ABSTRACT The Heart Disease according to the survey is the leading cause of death all over the world. The health sector has a lot of data, but unfortunately, these data are not well utilized. This is as a result of lack of effective analysis tools to discover salient trends in data. Data Mining can help to retrieve valuable knowledge from available data. It helps to train model to predict patients’ health which will be faster compared to clinical experimentation. A lot of research has been ...
ABSTRACT Background Individuals in endemic areas are susceptibility to malaria. Nevertheless, when women become pregnant mostly for the first time, they become more susceptibility to malaria. It is believed that malaria is the cause of persistent mild to severe anaemia, in spite of the fact that malaria in pregnancy may not be seen as a severe illness. In addition, low birth-weight of infants may be a cause of malaria in pregnancy. This happens when there is an obstruction with the maternal-f...
ABSTRACT Background: Malaria and HIV represent the two most important public health problems of subSaharan Africa due to geographical overlap. Together, they are responsible for more than 4 million deaths a year. However, when HIV and malaria co-infect an individual, they drastically worsen the morbidity outcome for the person, increasing the odds of mortality than as single infections. In Ghana, there is paucity of data on the prevalence of this co-infection. This study determined the preval...
ABSTRACT Introduction Eye injuries are one of the most common work-related injuries among certain occupations, including welders. The aim of this study was to determine factors associated with eye injuries among welders in Accra. Methods This was a descriptive cross-sectional study which was conducted among welders in Accra. Proportionate and systematic sampling was used to select 382 eligible welders from two welding sites in Accra Metropolis. Data was collected using a pretested questio...
ABSTRACT Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease of public health importance, affecting over 10 million people globally in a year. The TB disease is the single largest cause of mortality relative to communicable disease globally. TB treatment success rates have been below the WHO target of at least 85% while defaulter and failure rates have been higher than the national average since 2015 in Central Region. Ghana introduced a nationwide financial incentive known as the enablers’ packag...
ABSTRACT This study was set to investigate social influence on continuation of adopted agricultural technologies in Ukwega and Mtitu wards of Kilolo District, Iringa Region. Specifically the study aimed at identifying innovations currently used after HIMA project, determining whether social influence was responsible for continued use of agricultural technologies and assessing socio-economic characteristics of household influencing adoption and continued use of adopted agricultural technologie...
ABSTRACT Background: Raising awareness of women about obstetric danger signs would improve the early detection of problems and seeking timely obstetric care. This study aimed to determine the association between antenatal attendance and knowledge on obstetric danger signs among postnatal mothers in Zanzibar. Method: It was a community-based cross-section study. A multistage sampling technique was used to select study participants that were postnatal mothers from day 0 up to 42 days. Sample ...
ABSTRACT Background: The prevalence and mortality due to end stage kidney disease (ESKD) are estimated to be high in Sub-Saharan Africa. Effective haemodialysis reduces complications and promotes better outcomes. Achieving haemodialysis adequacy is challenging in haemodialysis management. In Tanzania, little is known on hemodialysis adequacy in patients with ESKD particularly in Dodoma city. Haemodialysis adequacy refers to the dose of dialysis measured enough to uphold an optimal long-term ...
ABSTRACT Family planning is an important aspect of primary health care. In order to improve the efficacy of available contraceptive methods, it is of importance to identify factors influencing women’s choice of contraception. In Kenya, like many other sub-Saharan countries, prevention of unintended pregnancies among HIV positive women as a strategy for PMTCT has been neglected. This has resulted in a large population of HIV positive women who have a substantial degree of unmet need for fam...
ABSTRACT Adolescent pregnancy is an important public health problem on the increase in Nigeria. Few studies have investigated the circumstances and factors associated with parental decisions taken following an adolescent pregnancy, in spite of the implications of these on the adolescent. This study was designed to assess factors influencing parents‟/guardians‟ decisions on adolescent pregnancy. A mixed method study involving the use of Key Informant Interviews (KII) and semi-structure...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of parenting style on their children career choice in Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The sample consisted of two hundred respondents who were conveniently selected from secondary schools within Oye local government in Ekiti State. The instrument used was a questionnaire which was administered to the respondents. Four (4) null hypotheses were formulated and tested. Multinomial logistic regression analysis was u...
Abstract Introduction Chronic respiratory diseases in Tanzania are prevalent and a silent burden to the affected population, and the healthcare system. We aimed to explore the availability of services and level of health facilities readiness to provide management of chronic respiratory diseases and its associated factors. Methods The current study is a secondary analysis of the 2014–2015 Tanzania Service Provision Assessment Survey data. Facilities were considered to have a high readiness ...
ABSTRACT Background: The Competence-Based Education and Training curriculum is a curriculum that emphasizes the complex outcomes of a learning process (knowledge, skills and attitude to be applied by learner). Tanzania adopted and started the implementation of CBET Curriculum among diploma nursing schools since 2008. This study intended to determine the factors influencing nurse students’ perception on implementation of Competence-Based Education and Training curriculum among diploma nursi...
ABSTRACT Studies across Sub-Sahara have established transactional sex as one of the factors contributing to young people's risk of HIV infection. However, there are few studies that have explored the dynamics of transactional sex among young people in Nigeria. The aim of this study was to investigate the extent of, and risk factors associated with transactional sex among female undergraduates of ages 15 - 24 years in urban informal settlements in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The study used a sa...
ABSTRACT Health insurance pools money into a common fund and used for paying for health-care costs of members with a view to sharing risk among the population and avoiding catastrophic health-care expenditure. Motorcycle taxis operators are 30 times more at risk of getting involved in road accident that other road users. As such, victims incur high cost of medical and rehabilitation and more likely to be impoverished. Despite the availability of health insurance schemes, uptake of health insu...