A pregnant teenager who drops out of school has her child predisposed to live in abject poverty as she joins the poverty cycle. Society pays a heavy price for children who are likely to lack proper parenting, economic security and at high risk of behavioral problems and vices such as crime,...
Download PDF ↓This research looks at the determinants of under-five mortality in Kitwe district in Zambia. The objective of this study was to investigate the determinants of under-five mortality in Kitwe district. Both qualitative and quantitative techniques were used in collecting data. A detailed...
Download PDF ↓This research looks at the determinants of under-five mortality in Kitwe district in Zambia. The objective of this study was to investigate the determinants of under-five mortality in Kitwe district. Both qualitative and quantitative techniques were used in collecting data. A detailed...
Download PDF ↓Background: Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is a constellation of clinical features that increase cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in individuals. Up-to-date, there is no cheap, single surrogate test for MetS and current diagnostic criteria for the syndrome use scoring systems which are...
Download PDF ↓HIV disclosure and nondisclosure may have positive and negative impact on HIV positive clients and their sexual partners, family, and friends but very little was known in Zambia on the types of disclosure and its determinants. This study sought to answer two research questions; what risks or...
Download PDF ↓This study was necessitated by many gaps in pain research in Zambia. The percentage of doctors and nurses that assess pain using any indicator and what doctors and nurses do to treat pain. Therefore this study sought to answer the following overarching question. What do doctors and nurses do to...
Download PDF ↓This study was necessitated by many gaps in pain research in Zambia. The percentage of doctors and nurses that assess pain using any indicator and what doctors and nurses do to treat pain. Therefore this study sought to answer the following overarching question. What do doctors and nurses do to...
Download PDF ↓Malaria infection during pregnancy is a major public health problem in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Pregnant women in developing countries are the worst affected. Malaria in pregnancy has serious consequences both to the mother and her baby. It leads to abortion,...
Download PDF ↓Scholars such as Hornby (1994), have proposed that the parents of disabled children go through a series of emotional adjustments which lead to the final state of acceptance of the child's condition. Based on Hornby's adaptation model, this study set out to establish the emotional adjustments made...
Download PDF ↓The clinical and epidemiological aspects of rotavirus diarrhoea was studied in hospitalized children under five years with acute gastroenteritis in Lusaka, Zambia for a period of one year. Two hundred and fifty six (24.1 %) of 1,064 children admitted to the study were shedding rotavirus....
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