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A main division of a book that contains a chapter or chapters of Amref International University's research work. This chapter(s) inclusion may extend to research work done by Amref Health Africa -
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This collection contains books of Amref International University's research work. Books may extend to research work done by Amref Health Africa
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Influence of mHealth SMS utilization on adolescents’ attitude towards risky sexual behavior in Homa-Bay County, Kenya
(CEDRED Publications, 2023-11)Abstract Risky Sexual Behaviors (RSB) refers to behaviors leading to unintended pregnancies and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). Adolescents’ Risky Sexual Behavior (RSB) is a global public health concern. In ... -
Chapter 16 Socio-Demographic Determinants Of Risky Sexual Behavior Among Adolescents: A Case Study Of Homa-Bay County, Ken
(CEDRED Publications, 2022-11)Abstract Over the past decade, prevalence of risky sexual behavior among adolescent 15-19 years has been on upward trajectory. Globally, more than a half of adolescents engage in risky sexual behaviour. Sub-Saharan ... -
Community-Based Study on the Influence of Parent Characteristics on Risky Sexual Behaviours among Adolescents 15-19 Years in Homa-Bay County, Kenya
(CEDRED Publications, 2021-09-09)Abstract Health facility factors have been highly associated with the uptake of health servicer not only among adolescents but also to the general population at large. Nevertheless, because of special sexual and ... -
Chapter 9 Health-Facility Characteristics Influencing the Uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services among Adolescents 15-19 years: A Case-Study of Homa-Bay County, Kenya
(The Centre for Democracy, Research and Development CEDRED Nairobi, Kenya, 2020-10)Health facility factors have been highly associated with the uptake of health servicer not only among adolescents but also to the general population at large. Nevertheless, because of special sexual and reproductive needs ... -
Street Food Vendors Morbidity Burden
(LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2013-11-21)Street food vendors play an important role in food security. They feed the larger urban populace with nutritious, cheap, easily accessible and ready to eat foods. Much as we applaud all these benefits; they are potentially ... -
Disaster Management: The Kenyan Perspective
(LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012-12-19)Over the past few years, disasters have increased in their frequency and intensity at an exponential speed. The damages caused by disasters cannot be over emphasised; they include loss of life, human suffering, economic ... -
Internally Displaced People and Mental Health Issues
(Notion Press, 2021-01-01)Reports from many parts of the world have shown an increase in mental health burden across all ages. The impacts of mental health on global development goals have led to mental health inclusion in the Sustainable Development ... -
WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE PROJECT (WASH)
(AMREF Health Africa, 2021)mref Health Africa under Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) project, seeks to increase access to sustainable, safe and adequate water, appropriate sanitation and Hygiene. Amref is therefore trying to reduce prevalence ... -
Emerging Trends in Socio-Demographic Characteristics and their Relationship to Economic Development in Nairobi
(LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2015-04-29)An intricate relationship exists between economic development and maternal health. The performance of bilateral tubal ligation (BTL) marks the end to risks associated with pregnancy and maternal mortality, an indicator of ... -
Corporate Sector Social Responsibility for Reproductive Health
(LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2015-10-13)There is great benefit when public, corporate and civil society sectors work together to improve wellbeing of communities. This ideal is however fraught with myriads of challenges including suspicion and poor knowledge of ... -
Universal Health Coverage
(Springer, Cham, 2020-12-17)Universal health coverage (UHC) aims at providing quality health services for all people in a society without suffering financial hardship. UHC embodies three related objectives: (1) equity in access to health services, ... -
Variability in the Metabolism of Proguanil to the Active Metabolite Cycloguanil in Healthy Kenyan Adults
(Oxford University Press, 1990-08-01)Extensive metabolizers (EM) and poor metabolizers (PM) of the malaria chemoprophylactic drug proguanil have been identified by measuring the proguanil/cycloguanil ratio in urine following a single dose of the pro-drug. The ... -
Chapter 1: Barriers to Behaviour Change as a Response to STD Including HIV/AIDS: The East African Experience
(Resistances to Behavioural Change to Reduce HIV/AIDS Infection, 1999)This chapter is based on a regional project being implemented in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia by the African Medical Research Foundation. The project, which targets young people aged 10-25 years, is a five-year ... -
Chapter 37. Training Teachers for Health Workers
(1980)To develop health services so that they cover a greater proportion of the world 's population we need more health workers, and to train more health workers appropriately we need more teachers. Health workers of all kinds ... -
Occupational Health Services in Smaller Work Places in Britain
(1957)PERHAPS the greatest problem in the planning and running of an occupational health service on a national basis is how to meet the health needs of the smaller work places. A small work place may be defined for our purposes ...
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