Background: Health insurance (HI) is a social security system that serves as a financial risk protection for families and small businesses, and also increases access to priority health services. This study determined awareness and willingness to participate in Community Based Hea...
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Research Article10.9734/AJRIMPS/2018/42839
Background: Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) is one of the major diseases of public health importance especially in prisons where case-finding rate has been low. The WHO established five facts of prisons PTB spread include: Prisons receive TB, Prisons concentrate TB, Prisons dissemin...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2018/39305
Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) treatment is the most effective strategy for preventing the spread of the disease. Default in TB treatment remains an important contributor to treatment failure, resurgence of multidrug resistance (MDR-TB), prolonged infectiousness, relapse and dea...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2018/39170
Background: Missed immunisation (MI) may contribute to low immunisation coverage in diverse settings, especially developing countries. Receipt of vaccines at the recommended ages and intervals will ensure that children are adequately protected from target diseases at all times. I...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2018/v1i228803
Background: Effective vaccination communication with parents is critical in efforts to overcome barriers to childhood vaccination, tackle vaccine hesitancy and improve vaccination coverage. Health workers should be able to provide information to caregivers and support them in dec...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2018/v2i329754
Background: Human Immunodeficiency virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a significant source of socioeconomic and disease burden especially among the Sub-Saharan African population. Less than 10% of these people especially the adolescents are aware of their stat...
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Research Article10.9734/ISRR/2018/44410
Background: Food handlers have an important role to play in food businesses and that is to guarantee that meals served are hygienic for consumption. Conscious or inadvertent contamination of such food places consumers at risk of suffering food-borne illnesses. The aim of this stu...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2018/45605
Background: Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe, often fatal disease in humans and non-human primates (such as Monkeys, Gorillas and Chimpanzees). Ebola first appeared in 1976 in 2 simultaneous outbreaks in Nzara, Sudan and in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo. No cases of...
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Research Article10.9734/AJMAH/2017/30886