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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Mission hospital"”.
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The use of traditional herbal medicines among palliative care patients at Mulanje Mission Hospital, Malawi
… gender, education, occupation, distance from hospital, diagnosis or symptom. 62% of the participants who used herbal medicines did not know the herbs they were taking. Kigelia Africana, Moringa oleifera, Cyphostema sp, and Strychnos innocua were the common herbs used. Cultural practices, …
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Adherence to treatment by patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus at Monze Mission Hospital,Monze,Zambia
… patients aged 20 years and above at Monze Mission Hospital in Monze district. It sought to answer the research questions: (1) What is the level of adherence to treatment by patients with type 2 Diabetes mellitus receiving care from Monze Mission Hospital? (2) What factors influence …
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A history of Chitokoloki mission hospital in Zambezi district of the North-Western province of Zambia, 1914-2014.
… is to reconstruct the history of Chitokoloki Mission Hospital in Zambezi District of the North-Western Province and determine its significance in the history of mission hospitals in Zambia. While the Zambian medical history has tended to focus on the role of Western medicine in the health of …
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A history of Chitokoloki mission hospital in Zambezi district of the North-Western province of Zambia, 1914-2014.
… is to reconstruct the history of Chitokoloki Mission Hospital in Zambezi District of the North-Western Province and determine its significance in the history of mission hospitals in Zambia. While the Zambian medical history has tended to focus on the role of Western medicine in the health of …
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Identifying the potential barriers and facilitators that can contribute to the level of antiretroviral treatment adherence among people living with HIV and AIDS in the rural district of Chongwe, Zambia
… Therapy (ART) in two of the largest hospitals in Zambia: Lusaka and Ndola hospitals. As many people begin accessing ART in rural areas in Zambia, one of the major challenges is ensuring that those receiving ART adhere to treatment to avoid the emergence of drug resistance and …
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A cost-effectiveness analysis of alternative tuberculosis control programs in rural Zambia
… patient and health system cost data were used. Hospital cost data were collected from a mission hospital in rural Zambia for the periods 1989 and 1997. Patient cost data were collected from a sample of 50 patients in terms of time and travel costs. The cure rate was used as the measure of …
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Sanctified lives: Christian medical humanitarianism in southern Zambia
Throughout Africa today Christian missionaries from the United States and Europe are providing more medical assistance than ever before and yet they remain, in much recent scholarship, more often associated with the colonial past than the humanitarian present. In many rural areas of Africa these …
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Determinants of orthopaedic service utilisation among young people aged 5-24 years old in Zambia
… young patients (5-24) at the University Teaching Hospital and the St John Paul II Orthopaedic Mission Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia. An embedded mixed methods design was used to conduct a hospital based cross sectional study that focused on high and low level of orthopaedic services utilisation. …
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Determinants of orthopaedic service utilisation among young people aged 5-24 years old in Zambia
… young patients (5-24) at the University Teaching Hospital and the St John Paul II Orthopaedic Mission Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia. An embedded mixed methods design was used to conduct a hospital based cross sectional study that focused on high and low level of orthopaedic services utilisation. …
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Changing etiologies in childhood acute febrile illness: implications for management in an era of declining malaria
… how shifts in pathogen distribution and transmission impact AFI incidence and how these changes impact the management practices of healthcare workers (HCWs). This dissertation sought to describe recent time trends of malaria and non-malarial AFI (Aim 1), to evaluate the contribution of dengue …
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Medical missions in Rhodesien / Zimbabwe : zur Geschichte der Missionshospitäler der Erzdiözese Bulawayo und den Biographien ihrer leitenden Ärztinnen
… Rhodesien), die von 4 deutschen Ärztinnen des Missionsärztlichen Instituts Würzburg nach dem 2.Weltkrieg in enger Zusammenarbeit mit den Mariannhiller Missionaren (einem kath. Missionsorden)im Gebiet der heutigen Erzdiözese Bulawayo auf- und ausgebaut wurden. Diese Missionshospitäler sind Teil …
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Some observations on cataract and cataract patients in Bihar, India
… somewhere around 4,500 - Bamdah 1400, the other hospitals 5100 - an arresting total, and one being increased annually, but still capable of much improvement. 4,500 then is the number operated on each year; what is the number not done? This question, like many another asked in those pages, is …