School of Health Sciences & School of Nursing: Recent submissions
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Factors associated with severe human Rift Valley fever in Sangailu, Garissa County, Kenya
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Mosquito-borne Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) causes acute, often severe, disease in livestock and humans. To determine the exposure factors and range of symptoms associated with human RVF, we performed a population-based ... -
Factors Influencing Continuing Professional Development for Nurses in Western Kenya
(Kenyan Journal of Nursing & Midwifery, 2018)Introduction: Nursing practice takes place in a context of ongoing advances in research and technology hence, basic nursing education alone is no longer sufficient for a lifetime nursing career. However, participation in ... -
Association of symptoms and severity of rift valley fever with genetic polymorphisms in human innate immune pathways
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Multiple recent outbreaks of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in Africa, Madagascar, and the Arabian Peninsula have resulted in significant morbidity, mortality, and financial loss due to related livestock epizootics. Presentation ... -
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Age-Stratified Profiles of Serum IL-6, IL-10, and TNF- a Cytokines among Kenyan Children with Schistosoma haematobium , Plasmodium falciparum , and Other Chronic Parasitic Co-infections
(The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2015)In a study of children having polyparasitic infections in a Schistosoma haematobium–endemic area, we examined the hypothesis that S. haematobium–positive children, compared with S. haematobium–negative children (anti- soluble ... -
Parasitism in children aged three years and under: relationship between infection and growth in rural coastal Kenya
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Parasitic infections, which are among the most common infections worldwide, dispropor-tionately affect children; however, little is known about the impact of parasitic disease on growth in very early childhood. Our objective ... -
Case – Control Study of Post treatment Regression of Urinary Tract Morbidity Among Adults in Schistosoma haematobium – endemic Communities in Kwale County, Kenya
(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2015)Previous population-based studies have examined treatment impact on Schistosoma-associated urinary tract disease among children, but much less is known about longer-term treatment benefits for affected adult populations ... -
Prevalence of H. Pylori in Tonsillar Tissue of Patients with Chronic Recurrent Tonsillitis Using Rapid Urease Test in a Tertiary Referral Hospital in Sub Saharan Africa
(Springer India, 2015)There has been conflicting results regarding the presence of H. pylori in tonsillar tissue. Our objective was to analyze for the presence of H. pylori in tonsillar tissue in patients undergoing tonsillectomy for chronic ... -
Productivity changes in Benin Zone ho spitals: a non - parametric Malmquist approach
(University of Nairobi Press, 2015)To date no study in Benin has attempted to determine whether there has been productivity growth in the hospital sector as a result of the various health sector reforms undertaken in the recent ... -
An assessment of participatory integrated vector management for malaria control in Kenya
(National Institute of Environmental Health Science, 2015)The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends integrated vector management (IVM) as a strategy to improve and sustain malaria vector control. However, this approach has not been widely adopted.We comprehensively assessed ... -
Anemia among children exposed to polyparasitism in coastal Kenya
(The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2015)Anemia represents a substantial problem for children living in areas with limited resources and significant parasite burden. We performed a cross-sectional study of 254 Kenyan preschool- and early school-age children in ... -
National health research systems in the WHO African Region: current status and the way forward
(BioMed Central, 2015)A number of resolutions of the World Health Assembly and the WHO Regional Committee for Africa call upon African countries and their development partners to make the required investments in national health research systems ... -
National health research system in Malawi: dead, moribund, tepid or flourishing?
(BioMed Central, 2015)several instruments at both the global and regional levels to which countries in the WHO African Region are party call for action by governments to strengthen national health research systems (NHRS). This paper debates the ... -
Indirect costs associated with deaths from the Ebola virus disease in West Africa
(BioMed Central, 2015)By 28 June 2015, there were a total of 11,234 deaths from the Ebola virus disease (EVD) in five West African countries (Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria and Sierra Leone). The objective of this study was to estimate the ... -
Counting the cost of child mortality in the World Health Organization African region
(BioMed Central, 2015)Worldwide, a total of 6.282 million deaths occurred among children aged less than 5 years in 2013. About 47.4 % of those were borne by the 47 Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region. Sadly, even ... -
Readiness of ethics review systems for a changing public health landscape in the WHO African Region
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: The increasing emphasis on research, development and innovation for health in providing solutions to the high burden of diseases in the African Region has warranted a proliferation of studies including clinical ... -
Socio-demographic characteristics influencing uptake of screening for cervical cancer in women aged 18-49 years in Imenti north sub-county, Meru County, Kenya
(Science Publishing Group, 2016)Cervical cancer continues to kill approximately 274 ,883 women globally every year, despite robust programs for the prevention and control of the disease. Kenya has an uptake of cervical cancer screening (3.2%) compared ... -
Does User Fee Removal Policy Provide Financial Protection from Catastrophic Health Care Payments? Evidence from Zambia
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Out-of-pocket payments in health care have been shown to impose significant burden on households in Sub-Saharan Africa, leading to constrained access to health care and impoverishment. In an effort to reduce the financial ... -
Contrasting patterns of serologic and functional antibody dynamics to Plasmodium falciparum antigens in a Kenyan birth cohort
(American Society for Microbiology, 2016)IgG antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) are transferred from the maternal to fetal circulation during pregnancy, wane after birth, and are subsequ ently acquired in response to natural infection. We examined the ... -
Productivity and Efficiency Changes in Referral Hospitals in Uganda: An Application of Malmquist Total Productivity Index
(Research Gates, 2016)Background: Strengthening health institutions increases the productivity of health spending. Institutions like hospitals which use a large proportion of the health budget are natural targets for productivity improvements, ... -
Does user fee removal policy provide financial protection from catastrophic health care payments? Evidence from Zambia
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Out-of-pocket payments in health care have been shown to impose significant burden on households in Sub-Saharan Africa, leading to constrained access to health care and impoverishment. In an effort to reduce the financial ...