scholarly journals Impact of environmental factors on the spread of dengue fever in Sri Lanka

Author(s):  
M. O. Faruk ◽  
S. N. Jannat ◽  
Md. S. Rahman
2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Senanayake AM Kularatne ◽  
Kosala GAD Weerakoon ◽  
Ruwan Munasinghe ◽  
Udaya K Ralapanawa ◽  
Manoji Pathirage

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Ashby ◽  
Max Moreno-Madriñán ◽  
Constantin Yiannoutsos ◽  
Austin Stanforth

2017 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
pp. 484-487
Author(s):  
Ji Yeon Lee ◽  
Hyun Ah Kim ◽  
Yu Cheol Kim ◽  
Seong Yeol Ryu

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. e0258388
Author(s):  
Chathurani Sigera ◽  
Chaturaka Rodrigo ◽  
Nipun L. de Silva ◽  
Praveen Weeratunga ◽  
Deepika Fernando ◽  
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Introduction The cost in managing hospitalised dengue patients varies across countries depending on access to healthcare, management guidelines, and state sponsored subsidies. For health budget planning, locally relevant, accurate costing data from prospective studies, is essential. Objective To characterise the direct costs of managing hospitalised patients with suspected dengue infection in Sri Lanka. Methods Colombo Dengue Study is a prospective single centre cohort study in Sri Lanka recruiting suspected hospitalised dengue fever patients in the first three days of fever and following them up until discharge. The diagnosis of dengue is retrospectively confirmed and the cohort therefore has a group of non-dengue fever patients with a phenotypically similar illness, managed as dengue while in hospital. The direct costs of hospital admission (base and investigation costs, excluding medication) were calculated for all recruited patients and compared between dengue and non-dengue categories as well as across subgroups (demographic, clinical or temporal) within each of these categories. We also explored if excluding dengue upfront, would lead to an overall cost saving in several hypothetical scenarios. Results From October 2017 to February 2020, 431 adult dengue patients and 256 non-dengue fever patients were recruited. The hospitalisation costs were USD 18.02 (SD: 4.42) and USD 17.55 (SD: 4.09) per patient per day for dengue and non-dengue patients respectively (p>0.05). Laboratory investigations (haematological, biochemical and imaging) accounted for more than 50% of the total cost. The costs were largely homogenous in all subgroups within or across dengue and non-dengue categories. Excluding dengue upfront by subsidised viral genomic testing may yield overall cost savings for non-dengue patients. Conclusion As non-dengue patients incur a similar cost per day as the dengue patients, confirming dengue diagnosis using subsidised tests for patients presenting in the first three days of fever may be cost-efficient.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.L.P.U. Karunathilaka ◽  
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K.A.K. Devapriya ◽  
V.G. Shanika ◽  
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Expressway construction projects are one of the crucial infrastructure projects for a country. Hence, assessment of environmental and social implications prior to initiation of the expressway construction project is vital. Thus, the research aims to analyse effect of social and environmental factors on expressway construction in Sri Lanka. Initially a comprehensive literature review was done to discuss on expressway construction in Sri Lanka and environmental and social implications of expressway construction in global context. The study followed a qualitative approach. Hence, four expert interviews were carried out to explore more on the same context limiting to Sri Lanka. Experts were selected from only on-going expressway project in Sri Lanka, central expressway project. Moreover, collected data were analysed through manual content analysis. The study findings highlighted viaduct construction, land acquisition and rock blasting as the major activities relating to environmental implications of the expressway construction projects. Thus, rational, logical, scientific, and technical selection of the routes is the most effective and efficient mean in minimizing adverse impacts. Hence planning of these activities should be done with due care by authorities only after proper feasibility studies. Further, major factors affecting social implications of the expressway construction have been identified as settlement, livelihood, public infrastructure and health and safety. Hence, resettlement action plans need to be updated to comply with the identified requirements through environmental and social factors.


Author(s):  
K. Suganya

Balance in work and family life is an emerging challenge for both employees and employers. This study was conducted to assess the status of work life balance among post graduates in Eastern province. The first objective of the study was to find the level of individual, organizational and environmental factors of work life balance.The second objective of the study was to find out the level of work life balance, The third objective of the study was to explore the relationship among them. And the fourth objective was to explore the impact of individual, organizational and environmental factors on Work life balance among post graduates in Eastern province. By using questionnaires data were collected from 103 Post graduates who are following Post graduate program in Eastern University of Sri Lanka and South Eastern University of Sri Lanka and stratified sampling was used.  Data were analyzed and evaluated by using univariate and regression analysis. Findings of this study revealed that the individual factors, organizational factors and environmental factors were in high level among post graduates in Eastern province. At the same these three variables positively and significantly impact on Work life balance of post graduates.


2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
TDCP Gunasekara ◽  
VGNS Velathanthiri ◽  
MM Weerasekara ◽  
SSN Fernando ◽  
M Peelawattage ◽  
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