ABSTRACT The prevalence of neonatal jaundice among newborn babies in Eku Baptist Community Hospital in Delta State was studied between January 2007 and May 2013. A total of 2,509 neonatal case folders were reviewed to determine the prevalence, pattern of occurrence, and associated risk factors of neonatal jaundice among the newborn babies aged between 1 and 28 days. Neonatal jaundice accounted for a total prevalence of 52. 6 in 1000 of the total number of cases reviewed. There was significa...
Abstract: Aim: Physical hazards (PHs) in the school environment compromise health of primary school children worldwide. Thus the study investigated the prevalence of physical hazards in public primary schools in South-West Nigeria. Methods: The study was a cross-sectional survey that involved the selection of 456 teachers from 30 selected Public Primary Schools using a 4-stage random sampling technique. Data were collected through an observational checklist and a semi-structured questionnai...
INTRODUCTION Toxins are poisonous substances produced within living cells or organisms and can include various classes of small molecules or proteins that cause disease on contact. The severity and type of diseases caused by toxins can range from minor effects to deadly effects. The organisms which are capable of producing toxins include bacteria, fungi, algae, and plants. Some of the major types of toxins include, but are not limited to, environmental, marine, and microbial toxins. Microbi...
Abstract Food vendors are important in every socio-economic sector in developing countries, providing ready-to-eat food to the populace and in the process, they transmit pathogenic organisms to the food being sold. However, a very important but neglected source of these pathogenic bacteria is the phone handled by the food vendors. This study is aimed to ascertain if the phone handled by the food vendor could be a potential source of dissemination pathogenic bacteria to the vended food bee...
Malnutrition is a global challenge especially in the developing countries. Nigeria is the tenth highest country with under-five mortalities globally and the third highest country with stunted growth among children (43%). In order to reduce the malnutrition rate, the National Strategic Plan of Action for Nutrition (NSPAN) was adopted in 2014. This article critically evaluated three delivery processes that may promote community participation in maternal and, infants, young child feeding nutriti...
ABSTRACT _________________________________________________________ Background: Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is currently a global menace and poses significant risk to persons living in Sub-Saharan Africa. It occurs largely from failure of conventional treatment of tuberculosis. Its emergence further threatens TB control and prevention. Objective: This study was conducted to determine the pattern of intensive-phase treatment outcomes among hospitalized MDR-TB patients in Unive...
This study assessed the prevalence of urinary schistosomiasis and water contact activities as associated risk factor in Wowyen community. A total of 620 subjects comprising of 300 male and 320 female subjects were analyzed. The prevalence was achieved by standard urine filtration technique. One way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and paired t-test was carried out using software SPSS Statistical version 20. The result confirmed an overall (37.91%) prevalence of infection. On the trait of ages, di...
FACTORS INFLUENCING THE OCCURRENCE OF MEDICAL ERROR AMONG RESIDENT DOCTORS AT THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL, IBADAN. Introduction: Medical errors represent a serious public health problem and pose a threat to patient safety. Some factors influence the daily practice on medicine service to patients. In Nigeria, medical error is an imperative cause of patient mortality and morbidity and it has to be addresses by creating a culture of safety in medical practice. Aim: To determine the factor th...
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease that represents a major public health problem (Effi, Aman, Koui, & Koffi, 2016), it is the most common of all cancers and is the leading cause of cancer deaths in women worldwide, a condition that may be predicated upon by lack of knowledge about fundamental regimen necessary for cancer prevention, early detection and unavailability of necessary health requirement (Onwunaka & Umoke, 2015). Immunohistochemistry is now a standard methodology in patho...
Prostate cancer is a heterogeneous disease with regard to molecular alterations and clinical course (Benedettini & Loda 2008).The disparities in the black man calls for concerted research efforts. This term paper explores the trend and occurrence of prostate cancer and prostate cancer research activities in the most populous black nation on earth; it seeks to locate the place of the Nigeria and Nigerian research environment in the global progress on prostate cancer disparities. Literature w...
Men’s View About Female Genital Mutilation: A survey of Knowledge and Attitude of Men towards Female Genital Mutilation in Obi Local Government Area, Nasarawa State, Nigeria Abstract Background: Female genital mutilation has been in practice in many African countries for so many years and has now infiltrated the western world through immigrant to countries such as the United Kingdom, United States of America, Australia, Canada and other European countries, making it a global problem. Severa...
Managing disease outbreaks in Nigeria has been an issue of great difficulty, mostly because; before cases are identified the disease would have spread to an uncontrollable level. incorporating Community Informants into the Integrated Disease Surveillance Systems can be used to strengthen Disease Surveillance and Response and improve community based surveillance. Here we tried to buttress the important role Community Informant plays in Disease surveillance and Response in Nigeria
Stigma and health complications are few of the many challenges people living with HIV/AIDS face, while we continuously discuss Universal health Coverage #UHC and the cadre of beneficiaries, it is of grave importance to put in the front burner the health-being and well-being of People Living with HIV in other to achieve health equality.
ABSTRACT Homelessness among youth in the UK is increasingly disturbing, with an estimated annual increase of 10% of the homeless people. It was revealed that homeless people are more likely to die young, with an average age of death of 47 years. The young adult suffering from it remains the worse hit. Homelessness increases the risk of having mental health problems and encountering barriers to social well-being due to stigmitisation. Factors contributing to the development of homelessness wer...
ABSTRACT Children are at the centre of the HIV epidemic, and the need to prioritize actions to reduce HIV infection among young people has now been globally recognized. Because HIV-infected women co-infected with opportunistic pathogens might be more likely to transmit these infections to their infants than women without HIV infection, this study is being conducted to determine if guidelines for treating opportunistic pathogens among children should consider treatment of congenitall...