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Jan 19, 2020Open Access
Background: Usage of family planning services in developing countries has been found to avert unintended pregnancies, and drastically reduce maternal and child mortality. Men as the main decision-makers in most of African families have an important role to play towards acceptance of family planning methods; however, its usage still remains low. The primary ob-jective of this study was to investigate ...
Jan 19, 2020Open Access
Introduction: Road traffic crashes are a significant public health challenge in view of the high morbidity and mortality for which they are responsible. Objective: This study aims to describe the frequency and profile of road traffic crashes in the city of Lubumbashi. Methods: A retrospective descrip-tive study was conducted between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2017. Included are all cases of vehicles registe ...
Jan 17, 2020Open Access
Introduction: The objectives of our study were to determine providers by structure, to determine the providers by age, to make recommendations improve the motivation of the human resources and finally to determine the factors that influence the motivation of the personnel in the HGR of the city of Lubumbashi. Methodology: This is a cross-sectional analytical descriptive study of 152 care providers from f ...
Nov 26, 2019Open Access
Background: As early as 2008 there was a call by the United Nations Secretary General to halt malaria death by ensuring universal coverage of malaria inter-ventions to be attained by 2010. This was echoed by the World Health Assem-bly in 2015 by adopting the Global Technical Strategy or malaria 2016-2030 with universal access to malaria prevention, diagnosis and treatment as one of its three pillars. This study had a critical look ...
Nov 07, 2019Open Access
Introduction: Different forms of cultural practices are being practiced in Nigeria and other parts of the world. Some of such are beneficial while others lead to negative impacts. Female genital mutilation as one type of harmful traditional practices is a form of violence against women. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), practiced in many parts of the world, also known as female circumcision or female genital cutting (F ...
Oct 31, 2019Open Access
Introduction: The hospital is a key part of the health system. The referral gen-eral hospital is the local health system’s appeal structure and therefore its or-ganization determines the quality of the supply that a community needs to meet its health needs. Méthodology: We carried out a transversal descriptive study on the level of application of the organizational framework in the general hospitals of reference ...
Oct 31, 2019Open Access
Introduction: Road accidents constitute a major public health problem with regard to the costs generated by this phenomenon. Methodology: We con-ducted a cross-sectional descriptive study of Road traffic accidents in the city of Manono, an urban-rural area, with the aim of understanding this phenome-non in a highly suburbanized environment, characterized by artisanal exploita-tion of among others lithium ...
Oct 23, 2019Open Access
In this article, we reviewed and analyzed the literature on mental health sur-veillance and early warning of mental disorders, in particular, systematically reviewed the progress and methods of mental health surveillance and early warning of mental disorders. This article provides a basis for early warning and monitoring of mental disorders in the future, and provides psychiatrists and community doctors with reference methods for ...
Oct 14, 2019Open Access
Objective: Mbujimayi like the other African cities where the environmental, social and economic problems, promote the development of urban pathology, several factors limit or promote access to quality health care services especially for slum dwellers. The objective of this study was to analyze factors associated with seeking care in this city. Material and Methods: This study was conducted in 2010 on the therapeutic use in six hea ...
Sep 30, 2019Open Access
Lipoma is the most common soft tissue tumor, considered the universal tumor in the body. The differential diagnosis of a lipoma in the groin will include groin hernias, safina varex, lymphadenopathy, hydrocele and sarcoma. Due to the similarity of clinical symptoms and signs, the differentiation between inguinal, femoral hernias and groin lipoma is difficult. To avoid the high risk of intraoperative complica ...
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