Health and Wellbeing: Recent submissions
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Assessing the Readiness to Provide Integrated Management of Cardiovascular Diseases and Type 2 Diabetes in Kenya: Results From a National Survey
(PubMed CentralGlobal Heart Journal, 2023)Integrated chronic disease management is the desired core function of a responsive healthcare system. However, many challenges surround its implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa. The current study assessed the readiness of ... -
Perceptions of the Influence of a Mobile Phone-Based Messaging Platform on Caregiver ECD Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices: A Qualitative Exploration in an Informal Settlement in Nairobi.
(BioMed CentralNational Instututes of HealthResearchGate, 2023)Programs supporting initiatives for children younger than three years are inadequate and not accessible to many families, particularly in resource-limited settings. Many primary caregivers have little knowledge on how to ... -
Community Advisory Committee as a Facilitator of Health and Wellbeing: A Qualitative Study in Informal Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
(Frontiers in Public HealthPubmed Central, 2023)A range of community engagement initiatives to advance health and wellbeing are currently taking place in informal settlements in low and middle income countries (LMICs), including community and stakeholder meetings, use ... -
Correlates of Intimate Partner Violence among Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Household Survey in Blantyre District, Malawi
(BioMed CentralPubMed Central, 2023)Despite efforts from the government and developmental partners to eliminate gender-based violence, intimate partner violence (IPV) remains a pervasive global health and human rights problem, affecting up to 753 million ... -
Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity and Associated Patterns of Healthcare Utilization and Quality of Life: Results from the Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) Wave 2 in Ghana.
(PubMed CentralPLOS Global Public Health, 2023)Understanding the patterns of multimorbidity, defined as the co-occurrence of more than one chronic condition, is important for planning health system capacity and response. This study assessed the association of different ... -
A Socio-Ecological Framework Examination of Drivers of Blood Pressure Control Among Patients With Comorbidities and on Treatment in Two Nairobi Slums; a Qualitative Study
(PubMed CentralPLOS Global Public Health, 2023)Despite the known and effective treatments to control blood pressure, there is limited information on why there are high uncontrolled hypertension rates in urban slum settings. The aim of this paper is to explore the views ... -
Socio-Ecological Factors Associated With Probable Depression Among Pregnant and Parenting Adolescent Girls: Findings From a Cross-Sectional Study in Burkina Faso and Malawi.
(BioMed CentralResearchGateNIH, 2023)Pregnant and parenting adolescent girls are at risk of poor mental health because of stigma and social exclusion. Despite one in four girls starting childbearing by the age of 19 in Africa, no study, to the best of our ... -
"They Talked to Me Rudely". Women's Perspectives on Quality of Post-Abortion Care in Public Health Facilities in Kenya
(BioMed CentralNational Instututes of Health, 2023)Access to abortion is legally restricted and socially reproved in Kenya. Therefore, women requiring abortion in such restrictive contexts resort to unsafe methods that result in complications, often requiring treatment in ... -
Association of Women's Empowerment with Anaemia and Haemoglobin Concentration in Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Multilevel Analysis
(PubMed CentralResearchGate, 2023)We assessed the associations between women's empowerment and anaemia and haemoglobin concentration among children (6-59 months) in 31 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. We included 72,032 mother-child pairs from Demographic ... -
"I Wasn't Sure It Would Work. I Was Just Trying": An Ethnographic Study on the Choice of Abortion Methods Among Young Women in Kilifi County, Kenya, and Atlantique Department, Benin.
(BioMed CentralResearchGate, 2023)Despite the increased availability of safe abortion methods in sub-Saharan Africa, women and girls continue to use unsafe abortion methods and procedures to terminate their unwanted pregnancies, resulting in severe ...
