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Understanding depression treatment and perinatal service preferences of Kenyan pregnant adolescents: A discrete choice experiment
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Background: Understanding mental health treatment preferences of adolescents and youth is particularly important for interventions to be acceptable and successful. Person-centered care mandates empowering individuals to ... -
Understanding Development Control Challenges in The City- Periphery
(Africa Habitat, 2020-08-02)The development of the city-periphery is an inevitable consequence of urbanization in many developing countries, and acts as exit points for residents relocating from dense urban built areas, and entry points for rural ... -
Understanding Discourse at Word Level
(Department of Linguistics, University of Nairobi, 2013)This paper explores how discourse structure is cascaded from processes emerging at the word and graduating through various levels of hierarchy to affect both purpose of text and meanings therein. At the heart of the argument ... -
Understanding Enforceability Challenges Facing Equality Rights Under Art. 27 of the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya
(University of Nairobi,, 2014)By illustrating the theoretical framework of equality rights the author seeks to explain some of the key challenges facing their enforceability and constitutionality in the Kenyan modern legal system. Under the Constitution ... -
Understanding environmental communication (co-edited with Margaret Karembu)(published by ACCE-Kenya)
(University of Nairobi,School of Journalism, 1999)Evidence indicates that environmental concerns have not been given the critical attention they deserve in many developing countries. The reverse is the case in most countries in the North. In Journalists for example, tend ... -
Understanding factors influencing home pregnancy test use among women in western Kenya: A qualitative analysis
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Background: There are limited data on home pregnancy test use among women in low-and-middle-income countries. A prior survey found that only 20% of women in western Kenya used a home pregnancy test to confirm their pregnancies ... -
Understanding Family Planning, Facts and Misconceptions
(1992)The greatest number of barriers to the effective use of contraception was seen among non-US-born Hispanic women. Fewer differences emerged between US-born Hispanics and whites, although differences continued to exist between ... -
Understanding Female Circumcision from the Circumcisers' Perspective
(University of NairobiCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2006)The resistance of circumcisers can be a substantial obstacle to the eradication of female genital mutilation (FGM). As part of a broader study on FGM conducted in Kenya's Machakos, Nyeri, and Embu districts, in-depth ... -
Understanding how contextual realities affect African born immigrants and refugees living with HIV in accessing care in the Twin Cities
(University of Nairobi.Department of Surgery, 2007)The Rapid Assessment, Response, and Evaluation (RARE) portion of the CSAD Project in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota) was designed to identify barriers to care faced by African refugees and immigrants. ... -
Understanding Language Shift And Culture Change: The Case Of A Kenyan Generation
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Understanding Linguistics - Introductory Survey
(University of NairobiDepartment of literature and language, 2005) -
Understanding linguistics, Introductory Survey, Manuscript Reviewed
(Department of Linguistics, University of Nairobi, 2002) -
Understanding maize/beans intercropping yield distributions from water conservation measures in a hedged agroforestry system in semi-arid Laikipia District, Kenya
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Understanding mental health difficulties and associated psychosocial outcomes in adolescents in the HIV clinic at Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Background: Globally adolescents continue to have an upward trend in HIV incidence and AIDS-related mortality. The interplay between the rapid physical growth, sexual maturation, and enormous albeit slow-evolving cognitive ... -
Understanding Mobile Banking from a theoretical lens: Case studies of selected Kenyan m-Banking Products
(University of Nairobi, 2015-10)Characteristic of every developing nation, Kenya has found itself at crossroads; defining the banking industry with the urge to provide banking services to majority of the unbanked populations. Mobile banking is a banking ... -
Understanding modern Korea through oral testimonies
(University of Nairobi, 2014)The story of a people’s lives can be read as the story of the place in which they live. In April 2012 I conducted research in the cities of Seoul, Gwangju, Mohyeon and surrounding areas in South Korea. I collected ... -
Understanding Oral Literature
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Understanding Oral Literature
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Understanding patterns of injury in Kenya: analysis of a trauma registry data from a National Referral hospital.
(2017)BACKGROUND: Injuries contribute to a substantial proportion of the burden of disease in Kenya. Trauma registries can be a very useful source of data to understand patterns of injuries and serve to provide information ...
