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Equitable Access to Health Professional Training in Uganda: A Cross Sectional Study
(Annals of global health, 2018)
Objective: We set out to assess inequalities to access health professional education, and the impact of an education improvement program supported by MEPI (Medical Education Partnership Initiative). Inequalities in the ...
Impact of Mental Health Training on Mental Well-being of Lay Counselors in Northern Uganda
(Jacobs Journal of Community Medicine, 2018)
Data on the impact of mental health first aid training on the mental well-being of lay counselors is limited despite a wealth of research on the training of lay counselors. We tested the hypothesis that mental health first ...
Migration and Public Service Delivery: The Status Quo and Policy Responses in Sending and Receiving Countries
(Springer International Publishing AG 2018, 2018)
The recent wave of migration from the Middle East to Europe has brought the complexities of global migration into sharp focus. Images of human suffering, of determination and of triumph have dominated the media in the ...
Genetic variation and relationships of total seed protein content with some agronomic traits in pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.)
(Australian Journal of Crop Science, 2018)
Seed protein content (SPC) is an important grain quality trait, which impacts the nutritional importance of pigeonpea seed in the
diet of over a billion people globally. The present study was carried out to determine ...
Lactate clearance as a prognostic marker of mortality in severely ill febrile children in East Africa
(BMC Medicine, 2018)
Background: Hyperlactataemia (HL) is a biomarker of disease severity that predicts mortality in patients with sepsis
and malaria. Lactate clearance (LC) during resuscitation has been shown to be a prognostic factor of ...
Student self-assessment after Essential Surgical Skills training for final-year medical students at Gulu University, northern Uganda
(East And Central African Journal of Surgery, 2018)
Background
Medical practice depends on a set of essential clinical and surgical skills, yet inadequate attention is given to training these skills
in medical school. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of Essential ...
Case Report: Swallowed toothbrush in the stomach of a 56 year female at St Mary’s Hospital Lacor, Uganda [version 1; referees: 1 approved with reservations, 1 not approved]
(AAS Open Research, 2018)
Toothbrush swallowing is a rare occurrence. Toothbrush swallowing presents a
risk of impaction and perforation along the gastrointestinal tract. This case
report describes a 56 year old female that presented to the ...
Evaluation of a data-informed community engagement strategy to increase immunisation coverage in northern Uganda: a cluster-randomised controlled trial with an embedded process evaluation
(The Lancet Global Health, 2018)
Background The 2016 Ugandan Demographic and Health Survey indicated that only 86% of children (aged
12–23 months) in northern Uganda had received the third dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine (DTP3) and
only 65% ...
Hollywood and Africa Recycling the ‘Dark Continent’ myth, 1908–2020
(African Humanities Program, 2018)
Negative imaging of Africa through the Dark Continent trope continues unabated
in Western cultural productions. While colonial historiography has been successfully
challenged by various professional historians on the ...
Effect of improved seed system on potato yields in Uganda
(RUFORUM Working Document Series, 2018)
Potato seed quality is an important determinant of crop performance, final yield and quality.
The quality of seed used by farmers depend on the existing seed system. In Uganda, since the
formal sector has limited capacity ...