonst...

Mortality data are often unavailable, incomplete, and difficult to access for research and other purposes. Gaps in mortality data reports, particularly those detailing place of death, deprive healthcare professionals, decision-makers, and many others of the information that is needed to plan, implement, and evaluate interventions designed for pu...

Little has been done to investigate and promote the importance of non-conventional medicines (NCMs) in the realization of the right to health, yet all over the world people regularly resort to NCMs to secure healing or to prevent or mitigate the occurrence of a wide range of morbidities. This study aims to elucidate the theoretical framework of the...

Significant changes in medical education have occurred in recent decades because of new challenges in the health sector and new learning theories and practices. This might have contributed to the decision of medical schools throughout the world to adopt community-based learning activities. The community-based learning approach has been promoted and...

Over the past decades there have been many new developments in medical education due to new public health challenges and to new learning theories. Medical schools throughout the world have adapted to these challenges in adopting communitybased learning activities, an approach that the World Health Organization has promoted. The aim of the present a...

Aims: This paper reports on the attitudes and perceptions of risks associated with the use of morphine for analgesia among nursing students and explores the relationship between those attitudes and perceptions and sociodemographic data. Background: Attitudes and perception of risks regarding the use of morphine for analgesia amongst nurses remain p...

Background: Training health professionals in the field of human rights has long been advocated by the United Nations. Over the past decade some medical schools have introduced health and human rights courses, yet by far not all. This paper describes the objectives and the content of the Health and Human Rights program developed at the Faculty of Me...

In the literature the need for relevance in medical education and training has been stressed. In the last 40 years medical schools have been challenged to train doctors competent to respond to community health needs. In the mid-90s the University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine introduced an integrated medical curriculum. In this initiative a particu...

The creation and operation of private health care businesses (PHCBs) has been increasingly recognized and encouraged. This is particularly valid in many African health care systems that have proved incapable of adequately meeting the health care needs of their populations. However, little is known on the patterns of variation of these PHCBs in term...

In 2006, WHO alerted the world to a global health workforce crisis, demonstrated through critical shortages of health workers, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa (WHO in World Health Report, 2006). The objective of our study was to assess, in a participative way, the educational needs for public health and health workforce development among potential...

Over the past decades, the health and human rights movement has become a public health actor that cannot and should not be ignored when defining public health policies. Little has been published about the scientific contribution of the movement, be it in terms of volume, topics, content, diffusion channels, production, or target sites. This article...

The health and human rights movement (HHR) shows obvious signs of maturation both internally and externally. Yet there are still many questions to be addressed. These issues include the movement's epistemological status and its perspectives of development. This paper discusses critically the conditions of emergence of HHR, its identity, its dominan...

The concept of patient satisfaction has a long history of controversy and debate. Yet it remains a topic ofscientific investigation. Little is known about its importance as a tool for monitoring the right to health. Anon-exhaustive review of scientific articles reported in Medline was done in order to better understand howpatient satisfaction can b...

L’efficacité et la pertinence d’une formation dépendent de manière importante de sa capacité à identifier et répondre aux problèmes prioritaires du domaine concerné et de former des profes-sionnels à des compétences spécifiques. La participation des populations cibles au processus d’identification et de priorisation des problèmes qu’elles rencontre...

The purpose of this study was to assess the need of healthcare and non-healthcare professionals for training in the field of health and human rights as a basis for developing relevant education programs. In 2007 a self-administered survey questionnaire was sent to 360 health professionals and human rights activists in Chad, the Democratic Republic...

Right to health indicators have been subject to debate. Indeed, inadequate monitoring or reporting by states, missing or contradicting data as well as a lack of consensus on what is an appropriate right to health indicator call for new approaches and new ideas in this field. One right to health indicator might be patient satisfaction, a widely coll...

Morphinofobia among the general population (GP) and among health care professionals (HP) is not without danger for the patients: it may lead to the inappropriate management of debilitating pain. The aim of our study was to explore among GP and HP the representation and attitudes concerning the use of morphine in health care. A cross-sectional study...

Context Opiophobia in health care professionals is not without danger for patients: it may lead to the inappropriate management of debilitating pain. Objectives To describe and compare how nurses and physicians perceive morphine, and their attitudes to prescribing and administering it. Methods A cross-sectional study of physicians and nurses in Bei...

