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Aug 25, 2022Open Access
Chronic disease has been around as long as humans. But now, in most industrialized nations and in many developing countries, they predominate among the leading causes of death. For many years’ public health practitioners have recognized the increasing burden of chronic illness. In general, the disease is defined as a pathological process, most often physical as in throat infection, or cancer of the bronchus, sometimes undetermined in origin, as in schizophrenia. The quality which identifies dise...
Aug 18, 2022Open Access
Introduction: Workplace accidents represent a real public health problem, although they are usually under-reported. Methodology: We conducted a cross sectional survey aiming to contribute to the fight against occupational accidents in the province of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. COVID-19 in the university residences of Lubumbashi. The data was encoded in Excel and exported to SPSS version 23 (SPSS, Armonk, NY) for analysis purposes. Results: Our results revealed that most of ...
Jul 30, 2022Open Access
This study was conducted to analyse the health benefits and medicinal values of four different selected vegetable species ( Corchorus olitorius, Melissa officinalis, Occimum gratissimum and Talinum triangulare) in three different families; Malvaceae, Lamiaceae and Talinaceae procured in serrekunda market for cosmopolitan consumption rate in the Gambia. A qualitative research design is adopted. Leafy vegetables play specific roles and ...
Jul 28, 2022Open Access
The study was undertaken to assess the Humanitarian health interventions of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to stadium internally displaced persons (IDPs) Camp in Maiduguri Borno State, from 2018-2021. The specific objectives of the study are to examine the major humanitarian health needs of the IDPs in Stadium camp Maiduguri, examine the roles of the NGOs in the provision of humanitarian health assistance to the IDPs in Maiduguri, and identify the type of health assistance rendered by NGO...
Jul 27, 2022Open Access
Background: HIV-1 has a genetic diversity that is very complex. Professional Sex Workers (PSW) have always been considered as a key population for Sexually Transmitted Infections around the world. They are often incriminated for transporting and introducing cosmopolitan subtypes into populations. Objective: The objective of this review was to present the different strains of Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1) which circulate in the population of Professional Sex Workers in Kinshasa, Dem...
Jul 26, 2022Open Access
Introduction: More than a year after its appearance, SARS-CoV-2 continues its global race. Scientists around the world are making rapid progress in developing safe and effective vaccines that will help reduce morbidity as well as mortality from COVID-19. Several vaccines have been developed and vaccination campaigns launched across the world, with hopes of controlling the pandemic. Methodology: We conducted a descriptive study with an analytical aim to contribute to the fight against COVID-19 in...
Jul 15, 2022Open Access
Method: We used the prospective method supported by the techniques of analysis of Medical Biology (malaria microscopy which consisted in taking blood samples to make thick drops and thin smears), and the data were collected via Kobo software—collect V.2021.2.4 and analyzed by using SPSS.20 software. This study is carried out in the NZABA Health Zone. It is limited to determining the frequency and identifying plasmodial species. Results: After collecting and analyzing the data, we a...
Jun 30, 2022Open Access
The study aims to analyze the determinants of health care seeking in households in Abidjan during an episode of illness. The data for this study came from a household survey in the city of Abidjan. Based on the data collected, univariate and multivariate analyses provided explanatory elements for the population’s health care utilization behaviors and the use and non-use of health services. The results of this research show the predominance of self-medication in the therapeutic use of young peopl...
Jun 28, 2022Open Access
Road traffic accidents concern the countries of the planet. They are responsible for a lot of damage. Motorcycle in the city of Mbuji-Mayi is a means of public transport as well as private, in the majority of cases. We conducted a cross-sectional, retrospective descriptive study, from January 2020 to June 2020, on-road traffic accidents by motorcycle in the city of Mbuji-Mayi. The data were collected at the office of the Congolese National Police, Road Traffic Police Battalion/Kasaï Orienta...
May 27, 2022Open Access
Introduction: Hepatitis B or C virus infection is one of the most common liver infections leading to altered health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients. The goal of this study was to assess the quality of life of patients infected with hepatitis B or C virus and to determine the factors that might be associated with worse outcomes. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in patients aged 18 years and over followed on an outpatient basis at the teaching hospital Hassan II in Fez fo...
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