ABSTRACT Like most other diseases, oral diseases affect all people irrespective of nationality, race, colour and creed. Despite great achievements in the oral health of populations globally, problems still remain in many communities around the world. Dental conservation methods are those methods that can be utilized to maintain good oral health. They can be instituted at both individual and professional levels. Good oral health is an essential and important component of general health. Some ...
ABSTRACT Background: Approximately 2.37 billion people Jive in areas at risk for transmission Of pfalciparum malaria, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa (Hay, et al., 2009). Combination Artemether/Lumefantrine (Coartem, Riamet, and Falcynate-LF) is a fixed dose Artemisininbased combination therapy (ACT) indicated for the treatment of acute uncomplicated Plasmodium Jalciparum malaria. It is an effective and well tolerated treatment providing high cure rates even in areas with multi-drug resistan...
ABSTRACT Health IT is an application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision-making. The advantages of health information technology (IT) in health care includes facilitating communication between health care providers; improving medication safety, tracking, and reporting; and promoting quality of care through optimized access...
ABSTRACT The HIV and AIDS pandemic is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Cure continues to elude researchers and infection leads to death. Since the first case of HIV infection was diagnosed, it is estimated that 33.0 million people today are living with the virus globally. Over twenty five (25) million have already died worldwide and more than 2.5 million people became infected with the virus in 2007. Current estimates indicate that 73 thousand Kenyans died ...
ABSTRACT Effective management of today’s health systems depends on critical use of data and information for the effective policy-making, planning, monitoring of services and making decisions. Following the decentralization of health, the district health management information systems (DHMIS) was established to support the districts in utilizing the generated data for the decisions made in health facility. However, data use has been limited and faced with inadequacy hence vital health decis...
ABSTRACT This research was done to determine the sero-status and frequency of ill health of HIV exposed infants in Ishaka Adventist hospital. it was a cross sectional descriptive study design in which a convenience sampling (opportunity or grab sampling) technique was used in that interviewer administered questionnaires was given to any available respondent who meets the required inclusion criteria at that particular time of day, this was done until a saturation point of 100 respondents is r...
ABSTRACT Every year, four million infants die within their first month of life, representing nearly 40 per-cents of all deaths of children under age 5 globally. In Kenya, neonatal mortality is 31 per 1000 live births with neonates contributing 42% of the under-five mortality while in North Eastern province (which hosts Garissa County the area of study) under-five mortality was 33 per 1000 with neonatal mortality contributing to 60% of infant mortality in the region. Delivery by a skilled bir...
ABSTRACT Optimal feeding of infants depend not solely on what they are fed but also how, when, where and by whom. Inappropriate feeding practices can cause negative consequences on the growth, development and a child’s life or survival in future. Data from a number of countries show that there are lots of efforts to improve child nutrition, but still, there are significant gaps in complementary feeding. In slum areas, there is an indication of little success of complementary feeding practi...
ABSTRACT Deficits in soil moisture and low soil fertility are major constraints to smallholder farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. Farmers in Tharaka-Nithi County, Kenya, have over the decades suffered huge declines in crop yields as a result of continuous cultivation with inadequate replenishments of the lost soil nutrients and lack of appropriate soil water conservation technologies. Experiments were set up at Kigogo primary school, Mukuuni location in Tharaka-Nithi County to determine ...
ABSTRACT More than three decades after the introduction of prosopis species in the drylands of Kenya there is now increasing concern about the negative impacts of the plant on the livelihoods of dryland communities and on the ecological integrity of the fragile arid and semiarid lands. The extent of the species coverage in the arid and semiarid lands has, however, not been fully mapped owing in part to the recent nature of the problem. As such the aim of this study was to map out the extent ...
ABSTRACT Background: Birth Asphyxia is defined by WHO as “the failure to initiate and sustain breathing at birth.” Millions of child deaths and stillbirths are attributable to birth asphyxia, yet limited information is available to high light the burden of the condition to guide policy and practice, particularly at the community level in developing countries like Uganda. This study will compile insight on the prevalence and immediate outcomes of birth asphyxia in pregnant mothers attendin...
ABSTRACT Background Despite the fact that herbal medicines are used by 80% of the World's population (WHO, 2002) and are the main source of health care in the rural communities and the most preferred form of treatment of HIV-related symptoms (Orisatoki and Oguntibeju, 2010), less than 10% of herbal products in the world market are truly standardized to a known active and/or toxic components (Winston et al., 2007). Study carried out in Western Uganda reported 32.8% of same-day use of herbal m...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents AN ASSESMENT OF THE PREVELANCE OF ABORTION IN THE OBSTETRICS&GYNECOLOGY WARD, KAMPALA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL FROM JUNE 2013 TO MAY 2014 ................ 0 TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER ONE ....................................................................................................................................
ABSTRACT Health insurance has been considered as key to achieving universal health care by various countries. This is with the aim of ensuring that every citizen should have access to needed healthcare services that are effective and of acceptable quality and that no one should risk financial ruins as a result of illness. However, recent statistics still indicate that in Kenya, currently 26.6% of total health expenditure is out of pocket. Out-of-pocket spending on healthcare has been found t...
ABSTRACT The importance of health workers to the effective functioning of healthcare systems is widely recognized. Shortages of health workers constitute a significant barrier to achieving healthrelated Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and expanding health interventions in developing countries. In Kenya, internal migration of workers, from rural areas to urban areas, is just as serious a problem as international migration. Shortages in the health workforce are aggravated by the unequal d...