Health insurance education strategies for increasing the insured among older population – a quasi experimental study in rural Kenya

Josephat Nyagero, Roslyn Gakure, Margaret Keraka, Peter Wanzala

The older population in most developing countries are uninsured and lack access to health services. This study assessed the extent to which a multi-strategy health insurance education intervention would increase the number of insured among the older population in rural Kenya. The quasi-experiment ...

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Prevalence and risk factors for zoonotic helminth infection among humans and animals - Jos, Nigeria, 2005-2009

Pius Stephen Ekong, Raymond Juryit, Ndahi Mwapu Dika, Patrick Nguku, Monica Musenero

Zoonotic infections are among the most common on earth and are responsible for over 60% of human infectious diseases, some of which are caused by helminth parasites. Infection may result from ingestion of infective stage of worms with food, contaminated soil; skin penetration or direct animal conta ...

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A United Nation high level meeting on chronic non-communicable diseases: utility for Africa?

Justin Basile Echouffo-Tcheugui, Andre-Pascal Kengne - 16 April 2012

Africa faces an important but seemingly “neglected epidemic” of chronic non-communicable diseases (NDCs). In many countries in this part of the world, morbidity and mortality related to NCDs such as diabetes, hypertension, ischemic heart disease and stroke have alarmingly increased over....

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Missed opportunity for tuberculosis case detection in household contacts in a high burden setting

Juliet Nabbuye Sekandi, Hassard Sempeera, Justin List, Christopher Whalen

Contact investigation remains an essential component of tuberculosis (TB) control, yet missed opportunities to trace, medically examine, and treat close contacts of newly diagnosed index TB cases pers..

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