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Foetal Position: Can It Be Used to Predict the Sex of Unborn Baby?
(Scientific Research, 2021-01-14)
Sex is used to define the biological categorization of a human being as either a
male or female. Globally, most of the pregnant women have expressed desire
to know the sex of their babies prenatally. To determine sex of ...
Factors affecting health seeking behaviour in hypertensive patients of Imenti North sub county, Kenya
(2021-01-14)
Background: Prevalence of non-communicable diseases like hypertension is raising hence a burden to low resource countries like Kenya. Purpose of the study was to determine factors affecting health seeking behaviour in ...
Corona Virus Disease among Pregnant Women: A Systematic Scoping Review
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2020-05)
Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a deadly respiratory viral disease
that started in China in the year 2019 before spreading to the world. It affects
everybody regardless of race, religion, social economic status ...
Cervical cancer screening during the COVID-19 Crisis: Africa view point
(eCancer, 2020-05)
There are approximately 570,000 cases of cervical cancer and 311,000 deaths from cervical cancer globally (1). Approximately 70% of cancer deaths occur in low and middle income countries and cervical cancer is the most ...
Effects of female genital mutilation on physical, social and psychological health of the victims
(EuroSciCon, 2018-06)
Female circumcision also known as female genital mutilation
(FGM), involves none medical cutting or removal of some parts or the entire external female genitalia. FGM is known to cause
physical health problems such as ...
Barriers to Immediate Post-Partum Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Device Uptake among Mothers Delivering at Meru Hospital
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2019-03)
Global contraceptive use is at 64%, Africa lagging behind at 33.4%. Kenya has
an unmet need for family planning at 23%. Hormonal injections are the most
used in Africa at 9.8% and Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Devices at ...
Facilitators to Immediate Post Partum Intra Uterine Contraceptive Device Uptake among Mothers Delivering in Meru Hospital
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2019-04)
Family planning allows people to attain their desired number of children and
determine the spacing of pregnancies. It is important to promote uptake of
family planning services because it is one of the four pillars of ...
Impact of Advanced Practice Nurses and Midwives on Patients’ Outcomes: A Systematic Review
(2020-06)
Background: Advanced practice nursing and midwifery education was introduced globally and in
Kenya with an objective of introducing high quality nursing and midwifery care services that would
result to improved patients ...