“…Female drivers were 0.91 times less likely to be diagnosed with diabetes than their male counterparts. The mean Body Mass Index for the drivers was 5.39 kg/m2 (95% CI 24.2-26.6). …”
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“…On source of information out of the 56.6% (n=17) who had knowledge 11.7% (n—2) heard it from the media, 29.4% (n=5) from health workers, 17.6% from their peers and lastly 41.1 % (n=7) from medical surgical nursing books. …”
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“…This study is aimed at assessing and evaluating, the knowledge, attitude and practices on alcohol and drug abuse among the youth of Mponda village, Balaka district. Its control idea is to identify and measure the gaps that can help to plan and implement measures that will help in dealing with the burden. …”
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“…Adolescent still reported that they get information on birth controls from friends, media, school of which it's not clearly understood to them and at the end they get confused with the information of which they don't utilize. …”
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“…Accepting their situation, praying, isolation, use of media and social support are the strategies pregnant adolescent used to cope with the experiences of stigma. …”
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“…It also provides a common direction to all government, non-governmental organisations, private sector organizations, media and development partners at national and local levels on how to effectively implement disaster risk management programmes and activities. …”
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“…It also provides a common direction to all government, non-governmental organisations, private sector organizations, media and development partners at national and local levels on how to effectively implement disaster risk management programmes and activities. …”
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“…The aim of the study is to find out the knowledge, attitude and practices of Kamuzu Central Hospital nurses in the management of HIV exposed children. The main idea of the study to identify the gaps in the management of HIV exposed children so that proper measures can be put in place. …”
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“…It also established that their main sources of information about Jadelle were significant others, media and health talks. As such family planning providers should intensify one-on-one counseling to all the FP clients to ensure that they have clear and adequate information about Jadelle which may allow them to make informed choices.…”
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“…Sixteen In-depth interviews (IDIs) were conducted with traders in different businesses at Lilongwe Central market. …”
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“…What is clearly emanating from this research is that grassroots’ participation in Chitipa District council is a farfetched idea because local elites are exploiting the new found window of opportunity in the decentralization initiative to promote patronage and neopatriomonism at the expense of the grassroots participation in decision-making. …”
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“…The study findings revealed that the community members welcomed the idea of banning TBA from conducting deliveries. However, the community members view implementation of the policy to be difficult because of prevalent factors affecting accessibility and utilization of safe delivery services. …”
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“…In early March, a severe weather system formed off the eastern coast of Mozambique and hit Malawi with heavy rain accompanied by strong winds in before moving back to the Mozambique channel where it intensified into Cyclone Idai and then hit Malawi a second time. The heavy and persistent rain led to severe flooding across some districts in southern Malawi. …”
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“…Hand washing with soap also reduces the incidence of skin diseases; eye infections such as trachoma; and intestinal worms, especially ascariasis and trichuriasis and enteric viruses. …”
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“…However, twenty percent of the participants indicated that the information was given by a health provider at the Outpatient Department (OPD) after being diagnosed with stroke. …”
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“…Qualitative data was collected from 6 Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and 32 In-depth Interviews (IDI) with primary care-givers, community health volunteers (CHVs), traditional leaders and members of Health Centre Advisory Committees (HCACs) and was analysed using thematic content analysis. …”
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“…The good synergistic results (susceptibility) were observed in combined EM8+INH and FV8+INH while a moderate synergistic result was observed in C5+INH indicating an additive effect of the combination. However, antagonistic activity (resistance) was observed in combined EM9+ETH and E1+ETH. …”
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“…It aims at exploring peoples' ideas on chicken pox and what people do at home to treat and prevent this disease hence reducing misconceptions and shortfalls that were being practiced at home. …”
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“…Most (90%) of the clients were not given a chance to ask questions when health personnel interacted with them indicating that clients would indeed be short of information. …”
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