A retrospective review of hospital and available community records of 47 children undergoing orchidopexy in a district hospital was undertaken to determine adequacy of screening for cryptorchidism and factors associated with late referral. Twenty eight of these boys were previously examined on 108 occasions. Diagnosis was missed on 32 occasions and the record of 38 clinical examinations did not...

BACKGROUND Intervention coverage and funding for the control of malaria in Africa has increased in recent years, however, there are few descriptions of changing disease burden and the few reports available are from isolated, single site observations or are of reports at country-level. Here we present a nationwide assessment of changes over 10 years in paediatric malaria hospitalization across K...

objective: to assess the prevalence and practice of fertility regulation methods among remote ethiopian communities of the hamer district, southern ethiopia. materials and methods: community-based cross sectional study was conducted in hamer district of south regional state of ethiopia. the study populations were women of reproductive age group residing in the district and purposively identifie...

the goal of this research is the derivation of method for evaluation of efficiency improvement potential for district heating systems with focus on variable speed centrifugal pump. the effectiveness of the usage of the proportional pressure control is compared with the constant pressure control. this is why, energy calculation analyses have been realized for variable speed centrifugal pumps, an...

BACKGROUND The cornerstone of the health system in Zimbabwe, the district health system has been under the responsibility of the district health executive since 1984. Preliminary information obtained from some provincial health managers in Midlands Province suggested a poor performance by most district health executives. We therefore investigated the reasons for this poor performance. METHODS...

Fleur Lowe, RGN, DipHE, BSc, Senior Nurse, Patient At-Risk Team, Salisbury District Hospital, UK (✉) Paul Fulbrook, MSc, BSc(Hons), PGDE, RGN, DPSN, Clinical Reader in Critical Care, Bournemouth University, and Directorate of Nursing, Salisbury District Hospital, UK Helen Aldridge, RGN, DipHE, Senior Staff Nurse, ICU, Radnor ICU/HDU, Salisbury District Hospital, UK Sharon Fox, RGN, DipHE, Senio...

in recent decades, urban planning has tended to humanist urbanism. in this regard foot travels and bicycle use are the two strategies that urban planners and transportation engineers are using them as adequate alternatives for making cities more people friendly. using bicycle is known as a strategy that has a great role in decreasing traffic among developing countries in recent decades. these c...

BACKGROUND District and sub-district pharmacist positions were created during health sector reform in South Africa. High prevalence of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and increasing chronic non-communicable diseases have drawn attention to their pivotal roles in improving accessibility and appropriate use of medicines at the primary level. This research describes new roles and related competencies of di...

Sec.A1431.001.AADEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1)AA"Anticipation note" means a note issued under this chapter. (2)AA"Eligible countywide district" means a flood control district or a hospital district the boundaries of which are substantially coterminous with the boundaries of a county with a population of three million or more or a hospital district created in a county with a population of mor...