Background:The Ministry of Health is drafting a policy that aims at integrating health services delivery for people above 60 years within the existing delivery structures in Uganda. To inform their …
Nakigozi G,
Wawer MJ,
Gray RH,
Serwadda D,
Nalugoda F,
Kagaayi J,
Ssekasanvu J,
Haberlen SA,
Brahmbhatt H
2015
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background: A decade after the rollout of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa, the effects of this structural change on social aspects of HIV, such as rates of HIV disclosure …
Purpose: The interpretation & correlation of the different laboratory parameters in positive dengue cases in order to eval-uate that which laboratory test is more significant for diagnosis of Dengue. Methods: …
Habibi H.,
Suzuki A.,
Hayashi K.,
Salimi H.,
Terai H.,
Hori Y.,
Tamai K.,
Orita K.,
Ohyama S.,
Yabu A.
and others...
2021
Journal,
Article
Health Research
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Ligamentum flavum (LF) hypertrophy plays a dominant role in lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). A previous study found that fibroblast growth factor 9 (FGF9) was upregulated with mechanical stress …
Habibi H.,
Suzuki A.,
Hayashi K.,
Salimi H.,
Terai H.,
Hori Y.,
Orita K.,
Yabu A.,
Nakamura H.
2022
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background: Fibrosis is one of the main pathologies caused by hypertrophy of the ligamentum flavum (LF), which leads to lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). The fibroblast growth factor (FGF) family is …
This thesis focused on the development of a fundamentally new way to validate the precision and accuracy of radiation therapy treatment sessions for breast cancer, by optically imaging the Cherenkov …
Purpose/Objective(s): Ampullary and Periampullary carcinomas (APAC) are uncommon gastrointestinal cancers that are often amenable to surgical resection. The benefit of postoperative adjuvant chemoradiotherapy (ACRT) in patients with completely resected localized …
Wasserman D,
Hadlaczky G,
Hoven CW,
Mandell DJ,
Wasserman C
2011
Book,
Whole
Health Research
In the light of the more than 1.5 million annual suicide deaths worldwide projected for 2020, suicide prevention is clearly a high priority. Moreover, the goal of suicide prevention is …
Providing care to cancer patients in resource-poor settings often demands complex trade-offs regarding resource allocation. It is estimated that over 60% of all cancer deaths worldwide occur in low-and middle-income …
Goodman C,
Benova L,
Haemmerli M,
Santos A,
Penn-Kekana L,
Lange I,
Matovu F,
Wong KLM
2018
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Substantial investments have been made in clinical social franchising to improve quality of care of private facilities in low-and middle-income countries but concerns have emerged that the benefits fail to …
The key to high impact health services is institutionalizing and sustaining programme evaluation. Uganda represents a success story in the use of a specific programme evaluation method: Lot Quality Assurance …
