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Accidents and Poisoning. In: Primary Health Care: A manual for medical students and other health workers
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An account of a recent outbreak of Marek's Disease in Kenya
(University of Nairobi,Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,, 2001)Data was collected from a number of flocks following an outbreak of Marek's disease in Thika, Kiambu and Nairobi, in 1997. Clinically, the disease presented as a rapid emaciation and depression followed by death. Weekly ... -
Accountability and Health Care Marketization in Kenya: Why Reform Public Law
(University of Nairobi, 2005)A recent attempt by the Ministry of Health to establish a mandatory social health insurance scheme was vehemently opposed by various inter-est. groups, culminating in the withdrawal of the National Social Health Insurance ... -
Accountability And Inaction: NGOs And Resource Lodging In Development
(2010)From the late 1980s, research on NGOs had a normative focus and was vulnerable to changing donor preoccupations. This article contributes a new conceptual approach, analysing the practices through which relationships and ... -
The accountability for reasonableness approach to guide priority setting in health systems within limited resources – findings from action research at district level in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia.
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Background Priority-setting decisions are based on an important, but not sufficient set of values and thus lead to disagreement on priorities. Accountability for Reasonableness (AFR) is an ethics-based approach to a ... -
Accountability of experts in the Danish national park process
(University of Nairobi.Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies, 2009)In 2002 the Danish Minister of Environment initiated a process to investigate the possibilities of establishing national parks in Denmark. For this purpose experts were mobilised to investigate the status and potentials ... -
Accountable priority setting for trust in health systems - the need for research into a new approach for strengthening sustainable health action in developing countries
(2009)Despite multiple efforts to strengthen health systems in low and middle income countries, intended sustainable improvements in health outcomes have not been shown. To date most priority setting initiatives in health systems ... -
Accountable priority setting for trust in health systems - the need for research into a new approach for strengthening sustainable health action in developing countries
(2009)Despite multiple efforts to strengthen health systems in low and middle income countries, intended sustainable improvements in health outcomes have not been shown. To date most priority setting initiatives in health systems ... -
Accountable priority setting for trust in health systems - the need for research into a new approach for strengthening sustainable health action in developing countries
(2009-10-24)Abstract Despite multiple efforts to strengthen health systems in low and middle income countries, intended sustainable improvements in health outcomes have not been shown. To date most priority ... -
Accountancy - The Making of Professional Accountants
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Accounting for areal and temporal differences using decomposition procedures: an illustration
(Department of Population Studies and Research Institute, University of Nairobi, 2000)This paper illustrates in details how to use decomposition procedures to account for areal and temporal differences in the level of mortality, using the case of infant mortality in Kenya. Logistic regression is used to ... -
Accumulation of DDT residues in aquarium fish, sediment, plant and water," Accepted, J. Environment International.
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Accumulation of fluoride in plants and vegetables
(Department of Chemistry, 1994)Fluoride in plant and vegetable samples has beendetermined using the ion selective electrode.The analysis was carried out after ashingthe samples onan open flame, adding perchloric acid and allowing the hydrogen fluoride ... -
Accumulation Of Nitrogen And Phosphorous By Vetiver Grass (Chrysopogon Zizanioides) In A Model Constructed Wetland Treatment System For Polishing Municipal Wastewater
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Kenya is classified as water scarce country yet the existing fresh water resources are under constant threat of pollution resulting from wastewater inflows. Wastewater contains nitrates and phosphates that stimulate excessive ... -
Accumulation, distribution and Metabolism of 14C-1, 1-Trichloro-2, 2- bis-(p-Chlorophyenly) ethane (ppDDT) residues in model tropical marine ecosystem
(School of education, 2002-11)Accumulation, distribution and metabolism of ring labelled, "C-1,1,1, - trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane (p,p'-DDT) in a model marine aquatic ecosystem consisting of sea water, sediment, oysters (Isognomonon alatus) ... -
Accuracy of abdominal ultrasonography and the role of a second investigation in surgical obstructive jaundice.
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1989)The diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonography (US) was evaluated in delineating the site and cause of biliary obstruction in 59 patients of surgical obstructive jaundice (SOJ). A final analysis of the ultrasonographic data ... -
Accuracy of an anaemia scoring chart applied on goats in sub-humid Kenya and its potential for control of Haemonchus contortus infections
(ElsevierDepartment of Veterinary Pathology, Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Nairobi, 2006-11)We tested the practical application of an anaemia scoring chart (the FAMACHA© chart) as a method for controlling Haemonchus contortus in goats kept under smallholder conditions in a sub-humid area of Central Kenya. The ...