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Background: Death after an illness may be perceived as normal, especially after someone has sought care from institutions of care and they have done everything to save life and have failed, in Zambia, while others will die in hospital after such efforts have been made. Health Information System...

The research contained in this document was done in order to determine the factors contributing to a high number of home deliveries in Mufulira urban. The identified factors were subjected to tests in order to establish whether the association observed was significant or not.Maternal health is...

Health care delivery policy and strategies in Zambia could be said to have evolved through four significant phases. First, the pre-independence era whose health policies and strategies were based on the racial segregation ideology. Secondly, the immediate post-independence era whose health care...

Objective: The objective was to determine whether the health staff understand what the health reforms are all about and whether they have accepted them and are practising in line with which has been stipulated in the guidelines.Design: This was a descriptive comparative study which compared the...

HIV/AIDS ia a major problem in urban Lusaka, with many patients now nursed at home in the terminal stages of this illness, (MOH 1992). This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study to assess the symptom management practices, of the Home Based Caregivers for people with AIDS in Lusaka. The study...

Zambia's health policy and strategies can be said to have evolved through four significant phases. First, was the pre-independence period whose health policies were influenced by the colour-segregation ideology. Secondly, immediately after independence health policies and strategies were...

User fees are generally used in government institutions as a means of alleviating pressure on constrained budgets. In 2006, the Zambian Government abolished user fees in all rural areas except urban areas and municipalities like Solwezi. The Government took this position because of the...

In Zambia, one in ten children dies before the first birthday, and one in five before their fifth birthday. To reduce this unacceptable high under five mortality the IMCI strategy was introduced in Zambia in 1995 by the Central Board of Health (CBOH) in collaboration with other cooperating...

This study was necessitated by a paucity of research into the communication that takes place in doctor-patient interactions in Zambia; noting that patients have in the past complained that doctors communicate with them in a language they do not understand very well or at all and so were...

The aim of the study was to determine patterns of sexual practice, use and knowledge of contraceptive methods among adolescents in Lusaka urban Zambia. A cross sectional study was conducted in 10 secondary schools in Lusaka urban. Stratified sampling method was used to come up with a sample size...