Browsing by Author "Bongomin Pido"

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Competing Demands and Limited Resources in the Context of War, Poverty and Disease: the Case of Lacor Hospital
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2003) Accorsi Sandro; Corrado Bruno; Massimo Fabiani; Iriso Robert; Nattabi Barbara; Ayella Odong Emintone; Ogwang Martin; Onek Paul Awil; Bongomin Pido; Declich Silvia
Difficult choices have to be made among competing demands for health care in the context of severely limited resources and persistent humanitarian crisis prevailing in Northern Uganda. In particular, the challenge of a burden of disease from largely preventable and treatable conditions, the spread of emerging or re-emerging infections, the appearance of new, previously unknown, diseases (such as Ebola), and the heavy burden of poverty and war on health, make it imperative for getting information for identifying priorities and for decision making. However, major information gaps exist, and the little data available has been provided from scattered surveys and from incomplete reporting systems. In this context, readily available information collected using standardized procedures, such as data from hospital discharge records, becomes extremely important, in that these data can provide useful indications on the health situation at a low cost, in a long-term, sustainable way. This study is based on 155,205 medical records of inpatients admitted to the Lacor Hospital during the period 1992-2002, and its objective is to describe the health profile of the population of Northern Uganda, in order to estimate the impact of war, poverty, and social disruption in terms of morbidity and mortality. It analyses also the performance of Lacor Hospital in coping with this emergency situation, exploring pathways and mechanisms that link disease patterns, hospital performance, quality of care, and health outcomes, therefore providing an example of the thinking process leading from information to decision to action.
Conceptual modeling of nodding syndrome: a system dynamics and sequence approaches
(The Centre for Democracy, Research and Development (CEDRED), 2017-06) Ongaya Kizito; Ssemaluulu Paul Mukasa; Oyo Benedict; Bongomin Pido
Conceptual modelling of nodding syndrome (NS) has hardly been considered in most scientific literature although symptoms of the disease has been widely studied. A conceptual model is a representation of hypothesis about a system under investigation and enables a comparison between hypothesis and data. Since nodding syndrome is an unexplained neurological illness that mainly affects children aged between 5 to 15 years, without specific diagnosis and treatment, the aetiology remains unknown and under investigation, conceptual modelling may be a crucial ingredient in understanding the disease. Purpose of the Study: The purpose of the study is therefore, to represent nodding syndrome occurrence and immune-pathogenic pathways in the causation of nodding syndrome using system dynamics approaches. Methodology: We have used systematic review method to filter literature on nodding syndrome from the year. We also used Systems Dynamic Approach and we emphasized confirmed scientific investigation to enable the relationships conform to reality. Vensim software was preferred for implementation of the casual-loop diagrams. Microsoft Office Visio 2007 was identified as suitable for implementation of the sequence conceptual model of nodding syndrome for its ability to show interactions between electrolytes and other actors. Findings: Our findings were that system dynamics approach has not been used research of nodding syndrome. More so, conceptual modeling were not considered by most articles.
Conceptual modeling of nodding syndrome: A system dynamics and sequence approaches
(Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies, 2018) Ongaya Kizito; Ssemaluulu Paul Mukasa; Oyo Benedict; Bongomin Pido
Conceptual modelling of nodding syndrome (NS) has hardly been considered in most scientific literature although symptoms of the disease have been widely studied. A conceptual model is a representation of hypothesis about a system under investigation and enables a comparison between hypothesis and data. Since nodding syndrome is an unexplained neurological illness that mainly affects children aged between 5 to 15 years, without specific diagnosis and treatment, the aetiology remains unknown and under investigation, conceptual modelling may be a crucial ingredient in understanding the disease. The purpose of the study is therefore, to represent nodding syndrome occurrence and immune-pathogenic pathways in the causation of nodding syndrome using system dynamics approaches. We have used systematic review method to filter literature on nodding syndrome from the year. We also used Systems Dynamic Approach and we emphasized confirmed scientific investigation to enable the relationships conform to reality. Vensim software was preferred for implementation of the casual-loop diagrams. Microsoft Office Visio 2007 was identified as suitable for implementation of the sequence conceptual model of nodding syndrome for its ability to show interactions between electrolytes and other actors. Our findings were that system dynamics approach has not been used research of nodding syndrome. More so, conceptual modeling was not considered by most articles.
Conceptual Modeling of Nodding Syndrome: A System Dynamics and Sequence Approaches
(2017) Ssemalulu Paul; Oyo Benedict; Bongomin Pido; Ongaya Kizito
Conceptual modelling of nodding syndrome (NS) has hardly been considered in most scientific literature although symptoms of the disease has been widely studied. A conceptual model is a representation of hypothesis about a system under investigation and enables a comparison between hypothesis and data. Since nodding syndrome is an unexplained neurological illness that mainly affects children aged between 5 to 15 years, without specific diagnosis and treatment, the aetiology remains unknown and under investigation, conceptual modelling may be a crucial ingredient in understanding the disease. The purpose of the study is therefore, to represent nodding syndrome occurrence and immune-pathogenic pathways in the causation of nodding syndrome using system dynamics approaches. We have used systematic review method to filter literature on nodding syndrome from the year. We also used Systems Dynamic Approach and we emphasized confirmed scientific investigation to enable the relationships conform to reality. Vensim software was preferred for implementation of the casual-loop diagrams. Microsoft Office Visio 2007 was identified as suitable for implementation of the sequence conceptual model of nodding syndrome for its ability to show interactions between electrolytes and other actors. Findings: Our findings were that system dynamics approach has not been used research of nodding syndrome. More so, conceptual modeling were not considered by most articles.