Anemia is a major public health problem worldwide. It affects mainly preschool children and pregnant women in low-income countries. At the global level, anemia prevalence is over 30%. In sub-Saharan Africa, anemia prevalence levels are not well documented due to inadequate and insufficient techniques used to estimate anemia in the population. However, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), anemia prevalence among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa is estimated at 50%. Most of the anemia is associated with an imbalance between iron intake, utilization and loss that leads to iron deficiency. Malaria, hookworm infestation, deficiency in other nutrients such as vitamin A, folic acid, and B12, and, to some extent, HIV/AIDS, are also important co-factors in sub-Saharan Africa.
The policy provides a simple set of guidelines to enable local level health care managers and providers to make the best decisions they can on what oral health strategies to implement. It is a flexible decision-making framework that enables health managers to adapt the most effective oral health interventions to the specific needs, infrastructure and resources available to each community
Oral Health is central to our daily life and well-being and experts a fundamental influence on the quality of life of every citizen of uganda.
Healthcare waste management (HCWM) in Uganda is well below minimum hygiene standards and as a result, healthcare workers, patients, and communities are exposed to nosocomial infections both within Healthcare Facilities (HCFs) and the surrounding communities. Furthermore, negative impacts on Uganda’s natural resources (air, soil, and water) occur when healthcare wastes are disposed of improperly.
This Policy establishes the enviromental health priorities of the Government of Uganda and provides a frame work for the development of services and programmes at national and local government levels.
In Uganda, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are a public health problem. Although once considered the diseases of the affluent, it is noticeable that NCDs affect even those with low social economic status. The major shift in individuals’ health behaviours and lifestyles especially due to the rapid urbanisation, of once rural communities, has escalated the disease burden. In the current transition, a more convenient lifestyle characterised by use of motorised transport and consumption of fast foods has taken over the past behaviours which could encourage physical activity and consumption of healthy foods. Although the current mortality due to the four major NCDs (cardiovascular diseases
The report contains the best available scientific evidence about strategies to reduce the incidence of spinalcord injury, particularly from traumatic causes. The report also discusses how the health system can respond effectively to people who are injured. Finally, the report discusses how personal adjustment and relationships can be supported, how barriers in the environmentcan be removed, and how individuals with spinal cord injury can gain access to schools, universities and workplaces.
This biennial report has been compiled by FAO and WHO for submission to both the Health Assembly and Conference of FAO (at its 40th session). It outlines progress made in the follow-up actions of the Second International Conference on Nutrition over the course of the period 2015−2016, including key developments at international and country levels.
As these and other stories in the report poignantly illustrate, primary care starts with people.And, integrating mental health services into primary care is the most viable way of ensuring that people have access to the mental health care they need. People can access mental healthservices closer to their homes, thus keeping their families together and maintaining theirdaily activities. In addition, they avoid indirect costs associated with seeking specialist care indistant locations. Mental health services delivered in primary care minimize stigma and discrimination,and remove the risk of human rights violations that occur in psychiatric hospitals.
The terms “hygiene” and “sanitation” can mean different things to different people. For the purposes of this document the term “sanitation” is used to refer to the management of human excreta. The term “hygiene” is used to refer to the behaviours/ measures, including but beyond the management of human faeces, which are used to break the chain of infection transmission in the home and community. Whereas most people recognise that hygiene means “handwashing”, there is some confusion as to what else is involved. In reality, all of the following contribute in some measure to reducing the burden of infectious diseases circulating in the community
Infant mortality is an important indicator of the successful implementation of the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP). This is because the level of infant mortality is a consequence of a broad range of Government interventions.
Violence against children takes many sinister forms. In homes, schools, communities and online around the world, it manifests itself in debilitating physical and emotional abuse. In humanitarian emergencies – especially those driven by relentless armed conflicts – violence can result in death, serious injury and lasting trauma. An insidious sort of violence also affects children when humanitarian emergencies deprive them of health, nutrition, water and sanitation, education and other basic needs.
