Sustainability is a complex system of interaction between a hospital, individual, community, and environmental factors that is required to work in harmony to keep a patient healthy. With the complexities that exist within ...

Integrated health services improve health system efficiency, horizontalization of vertical programmes, and appropriate use of human, financial and medical resources. The integration of maternal health services reduces ...

Background: Globally, adolescents face health risks, especially with respect to sexuality and reproduction. Each year, 7.4 million girls have unintended pregnancies that resulted to 3 million unsafe abortions. There is a ...

Nurses constitute the largest professional group in South Africa's health care services. Factors contributing to South African nurses' emigration were studied qualitatively by analysing expatriate nurses' responses to ...

This study analysed the learning environment of undergraduate medical and health sciences students of the School of Medicine University of Zambia who were studying at the Ridgeway Campus. Premised on the theory that learner’s ...

In Tanzania laboratory services were observed to be not providing the quality of services required. It is assumed that the perceived discrepancy between malaria diagnosis and confirming laboratory result might be attributed ...

The purpose of the study was to assess the level of knowledge about glaucoma among the patients who attend the CBN staff eye clinic in Abuja. An exploratory, descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted on adult CBN ...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop best practice guidelines to address barriers to treatment completion of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in Ethiopia. Method: This study utilised a research ...

Aim: The purpose of the research was to determine the magnitude and factors associated with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), and to explore the experiences of gynaecologists/obstetricians and midwives in the monitoring ...

A needs assessment during 2000 guided the design of a buddy system in Botswana. Implementation of this care and support system for and by 39 HIV+ve female buddy-client pairs started in 2002. During April and November 2002, ...