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Workplace violence in the road passeger transport sector in Maputi cinty, Mozambique: extent, causes, consequences and prevention
Background: Every year millions of workers around the world are victims of workplace violence (WPV). Globally, WPV is a major occupational health and safety hazard, and it has been regarded as a public health problem. There is no WPV preventive program specifically designed for low-income countries (LICs...
Estudo dos aspectos soroepidemiológicos e imunológicos da infecção pelo vírus da hepatite b (hbv) em pacientes infectados pelo vírus da imunodeficiência humana (hiv) atendidos no centro de saúde do alto-maé, maputo-moçambique
A hepatite é uma doença infecciosa que constitui um problema de saúde pública mundial. Deentre os diferentes vírus que causam hepatite, o vírus da hepatite B (HBV),representa uma das maiores causas mundiais de hepatite crónica, cirrose e carcinoma hepatocelular, apesar da vacina para hepatite B es...
Relatório de avaliação do desempenho do programa de malária de moçambique
Falciparum malaria and HIV-1 in hospitalized adults in Maputo, Mozambique: does HIV-infection obscure the malaria diagnosis?
Malar. j. (Online); 7 (252), 2008
Background: The potential impact of HIV-1 on falciparum malaria has been difficult to determine
because of diagnostic problems and insufficient epidemiological data.
Methods: In a prospective, cross-sectional study, clinical and laboratory data was registered
consecutively for all adults admitted to a me...
Risk factors for incomplete vaccination and missed opportunity for immunization in rural Mozambique
BMC public health (Online); 8 (161), 2008
Background
Inadequate levels of immunization against childhood diseases remain a significant public health problem in resource-poor areas of the globe. Nonetheless, the reasons for incomplete vaccination and non-uptake of immunization services are poorly understood. This study aimed at finding out the re...
Catchment Area, Health, Child, Preschool, Cluster Analysis, Immunization Programs/statistics & numerical data, d0071140, ddcs0256580, Health Services Accessibility/statistics & numerical data, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Maternal-Child Health Centers/statistics & numerical data, Risk Factors, Rural Health Services/statistics & numerical data, Vaccination/statistics & numerical data
Malaria in rural Mozambique. Part II: children admitted to hospital
Malar. j. (Online); 7 (37), 2008
Background: Characterization of severe malaria cases on arrival to hospital may lead to early recognition and improved management. Minimum community based-incidence rates (MCBIRs) complement hospital data, describing the malaria burden in the community. Methods: A retrospective analysis of all admitted m...
Malaria in rural Mozambique. Part I: children attending the outpatient clinic
Malar. j. (Online); 7 (36), 2008
Background: Malaria represents a huge burden for the health care services across Africa. Describing malaria attending health services contributes to quantify the burden and describe the epidemiology and clinical presentation.
Methods: Retrospective analysis of data collected through the Manhiça morbidit...
Malaria, Falciparum/diagnosis, Plasmodium falciparum/isolation & purification, Rural Health Services/statistics & numerical data, Malaria, Falciparum/therapy, Malaria, Falciparum/epidemiology, Malaria, Falciparum/prevention & control, Ambulatory Care Information Systems/statistics & numerical data, Risk Factors, Mozambique/epidemiology
Genotipagem utilizando a sequencia de inserção IS6110 e "spoligotyping" de mycobacterium tuberculosis isolados de pacientes infectados pelo hiv, em moçambique, africa
A tuberculose é a principal causa de morte no mundo entre as doenças infecciosas, produzindo 2 milhões de óbitos ao ano. Estima-se que um terço da população mundial esteja infectada pelo Mycobacterium tuberculosis, ou seja, 1,7 bilhões de pessoas. Em países africanos, o problema da tuberculose e...
The role of micronutrients and co infection in pulmonary tuberculosis. a randomized controlled trial in mwanza, tanzania
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the World s major public health problems with one third of the world’s population being infected, and each year eight million new cases of TB develop with three million new cases 80% occur in sub-Saharan Africa with 30-70% of the TB patients being HIV infected .HIV is recogn...