April 2012

Quality assurance package for health care in Nigeria: The case of Akwa Ibom State

Persistent poor health care quality attributable to non-responsive alien models necessitated this study to develop quality assurance package (QAP) for health care in Nigeria with focus on Akwa Ibom State. Quality assurance index (QAI) was the instrument for data collection. A multi-stage random sample of 340 respondents was drawn from 840 health managers in primary health care settings in the state. The research and...

Author(s): Maria Michael Ikorok, Idongesit Ibanga Akapbio and Lucas O. Ogunjimi

April 2012

Curbing maternal and child mortality: The Nigerian experience

The paper examined the unacceptable high maternal and child mortality in Africa using Nigeria as a case study. Place and duration of study were the Department of Human Kinetics and Health Education, University of Calabar, and Department of Public Health Nursing, College of Health Technology, Calabar, Nigeria, between February, 2010 and April, 2011. The opportunity created by the presence of over 300 Nurses at the 2010...

Author(s): Ogunjimi Lucas Olusegun, Ibe, Rosemary Thomas and Ikorok Maria Micheal

April 2012

Low birth weight knowledge among postnatal mothers in a resource restricted urban setting in Zimbabwe

This study aimed to establish the knowledge of postnatal mothers about low birth weight (LBW) in a resource restricted urban setting. A non-experimental descriptive study was conducted using a systematic sampling method to select fifty mothers aged between 15 and 41 years with babies below five years born with LBW of below 2500 grams. The women were selected as they sought health care at Mabvuku Satellite Clinic in...

Author(s): Helen Vupenyu Gundani and Jesca Mutowo