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Injury Outcomes in Elderly Patients Admitted at an Urban African Hospital
(University of Nairobi,, 2013)
Background: Elderly patients have worse outcomes for similar severity when compared to younger trauma patients. Elderly patients form smaller proportions of the trauma population in the developing world in comparison to ...
Stable antenatal HIV-1 seroprevalence with high population mobility and marked seroprevalence variation among sentinel sites within Nairobi, Kenya.
(1999)
Objectives: To monitor and analyse trends in HIV-1 seroprevalence among
antenatal women in Nairobi, Kenya.
Design: Six sequential surveys were carried out among antenatal clinic attenders at
four Nairobi City Council ...
Knowledge of psychiatric terms and concepts among Kenyan youth: Analysis of focus group discussions.
(2013)
Psychiatric disorders and symptoms are common worldwide. However, cultural differences in symptom manifestation and knowledge of psychiatric terms and concepts represent a challenge to accurate clinical assessment. Our ...
Domestic violence and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1
(2006)
Objectives Todeterminetheprevalenceof life-timedomesticviolencebythecurrent
partnerbeforeHIV-1testing,itsimpactontheuptakeofpreventionofmother-to-child
transmission (PMTCT) interventions and frequency after testing.
Design ...
Implementing a hospital based injury surveillance system in Africa: lessons learned
(2008)
A multinational injury surveillance pilot project was carried out in five African countries in the first half of 2007 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia). Hospitals were selected in each ...
National culture and organizational capabilities of IT offshoring services in Kenya
(2013)
The pervasive adoption of outsourced information technology (IT) services has made the multi-billion
dollar information technology outsourcing industry become important to individual organizations and
governments as well. ...
A Review of African Pastoral Production Systems: Approaches to Their Understanding and Development
(2002)
Pastoralism is a system that has been in existence
for a long time. Scholars have come up with
a cornucopia of definitions related to what entails
this centuries old art. Many of these scholars
agree, though, that ...
Democratic decentralization in sub-Saharan Africa: its contribution to forest management, livelihoods, and enfranchisement
(University of Nairobi,, 2010)
Efforts to promote popular participation in forest management in Sub-Saharan Africa have faced many obstacles and disappointments. Although promises of improvements in relation to forest management, rural livelihoods and ...