BACKGROUND Pandemic influenza poses a serious threat to populations in low and lower-middle income countries that face delays in access to health care and inadequately equipped facilities. Oxygen is first-line therapy for influenza-related hypoxia and a standard component of emergency respiratory resuscitation, yet remains a scarce resource in many countries. METHODOLOGY A snapshot survey of ...

BACKGROUND Women's preference to give birth at home is deeply embedded in Ethiopian culture. Many women only go to health facilities if they have complications during birth. Health Extension Workers (HEWs) have been deployed to improve the utilization of maternal health services by bridging the gap between communities and health facilities. This study examined the barriers and facilitators for ...

In Uganda, vaccine dose administration data are often not available or are of insufficient quality to optimally plan, monitor, and evaluate program performance. A collaboration of partners aimed to address these key issues by deploying data improvement teams (DITs) to improve data collection, management, analysis, and use in district health offices and health facilities. During November 2014-Se...

becoming the standard in the life sciences industry rather than the exception. Most facilities are designed to serve more than one purpose. While housing a manufacturing area may be a building’s most important function, it may include a group of labs or warehousing space. These multi-purpose facilities create an interesting challenge. This article examines these challenges and potential solutio...

A construction site represents a conflux of concerns, constantly calling for a broad and multi-criteria approach to solving problems related to site planning and design. As an important part of site planning and design, the objective of site-level facility layout is to allocate appropriate locations and areas for accommodating temporary site-level facilities such as warehouses, job offices, wor...

statement of the problem the incidence of infectious diseases is considerably high among dentists and the team of dental care providers because of frequent exposure to blood and saliva. therefore, infection control regulations must be taken seriously in order to prevent cross-contamination purpose the aim of the present study was to investigate infection control measures in dental offices in ha...

Morgan & Claypool. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Paperback. 124 pages. Dimensions: 9.2in. x 7.5in. x 0.3in.The aim of this book is to supply valid and reasonable parameters in order to guide the choice of the right model of industrial evaporative tower according to operating conditions which vary depending on the particular industrial context: power plants, chemical plants, food processing pl...