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Access to improved water and household water treatment practice …

WEBAccess to safe drinking water is a fundamental requirement for human health and critical to socioeconomic development of the nation [1,2].Efforts have been done to …

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Health: redefined

WEBFor many years the definition of 'health' has remained unchanged as a narrow concept, encompassing physical wellbeing from a medical context. This …

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Strengthening pre-service training of healthcare workers on

WEBPre-service health training institutions have a key role in training qualified medical and nursing staff deployable in immunisation programmes, making them …

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Lessons learned from early implementation of the Growing …

WEBINTRODUCTION: the Growing Expertise in E-health Knowledge and Skills (GEEKS) program is an applied apprenticeship program that aims to improve informatics …

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Oral health knowledge, attitude and oral hygiene practices among …

WEBINTRODUCTION: Oral diseases (OD), common dental caries and periodontitis are a major public health problem. Poor oral hygiene has been associated …

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Reproductive health education: a qualitative study of health …

WEBStudy design: the study utilized qualitative research design informed by a thematic analysis [] to understand the reproductive health-seeking behaviour of in …

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Health- related quality of life among patient with chronic diseases

WEBIntroduction: in the last two years, COVID-19 has largely changed the rhythm of human life and overwhelmed the healthcare systems globally. Patients with pre …

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Improving access, quality and efficiency in health care delivery in

WEBProviding equitable access to health care for every Nigerian is central in the country´s National Health Act. But the Nigerian Health System ranks poorly in terms of …

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Continuity of health service delivery during the COVID-19 …

WEBIn response to coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic (COVID-19), the government of Uganda instituted movement restrictions to curb disease spread. …

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COVID-19 pandemic and the widening oral health inequality in …

WEBThe inequality in access to oral health care in Nigeria is driven by the low numbers of trained health care workers, disproportionate distribution of oral health …

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Determinants to late antenatal clinic start among pregnant …

WEBINTRODUCTION: To improve maternal health, barriers that limit access to quality maternal health services must be identified and addressed at all levels of the …

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Health-seeking behaviour for schistosomiasis: a systematic review …

WEBSchistosomiasis is a chronic and debilitating parasitic disease acquired through contact with infested freshwater. An essential component of its control is …

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Uptake of health insurance in Malawi in 2019-2020: evidence from …

WEBINTRODUCTION: Although countries in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) show progress in implementing various forms of health insurance, there is a dearth of …

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Predictors of COVID-19 infection among health care workers in …

WEBCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is a pandemic declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020 [].It is a highly infectious respiratory disease …

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Essential health services delivery in Zimbabwe during the COVID …

WEBZimbabwe reported its first case of COVID-19 on 20 March 2020, and since then the number has increased to over 4,000. To contain the spread of the causative …

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Health care seeking behaviors of pregnant women in rural Amhara

WEBINTRODUCTION: In Ethiopia, there are high rates of maternal and newborn deaths that could be prevented by access to basic antenatal-neonatal health services. …

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African Case Studies for Public Health Volume 2

WEBIn this supplement of the Pan African Medical Journal, we introduce the second series of African case studies for public health. The first series was published in May 2017 and …

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Driving the implementation of the National Health Act of Nigeria …

WEBThe Nigerian government has previously implemented policies to achieve universal health coverage, however, only few are health insured. In 2022, the President …

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