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A spatial database of health facilities managed by the public health sector in sub Saharan Africa Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Health facilities form a central component of health systems, providing curative and preventative services and structured to allow referral through a pyramid of increasingly complex service provision. Access to health care is a complex and multidimensional concept, however, in its most narrow sense, it refers to geographic availability. Linking health facilities to populations has been a traditional per capita index of heath care coverage, ...
Essays on household economics in Sub Saharan Africa Universiteit Antwerpen
All three essays that constitute this thesis empirically analyse various areas of household decision and human development: education, health and gender equality, in this very order. Using a compilation of 86 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) rounds from 34 countries, Chapter 2 assesses the impact of household fertility on children schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Exploiting plausible exogeneity of twins birth to address endogeneity of ...
Field implementation and evaluation of novel isothermal, nucleic acid–based diagnostic tools for malaria elimination in sub Saharan Africa Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Malaria transmission occurs in all six World Health Organization (WHO) regions, with an estimated 3.2 billion people in 97 countries and territories at risk of being infected and developing disease in 2013. Currently used diagnostic tests, microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), do not accurately detect low-density and asymptomatic infections, which contribute to disease transmission. Molecular methods such as polymerase chain reaction ...
Chronic illness in sub Saharan Africa Universiteit Antwerpen
Chronic illness is a common but very much neglected health problem in sub Saharan Africa. People suffer from longstanding pain and symptoms caused by ‘incurable’ conditions like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, kidney failure. In the last decade, the numerous AIDS patients have joined this group. Their main and common problem is a longstanding, progressively debilitating condition, which silently undermines their physical and mental health and ...
Parasitic diseases: a neglected problem in village poultry in Sub- Saharan Africa Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Stroke characterization in Sun Saharan Africa: Congolese population Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Background: Stroke is the second cause of death worldwide and over than 80% of deaths occurs in developing countries. However, its characteristics in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are poorly defined. This study aimed to describe the key features of stroke in a hospital population of Kinshasa in DRC and to assess the frequency of cardiovascular risk factors and their impact on target organs.
Methods: A descriptive study was ...
Methods: A descriptive study was ...
Context-based blended learning models and implementation in Sub- Saharan Africa: A literature review Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Technological innovations such as learning management system (LMS), content management system (CMS) and Internet use in higher education have changed the previous teaching and learning pedagogies. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), such innovative pedagogies have opened a new era as such LMS and CMS are used to support blended learning. Though innovative pedagogy has opened significant queries among researchers on how well student acquires knowledge ...
Effects of malaria/helminthic coinfections on cervical cancer progression among sub Saharan African women on highly active antiretroviral therapy : a scoping review Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen
In Africa, the HIV prevalence in rural areas has begun to reach levels estimated within urban settings, where women are also more at risk for both malaria and intestinal parasitic infections. The objective of this review is to assess whether concomitant infections with malaria and/or helminthic diseases have an impact on cervical disease progression in women on HAART. This scoping review was conducted in August 2018. To conduct this scoping ...