shield the contents of case notes away from patients which could also lead to a psychological breakdown by the patient and as a result of all these reduce mortality rate in the primary health care centres in Nigeria, an electronic referral system is designed to alleviate all these aforementioned...
ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTRES IN EDO STATE, NIGERIAHendrith Agwinede Esene
The low demand for maternal and child health services is a significant factor in Nigeria's high maternal death rate. This paper explores demand and supply-side determinants at the primary healthcare level, highlighting factors affecting provision and utilization. Methods This qualitative study was unde...
There is a need for comprehensive data on the current state of drug use practices at the primary level of healthcare in Lagos State. The design of the present study was to address these identified gaps. This study aimed to assess drug use in PHCs in Lagos State, Nigeria using the WHO/I...
Objective: To determine the constraints to utilization of maternal health services in the primary health centres in Nnewi Nigeria. Methodology: This was a cross-sectional survey. Using the multi-stage sampling technique 280 women utilizing maternal health services from four randomly selected public ...
Questionnaires were self administered by 372 respondents in 10 Health Centres in 10 Local government areas in Osun State, Nigeria./ppemResults/emem:/em Though the PHC workers' awareness about GMP was high (95.2%), their knowledge of the procedures was however poor with only 49.2%, 30.6% ...
However, the prevalence of clinical and asymptomatic infection among antenatal client (ANC) attendees is largely unknown, especially at primary health care (PHC) level in northern Nigeria. This study assessed the prevalence of fever, malarial parasitemia and anemia among pregnant women attending PHC ...
The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence of mental disorders among attenders at the primary health care centres in the five towns of Ifeloju Local Government Area in Oyo State, Nigeria. In a five-month period in 1991, 865 adults attending the general out-patient clinics were in...
Hence, in response to recommendations by WHO, Nigeria has developed policies for youth-friendly services such as the National Guideline for Integration of Adolescent and Youth-Friendly Services into Primary Healthcare Facilities, and the National Policy on the Health and Development of Adolescents and...
The study was carried out in 2010 as part of a larger multi-country study involving Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda. In Malawi, the study was carried out in two rural districts of Mangochi in the south and Mzimba in the north (Figure 1) where the CDTi strategy for onchocerc...