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Malnutrition is one of the most common associated clinical presentations of patients admitted to the medical wards at the UTH with various medical conditions. It may be a predisposing factor to the disease condition or may be the result of the underlying disease process. Whatever the reason might...

The home based care programme has been set up throughout the country. This was one of the responses to the ever-increasing prevalence rate of the Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV). While indeed many studies have documented the devastating effect of HIV and Acquired Immune Deficiency Virus...

This report is based on an attachment at Mongu District Education board Secretary's Office assess the role of Participatory Communication in enhancing School Health and feeding Programme, using a case study of Ministry of education/Project Concern international School Feeding Programme for...

The purpose of the study was to determine how satisfied the client were with high cost services at Mansa General Hospital. The reason for doing the study was that despite the revision of the high cost fees from K80.000 to K120.000 the number of clients accessing the services continued to...

Knowledge is the foundation for practice. Most nutrition education programmes operate on the premise that nutritional knowledge of mothers can have an impact on the nutritional status of their children. Literature review revealed that most mothers who had access to the nutrition education...

Background and Objective: There is paucity of data on the outcome of combined VPS insertion and myelomeningocoele repair, and whether this will reduce morbidity and mortality. This study was designed to address this research question. Method: Prospective descriptive interventional study was used...

As the level of competition in soccer is increasing, the prevalence of injuries also has increased. This calls for more rehabilitation facilities to be employed by the football clubs. The main role of physiotherapy in football is injury treatment and prevention, education, rehabilitation,...

User fees in Lusaka, Zambia, were introduced in government health care facilities, in August 1993, with the overall aim of providing Zambians with equity of access to cost effective quality health care as close to the family as possible. The introduction of user fees was based on the assumption...

Over the last decade, young peoples' health has become a subject of increasing concern throughout the World (Senderwitz, 1995). The needs of the young people are complex, diverse and demand urgent attention. This is all due to the changing patterns of behavior, combined with changing living...

Zambia, like many other countries is experiencing the crisis of the Human Immune Deficiency Virus/ Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) epidemic with a prevalence rate of 14.7%. Community home based care (CHBC) is one of the ways of responding to the crisis. No known study in Zambia to...