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“…This is where more births (87%) took place. More than 58% of the charges were done using out of pocket payment as only 10% of participants had Health Insurance as a mode of prepayment. …”
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“…The target population was vendors who have been doing business at the market within a period of 6 months prior to the study and buyers who have been shopping at the central market within that same period. …”
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“…The results identified individual, psychological and health service factors that hinder adolescent‘s health-seeking practices during pregnancy. The individual factors were low level of education 72.5%, inability to make decisions as regards to care 73.8%, inadequate knowledge 44.16 % related to health seeking practices, under age 40.8%, and marital status 30 %. …”
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“…Narratives were analysed using content analysis. The findings revealed that women experienced intense pain on their back and lower abdomen during childbirth. …”
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“…According to the World Health Organization report of the year 2003 the major cause of stroke worldwide is old age whilst in Africa and many developing nations, lower life expectancy and rapidly changing lifestyles, mostly caused by differences in public health and access to health care, medicine, nutritional diet, exercise, tobacco smoking, and excessive drug and alcohol use are among the major cause of stroke. …”
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“…During the antenatal period dietary preferences change. …”
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“…The limitations of this study included poor representation of participant because only two regions were used, central and southern regions. Another limitation is that the group of participants chosen was not chosen by random sampling but rather chosen from a certain specific area. …”
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“…The aim of this study is to explore factors that would motivate nurse midwives to work in the maternity ward. A qualitative method of research will be used as a research design. …”
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“…Early diagnosis and treatment were the key benefits for undergoing screening. Poor environment consisting of poor sanitation and hygiene, Preference of female health practitioners during screening, poor treatment by prison officers & health care givers when accessing care and poor living conditions were reported as challenges that affected screening uptake in the prison. …”
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“…Structured questionnaires were used on 130 nurse educators who consented to take part in the study. …”
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“…A sample will comprise 10 parents or guardians aged 19- 40 who have children of under-five years of age and have come for under-five services. …”
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“…Despite this knowledge the results have shown that the practice of same sexual practices does occur in single sex boarding schools. …”
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“…This will later be communicated to mothers in paediatric ward and under five clinics. The study will help to prevent pneumonia in children and hence reduce child mortality rate in Malawi.…”
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“…Findings of the study have implications for nursing education, research, practice and for policy makers, who have to enact and ensure that strategies aimed at stemming the rampage of HIV/AIDS should benefit women of low socio-economic status. …”
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“…The findings of the study have revealed that maternal complications at TBAs is a result of an interplay of several factors such as delay in decision making both by T BAs and husbands of clients, unsafe practices during labour and delivery, dirty environment, poverty and long distance to reach the health facility. …”
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“…Participants were purposively chosen from the departments in order to have a wider view of ideas. …”
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“…This is a qualitative, phenomenological descriptive study which will be conducted to find out the perception of mothers towards expressed breastfeeding at Kamuzu Central Hospital pediatric ward A- Nursery. The study will have a sample size of 15 mothers and data will be collected using a questionnaire. …”
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“…This is a qualitative, phenomenological descriptive study which will be conducted to find out the perception of mothers towards expressed breastfeeding at Kamuzu Central Hospital pediatric ward A- Nursery. The study will have a sample size of 15 mothers and data will be collected using a questionnaire. …”
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