The importance of human rights education has widely been recognized as one of the strategies for their protection and promotion of health. Yet training programs have not always taken into account neither local needs, nor public health relevance, nor pedagogical efficacy.The objectives of our study were to assess, in a participative way, educational...

Afro Study. The file contains the questionnaire addressed to health professionals and human rights activists.

Are conflicts to an organization what pain is to an organism? To explore the similarities and the differences between pain and conflicts in palliative care settings, and to better understand the potential importance of conflicts in end of life quality of care. Comparative and reflective methods focusing on how conflicts and pain are taken care of i...

Contexte: L'opiophobie de certains professionnels de santé n'est pas anodine: elle peut entraîner une prise en charge inappropriée des patients présentant des douleurs invalidantes. Objectifs: Cette étude avait pour objectifs de comparer l'opiophobie entre médecins et infirmières d'une part ; et d'autre part de décrire les représentations que ces p...

Are conflicts to an organization what pain is to an organism? OBJECTIVES: To explore the similarities and the differences between pain and conflicts in palliative care settings, and to better understand the potential importance of conflicts in end of life quality of care. METHODS: Comparative and reflective methods focusing on how conflicts and pai...

The World Health Organization considers training in palliative care for healthcare professionals a priority. Indeed, increased life expectancy and a high prevalence of chronic and incurable diseases further emphasise the need for well-trained healthcare professionals in palliative care. The European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) shares the...

To evaluate the extent and the quality of the research related to End of life conflicts in palliative care from 1995 to 2004. Accessible Literature of several electronic data bases (BDSP, Cinhal, Cochrane, Francis, Medline, Psychinfo, Saphir, Scopus and Web of science) as well as the grey literature. Studies published in French and English between...

The aim of the study was to identify the perception health professionals in palliative care had of end of life conflicts. The nature of t he conflicts,their prevalence, intensity, causes andeffects were specially addressed. Furthermore proposals of possible solutions of conflicts were investigated. A cross-sectional study was done through a self-ad...

End of life conflicts in palliative care : a systematic review of the literature To evaluate the extent and the quality of the research related to End of life conflicts in palliative care from 1995 to 2004. Accessible Literature of several electronic data bases (BDSP, Cinhal, Cochrane, Francis, Medline, PsychInfo, Saphir, Scopus and Web of science)...

End of life conflicts in a palliative care setting : Perceptions of health professionals in the French Speaking Valais The aim of the study was to identify the perception health professionals in palliative care had of end of life conflicts. The nature of the conflicts, their prevalence, intensity, causes and effects were specially addressed. Furthe...

The aim of the study was to identify the perception health professionals in palliative care had of end of life conflicts. The nature of t he conflicts,their prevalence, intensity, causes andeffects were specially addressed. Furthermore proposals of possible solutions of conflicts were investigated. A cross-sectional study was done through a self-ad...

The interest of medical students from 46 countries for human rights issues and training was investigated in a cross sectional study. Training in human rights is demanded by 85,4% of respondents. Nearly 55% consider that such training should be compulsory. Nearly 85% of students consider as specific tasks of a medical practitioner "to prevent active...

Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Places of Death: an Agenda for the 21(st) Century. Held in Sion, Switzerland, November 1 and 2, 2005, at the Institut Universitaire Kurt Bosch, with the support of Geneva University, WHO, and the Swiss Medical Academy.

A self-administered questionnaire served as the basis for a study carried out between February and June 2003 covering a panel of 125 experts from 33 countries spread over 5 continents. The objective of this study was to identify the human rights problems perceived as having a very negative health impact from approximately fifty proposals. This stud...

Summary : A self-administered questionnaire served as the basis for a study carried out between February and June 2003 covering a panel of 125 experts from 33 countries spread over 5 continents. The objective of this study was to identify the human rights problems perceived as having a very negative health impact from approximately fifty proposals....

To describe the perception of "Good death" among health personnel working in nursing homes in French-speaking Switzerland and to identify the differential explanatory factors. A cross sectional study with a self-administered questionnaire, adapted from the "the' new measure of concept of good death", was done among health personnel in 5 nursing hom...

The “Good death” : Health personnel perception in French-Speaking Switzerland Aims To describe the perception of “Good death“ among health personnel working in nursing homes in French-speaking Switzerland and to identify the differential explanatory factors. Methods A cross sectional study with a self-administered questionnaire, adapted from the “t...