Nurses in many resource limited settings have mostly used the medical model which failed to an- swer many of their concerns in managing tuberculosis infected patients. Florence Nightingale’s Model of Nursing and the ...

The environmental and occupational burden of disease is ravaging the global economies, with the combined burden of disease and DALYs constituting at least 25%. This has reached alarming levels in developing countries, ...

Background: Preterm birth is a global problem with the greatest burden experienced in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. In Kenya it is estimatedthat 12.3/100 live births are born preterm and ...

Limited data is available on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), critical illness rate, and in‐hospital mortality in the African setting. This study investigates determinants of critical illness and in‐hospital ...

Introduction: Theoretically, caring relationship between faculty – student generates a caring moment. However, there is a scarcity of empirical evidence about how caring interactions with faculty can enhance students’ ...

Background: Estimately, 70–80% of cancer cases are diagnosed in late stages in Kenya with breast cancer being a common cause of mortality among women where late diagnosis is the major ubiquitous concern. Numerous studies have ...

Objective: To establish the determinants of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine uptake among children brought to Kenyatta National Hospital. Design: A cross-sectional hospital-based quantitative and qualitative study Setting: ...

: Despite advances to targeted leishmanicidal chemotherapy, defies around severe toxicity, recent emergence of resistant variants and absence of rational vaccine still persist. This necessitates search and/or progres‑ sive ...

Background: Conventional targeted leishmanicidal chemotherapy has persistently remained prohibitive for most economically deprived communities due to costs, associated time to accessing health services and duration for ...

Introduction: Although there are several studies conducted on teenage smoking, the causes to become smokers in adolescence remain unclear. Several factors were identified but the extent of its influence still obscure. ...