ABSTRACT Introduction: Postpartum hemorrhage is the most common leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide and most of the death is in developing countries including Ethiopia. Globally, it is responsible for more than 25% of all maternal death and this proportion is higher in sub-Saharan African countries like Uganda (WHO, 2007). Postpartum hemorrhage can be minimized and prevented by application of a protocol known as active management of third stage of labor. Proportion of deliveries ass...
ABSTRACT Introduction: Globally, HIV continues to be a major global public health issue. The vast majority of people living with HIV are located in low- and middle- income countries, with an estimated 66% living in sub-Saharan Africa. Among this group 19.6 million are living in East and Southern Africa which saw 800,000 new HIV infections in 2017. There has been a gradual increase in the number of people living with HIV accessing treatment. In 2013, Uganda reached a tipping point whereby the ...
ABSTRACT Back ground: Burn injuries are a global public health problem, accounting for an estimated 195 000 deaths annually. The majority of these occur in low- and middle-income countries and the rate of child deaths from burns is currently over seven times higher in low- and middle income countries than in high-income countries. Burn injuries are largely considered as being preventable. However, one needs to know the patterns, causes and outcomes of burn injuries if intervention measures ...
ABSTRACT Background: Rhesus incompatibility occurs when a rhesus negative woman is carrying a rhesus positive foetus, the first pregnancy is normally spared, unless the mother is injected with Anti D,the subsequent pregnancies will have complications resulting to kernicterus, erythroblastosis fetalis or hydrops fetalis, in other words the foetus will not survive to term or will die shortly after birth).The objectives were: Assessing knowledge, attitude and practices of Rhesus incompatibility ...
ABSTRACT Introduction: Nosocomial or those infections acquired in a hospital setting are a great cause of morbidity in our patients due to their easy transmissibility from a patient to another at times through the health care provider who does not practice appropriate infection control. Of more importance is the fact that, other than their prevalence going up, resistance to antibiotics has developed within the causative agents of these infections. Medical students, like other health staff, ar...
ABSTRACT Introduction: Despite efforts to reduce the morbidity and mortality that results from COPD through anti-smoking campaigns and other measures, the prevalence of COPD has been noted to be still high, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Another worrying trend is the increase in COPD prevalence in females and people of younger ages as was previously the case. So many factors can be attributed to this and the researchers set out to find out the prevalence and factors associated with COPD at...
ABSTRACT Ideally health care workers are supposed to work in a safe environment. However; worldwide, health care workers operate in an environment that is considered to be one of the most hazardous occupational settings, (Adib-Hajbaghery & Lotfi, 2013). The purpose of the study is to asses factors leading to high rates of occupational hazards among health workers at Jinja Regional Referral hospital. The study used a descriptive cross sectional design employing quantitative methods of data col...
ABSTRACT Background: Breastfeeding is a key tool for nourishing a baby, preventing childhood illnesses like obesity, and hypertension later on in life. In addition, it reduces the cost to the family and the entire country. Uganda to some extent faces a great deal of challenges, particularly in the health sector. Appropriate practices that support exclusive breastfeeding in the 1st six months will cause a major impact on reduction of childhood morbidity and mortality in the young and continued...
ABSTRACT Malaria in pregnancy is still a major global, public and reproductive health problem. The pregnant woman is more predisposed to malaria and suffers more adverse consequences compared to the general population. The prevalence of malaria, both in the general population and pregnant women, is still unacceptably high more so in the LMICs of sub-Saharan Africa. The prevalence of malaria in Uganda is high with those more affected being pregnant women and children below the age of five year...
ABSTRACT Puerperal sepsis, defined as infection of the genital tract occurring at any time between the rupture of membranes or the onset of labour, and the 42nd day postpartum is still a major contributor to maternal morbidity and mortality. Despite diagnosis, medical management and antimicrobial therapy for sepsis having significantly advanced, puerperal sepsis remains an important cause of maternal mortality accounting for 10.7% of all maternal deaths annually worldwide. In developing ...
ABSTRACT Background Malaria is an enormous global health problem affecting 300-500 million people annually. In Uganda there is stable Malaria prevalence of 95% in the country (Namusoke and Fatuma et al 2005), Malaria in pregnancy has important consequences for mother and baby. Coverage with the World Health Organization–recommended prevention strategy for pregnant women in subSaharan Africa of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) and insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) is low (...
ABSTRACT Malaria is among the top causes of morbidity and mortality in sub-Sahara Africa. It has high prevalence and case fatality rates especially the most vulnerable groups; pregnant women and children below the age of five years. Despite efforts put up in the fight against malaria, prevalence is still high especially in Uganda where the prevalence is as high as 19%, with regional variations of course. Bushenyi has been on record as to have high malaria prevalence rates and data on factors ...
ABSTRACT Background The issue of healthy eating or feeding has long been an important concern to individuals and communities. Feeding is the process of taking in food by an organism to provide them with nutritional needs necessary for growth and energy Objective To assess the factors contributing to poor feeding pattern among children under five years admitted in pediatric ward Lira Regional Referral Hospital Methods The study was a descriptive cross-sectional study in which both quantitative...
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ABSTRACT A retrospective study was carried out. Carried out in Kitagata hospital in Bushenyi district October 2013. The study’s main objective as assessment of morbidity pattern of post natal clinic in Kitagata hospital. A total of 100 respondents reports/records were randomly chosen from already existing records, analyzed manually in excel and calculators and presented in tables and figures. The researcher concluded that despite most mothers attend post natal clinic but they still have pos...