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Factors Affecting Hand Hygiene Practices among Staff of Uganda Heart Institute Mulago Hospital.
(International Health Sciences University., 2014-11)Introduction: Although Hand hygiene is recognized as the single most important factor in preventing the spread of infection and plays a key role in delivering safe patient care, more than 1.4 million patients worldwide ... -
Factors Affecting Health Workers in the Provision of Quality Health Care Services Based on Patient Exit Interview in Mengo Hospital.
(International Health Sciences University, 2016-11)Background Quality of health care is actually doing the right thing such as providing the required health care services to the patients at the right time when they need them and in the right way by use of the most ... -
Factors affecting hepatitis B vaccination among health care workers in Kaberamaido and Lwala health facilities in Kaberamaido district - Uganda.
(International Health Sciences University., 2015-12)Background: Globally, 2 billion people are exposed to Hepatitis B viral infection, 350 million people are chronically infected, while 65 million alone in Sub-Saharan Africa. Hepatitis B is also a major cause of morbidity ... -
Factors Affecting Immunization Status of Children under 5 years in Kadungulu sub-county, Serere district.
(International Health Sciences University., 2015-12)Introduction: Immunization is a lifesaving and cost effective medical intervention that reduces childhood morbidity and mortality from vaccine preventable disease. Objective: This study sought to investigate factors ... -
Factors Affecting Knowledge, Perception and Practice Among Cancer Patients on Chemotherapy:
(International Health Sciences University, 2013-09)Background Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide. In Uganda, diagnosis with cancer comes with additional burden to the patients including that of the different treatment modalities. When cancer is to be treated ... -
Factors Affecting Male Involvement in Elimination of Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV Services in Masafu General Hospital, Busia District.
(International Health Sciences University., 2015-12)Background: Low and middle income countries have almost all infants HIV infection and more than (90%) are the result of mother-to-child transmission occur during pregnancy, labour and delivery, or via breast feeding. In ... -
Factors Affecting Medical Waste Management in Bombo General Military Hospital.
(International Health Sciences University., 2014-11)The study was entitled “factors affecting medical waste management in Bombo general military hospital”. Medical waste is the second most hazardous waste yet subsequent studies indicated that it was poorly managed. This ... -
Factors Affecting Men's Involvement in the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV/AIDS Programmes in Thika Hospital, Thika District, Kenya.
(International Health Sciences University., 2014-11)Background: Male participation in prevention of mother to child prevention of HIV (PMTCT) programmes is likely to increase the female uptake of PMTCT services. Unfortunately men‟s involvement in this intervention is low. ... -
Factors Affecting Neonatal Care Practices Among Post Natal Mothers in Ishaka Adventist Hospital, Bushenyi District-Uganda.
(International Health Sciences University., 2015-12)The research study on “Factors Affecting Neonatal Care Practices Among Post Natal Mothers In Ishaka Adventist Hospital, Bushenyi District-Uganda”, was conducted utilizing quantitative and simple survey design. The study ... -
Factors Affecting Non Compliance to Exclusive Breastfeeding Among HIV Infected Mothers in Mbale Hospital.
(International Health Sciences University, 2016-11)Background World over, the practice of exclusive breastfeeding among HIV positive mothers has received a great deal of attention due to its numerous benefits. For instance, the World Health Organization indicates that a ... -
Factors Affecting Occurrence of Needle Stick Injuries Among the Health Workers at International Hospital Kampala.
(International Health Sciences University, 2013-09)Introduction: An epidemiological study by WHO(2010) indicated that a person who experiences one needle stick injury from a needle used on an infected source patient had risks of 30%, 1.8%, and 0.3% respectively to become ... -
Factors affecting older people from accessing health care services in Nabalanga sub county.
(International Health Sciences University., 2015-12)Introduction: This study is entitled “factors affecting older people from accessing health care services in Nabalanga Sub County”. Globally, there is an increasing number of old people who are unable to access health care ... -
Factors Affecting Patient Satisfaction with Health Care Services at Moroto Regional Referral Hospital, Moroto District, Karamoja.
(International Health Sciences University., 2014-11)Background: This study was about; “Factors affecting patient satisfaction with health care services at Moroto regional referral hospital”. In today’s demand driven environment, patient satisfaction is top on the agenda for ... -
Factors Affecting Patients' Satisfaction with Nursing Care Provided at Night in Kayunga Hospital.
(International Health Sciences University., 2014-11)Introduction: Worldwide, satisfaction has been examined on level of employees in lieu to the job-performance while clients or beneficiaries to the services have been given a little crew. Realizing the lacuna to this extent, ... -
Factors Affecting Preconception Care Among Pregnant Women Aged 15-45 years Attending Arua Regional Referral Hospital Arua District.
(International Health Sciences University, 2016-11)Introduction Preconception care ultimate aim is to improve maternal and child health, in both the short and long term. However, preconception attendance is affected demographic, facility and policy factors. This study ... -
Factors Affecting Prevention of Malaria among Children Under Five Years at Household Level in Namuwongo Slum.
(International Health Sciences University., 2014-11)Introduction: Malaria is still a major global health problem and one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in sub Saharan Africa in 2010, an estimated 216 million cases and 655000 deaths of malaria occur ... -
Factors Affecting Quality of Care to Hospitalized Patients Admitted in Medical and Surgical Wards of Mulago National Referral Hospital.
(International Health Sciences University., 2014-11)INTRODUCTION: The purpose of the study was to explore the factors affecting the quality of care to hospitalized patients of medical and surgical wards of Mulago Hospital. Specific factors like organizational factors, ... -
Factors Affecting Regular Uptake Of Antenatal Services Among Pregnant Mothers In Their 3rdtrimester At Kisugu Health Center III.
(International Health Sciences University, 2018-11)Background According to WHO, a pregnant mother should have attended antenatal care (ANC) at least four times by their 3rd trimester (WHO, 2015). This implies at least one visit in the 1st trimester, 2nd visit in the ... -
Factors affecting retention of health workers in the remote areas of kinkinzi west kanungu district.
(International Health Sciences University., 2-12)Introduction: The World Health Organization (WHO 2006) reported that globally there is lack of over 4.2 million health professionals. Uganda is among the 57 countries with critical shortage of health workers and experiences ... -
Factors Affecting the Utilization of Maternity Care Services:
(International Health Sciences University, 2013-09)Utilization of maternal health services is associated with improved maternal and neonatal health outcomes. So this study set out to determine the factors affecting the utilization of maternity care services in Apopong ...