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“…To effectively address this situation and at the same time respond comprehensively to the changes and current challenges, the Ministry and its partners view continuous training and staff development as a powerful tool to respond to the problem. …”
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“…Relationship between demographic variables and knowledge of diabetes was established using spearman correlation for continuous variables and for categorical variables, Chi-square test was used. A total of 63% (n=29) of the respondents knew the cause of type 1 diabetes and 58% (n=42) had inadequate knowledge on managing hyperglycemia. …”
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“…This village was chosen because its one of the areas where bonus wife is 1 practiced. …”
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“…Purposive sampling was used. A total of fifteen participants were recruited in the study of which ten were women who developed complications at T BAs and five were trained 1 and practicing T BAs. …”
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“…Adolescent represent a special group in a society. The status of their reproductive health has many physical, social and demographic ramifications in a society. …”
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“…This means that Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4, which aims at reducing child mortality rate by 2/3 by the year 2015, cannot be achieved. …”
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“…Performance and quality improvement in reproductive health has been introduced to ensure skilled attendance and increase access to services thereby reducing maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. PQI/RH was introduced at Q.E.C H in 2008. Since the initiation of PQI/RH, there has been progress in some of the departments while other departments have shown no progress at all. …”
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“…Convenience sampling was used with a sample of 10 women. Data was collected using an interview guide designed by the researcher where participants were interview for 15-20 minutes. …”
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“…Each parent could discuss one or more RH issues. Some of the issues discussed were abstinence (44.4%),abstinence and exclusive breast feeding (11.1 %),abstinence and VCT (11.1%),abstinence and bodily changes (3.7%).In general, some parents (25.9%), did not discuss any RH issue with their children citing the following reasons: Children were too young to understand this topic (18.5%), parents were themselves shy with their children (3.7%) and the children were themselves more educated than their parents and therefore knew more of this topic than their parents did (3.75). …”
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“…Therefore, it is recommended that Lilongwe District Health Office should consider putting in place some motivating factors for its nurses. Nurse Managers should make it clear that PA is not fault finding but it is one way of promoting provision of quality care to the patients and clients through improving on shortfalls and continuing where we are already doing well. …”
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“…The objectives of the study indicates the level of knowledge of youth on alcohol and drug abuse, identifying their practices after alcohol and drug abuse, describing the feelings of the youth after alcohol and drug abuse and determine the utilization of information on alcohol and drug abuse among the youth.. A quantitative study will be conducted. Data will be collected using questionnaires and a sample of 50 youths will be identified using anon-probability convenient sampling. …”
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“…The study comprised of n= 30. Twenty were nurse/midwives and ten clinicians. …”
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“…The main malaria behaviours that need to be adopted and maintained by individuals, families and communities, include, among others, Malaria Case Management, Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPT) of pregnant women with SP and malaria prevention with special emphasis on Insecticide Treated Nets/ Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs / LLINs) and Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS). …”
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“…Disaster risk management, together with social support, is considered within theme three “Social Support and Disaster Risk Management” of the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy II (MGDS II); a national development strategy that ensures that resources are targeted towards priority areas thereby contributing to the attainment of sustainable development. …”
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“…Malaria accounts for about 48% of all causes of morbidity followed by Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) and diarrheal diseases at 17% and 8.7% respectively (HMIS08). …”
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“…A culture of evidence-based management decisions would help us achieve highest level of efficiency in the provision of basic essential health care to all Malawians. …”
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“…Purposive sample of 16 participants were involved in face to face in-depth interviews using an interview guide. …”
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