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Surgical Care Needs of Low-resource Populations: An Estimate of the Prevalence of Surgically Treatable Conditions and Avoidable Deaths in 48 Countries
(Elsevier Science Inc , Ste 800, 230 Park Ave, New York, Usa, Ny, 10169, 2015)Background Surgical care needs in low-resource countries are increasingly recognised as an important aspect of global health, yet data for the size of the problem are insufficient. The Surgeons OverSeas Assessment of ... -
Survival after first presentation with endomyocardial fibrosis
(British Heart Journal, 1972)Forty-six cases of necropsy endomyocardial fibrosis are analysed and presented with the objective of determining their prognosis after first symptoms of the disease. Survival from first symptoms ranged from 12 days to 12 ... -
Survival Fate’ or ‘Livelihood Option’? :
(2016-03)Uganda boasts of her natural resource wealth by day, and groans over its mismanagement by nightfall! Expectation and suspicion paradoxically typify the state of affairs of Uganda’s natural resource stock; flora, fauna and ... -
Sustainable Development for Uganda: A Switch to Followership Model
(The Pennsylvania State University, 2020)Leadership, as a habit of thinking, assumes the alpha and omega position for pursuance of sustainable development in Uganda. However, what if we considered followership first? Using literature review, a conceptual framework, ... -
Sustainable Energy Transitions in Sub-Saharan African Cities: The Role of Local Government
(Elsiever, 2018)Sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing fast, and by 2040 the population of the subcontinent is expected to be predominantly urban, placing a vastly increased burden on urban governance. Energy futures modeling indicates that 75% ... -
Sustainable Energy Transitions: Changing the ‘Business as Usual’ Trajectory in Sub-Saharan African Urban Areas
(The Center for African Development Policy Research, 2018)This paper describes a novel approach to helping municipal authorities address the sustainable energy challenges associated with rapidly growing urban populations in Sub-Saharan Africa. Population in Africa is expected to ... -
Symptom Appraisal, Help-seeking and Perceived Barriers to Healthcare Seeking in Uganda: An Exploratory Study Among Women With Potential Symptoms of Breast and Cervical Cancer
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2021-01-19)Objective We assessed the process of recognising abnormal bodily changes, interpretations and attributions, and help-seeking behaviour among community-based Ugandan women with possible symptoms of breast and cervical cancer, ... -
Symptomatic Presentation With Cervical Cancer in Uganda: A Qualitative Study Assessing the Pathways to Diagnosis in a Low-Income Country
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2015-02-18)Background Symptomatic cervical cancer patients in low- and middle-income countries usually present with late stage disease and have poor survival. We explored the views of cervical cancer patients on their symptom appraisal ... -
A system dynamics tool for IT investments.
(Fountain Publishers, 2006-01-01)Systems dynamics modeling is the technique of constructing and running a model of an abstract system in order to study its behavior without disrupting the environment of the real system. The process simulated in this study, ... -
Systematic Review of Surgical Literature From Resource-limited Countries: Developing Strategies for Success
(Springer , One New York Plaza, Suite 4600 , New York, United States, Ny, 10004, 2015)Background Injuries and surgical diseases are leading causes of global mortality. We sought to identify successful strategies to augment surgical capacity and research endeavors in low-income countries (LIC’s) based on ... -
‘Talk what others think you can’t talk’: HIV/AIDS clubs as peer education in Ugandan schools
(Compare, 2007)The clubs will do peer education; the clubs will be a forum for affected students to share their experiences. (HIV/AIDS Technical Advisor, Ministry of Education, 4 October 2004) The clubs extend what we do in the ... -
Targeting IDPs with Food AID: WFP Assistance in Northern Uganda
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations (UN) agency responding to humanitarian emergencies by delivering food aid to vulnerable populations worldwide. The protracted insurgency in northern Uganda resulted in ... -
Teacher and Administrator Perceptions of Peace Education in Milwaukee (US) Catholic Schools
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2021-11-08)Often intersecting with systemic inequity and injustice, young people’s exposure to community violence has been linked to a myriad of developmental impacts. A growing literature demonstrates the potential of peace education ... -
Teacher Motivation and Teacher Commitment to Work: a Case Study of Government Aided Secondary Schools in Masaka Municipality, Uganda
(Contemporary Research Center, 2020-02)Motivation breeds commitment to work in any institution of learning. Consequently, this study investigated the role of motivation on teacher commitment to work in government Aided Secondary Schools in Masaka Municipality, ... -
Teaching reading and writing in local language using the child-centred pedagogy in Uganda
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-11-04)Uganda introduced the use of mother tongue as medium of instruction in primary schools in 2007. This was meant to promote interaction and participation in the learning process and improve children's proficiency in reading ... -
Tech-Based Enterprise Control and Audit for Financial Crimes: The Case of State-Owned Global Financial Predators (SOGFP)
(IGI Global, 2021-03)Due to the global financial and societal crisis, a societal or business transformation project is important. A well-designed financial services automation process is the need of the hour. This automation process depends ... -
Technical efficiency in the presence of desirable and undesirable outputs: a case study of selected district referral hospitals in Uganda.
(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2008-04)The general practice in technical efficiency measurement for health providers has been to ignore additional products of most transformation processes that can be classified as “undesirable outputs” — which are a subset of ... -
Technology and Architecture Education in Uganda
(The Architectural Science Association ANZAScA, 2006)Architecture education is a relatively new undertaking in Uganda. Despite this opportunity to develop an updated curriculum and pedagogy, an old paradigm continues to persist; isolating the teaching of architectural ... -
Television as a Stimulus for Emotion Response among Young People: Case of Assam University Students
(International Journal for Social Studies, 2018-05)In 1976, George Gerbner and Gross developed cultivation theory which is vital in television studies. The theory states that the heavy viewer of television violent content is eventually affected by Mean World Syndrome; ... -
Temporal relationship between attitude toward mathematics and mathematics achievement
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-11-13)This study examined the temporal relationship between attitude toward mathematics and mathematics achievement among first year secondary (i.e. middle) school students (grade 7, about 14–15 years) with a focus on sex ...