Browsing School of Public Health (Public-Health) by Subject "Uganda"
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Examining the roles of “significant others” and the associated factors in the uptake of health facility delivery in lira district, Uganda.
(2018-11-23)Background: Health facility delivery is one of the interventions being implemented worldwide to improve maternal and new-born health outcomes. Despite Uganda’s remarkable improvement, more effort is needed in Lira District ... -
Exploring the utilisation of research evidence in Uganda's health policy formulation processes: a case if the National Medicines Policy 2015
(2018-12-06)Introduction: Research is a vital tool in formulating health policies aimed at improving service delivery. Policies that utilize research evidence at formulation are likely to be more successful in achieving desired ... -
Factors affecting infection control at health facilities in Kumi district, Uganda.
(2002-07)BACKGROUND: Despite the efforts of Kumi district health team to provide continuous medical education (CME) to the health workers, rehabilitate, equip and provide supplies to the health facilities, infection control (IC) ... -
Factors affecting parent-child communication on issues of sexual and reproductive health, Tororo District, Uganda
(2007)INTRODUCTION: Parent- child communication on issues of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is very important in improving the reproductive health status of a community and is of public concern. In Tororo district, a big ... -
Factors associated with adverse fatal outcomes in Busia District, Uganda : a case control study
(Makerere University, 2022-03-09)Introductions: Access to obstetric care services during pregnancy is an important factor in safeguarding both maternal and fetal outcome. Globally, 7,700 neonatal deaths occur each day as a result of complications during ... -
Factors associated with antenatal care dropout among pregnant women in Tororo district, Uganda
(2007-10)Antenatal care is care that is given to a pregnant woman in order to attain best possible health outcome for her and her baby Antenatal health services help to detect and treat pregnancy related complications which if ... -
Factors Associated with Compliance with Infection Prevention and Control Measures Among Healthcare Workers to minimize the Risk of Covid-19 Infection In Nakawa Division, Kampala, Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-12-09)Background In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that originated in China in December 2019 and spread around the world, Kampala city had witnessed a high number of infections and deaths among healthcare workers ... -
Factors associated with early neonatal mortality among low birth weight babies in Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda.
(Makerere University, 2023-10-18)Introduction: In the Uganda, Low Birth Weight attributes to 15.3% neonatal mortality. Over 85% of all neonatal deaths occur in the first week of life and about 95% of low birth weight neonatal deaths occur in the first ... -
Factors associated with healthcare workers’ adherence to national guidelines for MDR TB surveillance in Uganda: A case study of the West Nile region
(Makerere University, 2014)Background: A previous history of tuberculosis (TB) treatment has been identified as a risk factor for multidrug resistant TB. Therefore these patients are a high priority group for whom culture and drug-susceptibility ... -
Factors associated with parental intention to allow their adolescent girls receive human papilloma virus vaccine in Bwaise II Slum, Kawempe division, Kampala District
(Makerere University, 2022-04-04)Introduction: Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer among women in the world, vast majority occurs in Sub-Saharan Africa and it is the leading cause of cancer mortality among women in Uganda. Although it is ... -
Factors associated with pre-diagnosis loss to follow up among Presumptive Tuberculosis patients in Mukono District, Uganda: a Prospective cohort study
(Makerere University, 2023-11-22)Background: A significant proportion of incident tuberculosis (TB) cases in Uganda are not notified. Some of the missing cases are patients who are identified as presumptive TB patients at health facilities but drop out ... -
Factors associated with prevention of malaria and other diseases transmitted by mosquitoes at household level in Wakiso District, Uganda
(Journal of Environmental Health Research, 2013)Malaria, and other diseases transmitted by mosquito vectors, can be reduced by appropriate measures at household level. These include: installing screening in windows and ventilators; removing stagnant water around homes; ... -
Factors associated with stock-outs of antiretroviral medicines in West Nile region, Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023)Background: In Uganda, despite the reduced costs of medications and increased support from the Ministry of Health and partners such as the Global Fund and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), stock-outs ... -
Factors associated with tobacco use among commercial motorcyclists in Arua Municipality, Arua District, Uganda
(Makerere University, 2015-08)Tobacco use is a public health threat that contributes to global burden of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs). The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that approximately one person dies every six seconds due to tobacco ... -
Factors associated with vertical transmission of HIV during the PMTCT B-plus era in Kyegegwa District: A cross-sectional study
(Makerere University, 2019-09)Background: Despite high antiretroviral therapy coverage (93%) for PMTCT, the vertical transmission rate in Uganda is still high (7.4%). We examined the factors associated with vertical transmission of HIV during implementation ... -
Factors associated with willingness to receive the COVID-19 vaccine among residents of Hoima District, Mid-western Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023-01)Background: The development and use of COVID-19 vaccine has been a global target to effectively control the pandemic. Since March 2021, Uganda has been publicizing and implementing COVID-19 vaccination. However, little is ... -
Factors contributing to persistent stock outs of essential medicines and healh supplies at lower level health facilities in Wakiso District.
(2009-06)BACKGROUND: Despite progress in increasing the number of people with access to essential medicines and health supplies (EMHS) over the past decades, vulnerable populations still lack access to them and the situation seems ... -
Factors influencing implementation of infection control measures in health units in Arua district, uganda.
(2009-06)BACKGROUND: According to the yellow star program, less than 60% of the health units in Arua district, Uganda, were adequately observing infection control measures inspite of the presence of guidelines on how to do ... -
Factors influencing the use of personal protective equipment by employees of Kinyara Sugar Limited Masindi District, Uganda
(2011-11)Introduction Workers in every workplace are faced with several health hazards. To reduce the effect of hazards, personal protective equipments are provided to employees though as the last line of defense. Objectives The ... -
Feasibility and effectiveness of peer supervision on paediatric fever treatment among registered private drug sellers in east-central Uganda
(Makerere University, 2021-04-19)Background: In sub-Saharan Africa, pneumonia, malaria and diarrhoea together account for about 60% of under-5 mortality within the age group 1-59 months. In Uganda, 59% of children less than five years of age with febrile ...