Browsing by Subject "Malnutrition"

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Double Burden of Malnutrition among Cancer Outpatients in Nairobi, Kenya: Challenges and Opportunities for Action

Opanga, Yvonne; Kaduka, Lydia; Muniu, Erastus; Bukania, Zipporah; Mutisya, Richard; Korir, Ann; Thuita, Veronica; Nyongesa, Catherine; Mwangi, Moses; Mbakaya, Charles (Haraka Publishing Platform, 2/13/2018)

Introduction: the Kenya National Guidelines for Cancer Management identify nutrition care for persons with cancer as an integral part of cancer treatment. However, contribution of nutrition to cancer disease progression ...
Forecasting acute childhood malnutrition in Kenya using machine learning and diverse sets of indicators

Tadesse, Girmaw Abebe; Ferguson, Laura; Robinson, Caleb; Kuria, Shiphrah (PLoS One, 2025-05)

Objectives: Malnutrition is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality for children under-5 globally. Low- and middle-income countries, such as Kenya, bear the greatest burden of malnutrition. The Kenyan government has ...
"Supplying the Surgical Needs of Developing Countries"

Wood, Michael (1977)

Introduction It has been my good fortune over the last 30 years to have connections with some 75 rural hospitals in East Africa and I have been able to visit others in different parts of Africa and the Middle East and ...