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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...