scholarly journals Advancement, Collaboration and Effective Combat in Low Resource Setting: Public Health Overview After One year of the Corona Virus Pandemic in Bangladesh

2022 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
T Afroz ◽  
KA Arman ◽  
N Khurshid ◽  
S Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
International Association ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Optimal Level ◽  
Healthcare Provision ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Resource Setting ◽  
Low Resource Setting ◽  
The Government

Background: Current Coronavirus pandemic causing millions of deaths and unfathomable damage of nations worldwide, especially in health sector. Bangladesh is dealing with the biggest catastrophic public health event of the history in a courageous and effective way. An evidence based narrative review has been undergone to scientifically describe Bangladesh government’s measures to encounter the Corona pandemic, so far. The aim of this study is to document the collaborative action of different ministries of Bangladesh government during this pandemic to understand the in-depth steps of the healthcare provision and disaster preparedness of the public-private-international association in a low-resource setting. Methods: A literature review over five months has been conducted to write down the evidential narration of the activities against the pandemic damage in Bangladesh. Keyword and result based literatures and current media reports searched has been done. Selection criteria: Both online and offline reports, descriptive articles, governmental portal and ministerial websites were reviewed. The description is reported specifically based on the documents directed by government to fight against COVID-19 from the beginning of the pandemic till the writing period. Findings and discussion: In spite of the resource constraints, government of Bangladesh has been able to limit the damage in an optimal level. The inter- and- inter ministerial functional proposition and collaboration in national and international stakeholders initiated and sustained by the government strengthen the shield against the Coronavirus invasion. Conclusion: The sufferings brought by the pandemic knows no bound. The pandemic damage and ruin are unspeakable and undeniable at the same time. It is time to observe the positivity and critically appreciate the efforts taken by the current governmental authority to make a constructive remark for present situation, and be prepare for future building of the nation. JOPSOM 2021; 40(1): 66-71

Corrupt Practices in the Public Health Sector: A Focus on Metropolitan Local Government Areas of Kano State, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Mohammed Mustapha Namadi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Healthcare Provision ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Sector ◽  
The Government

Corruption is pervasive in Nigeria at all levels. Thus, despite recent gains in healthcare provision, the health sector faces numerous corruption related challenges. This study aims at examining areas of corruption in the health sector with specific focus on its types and nature. A sample size of 480 respondents aged 18 years and above was drawn from the eight Metropolitan Local Government Areas of Kano State, using the multistage sampling technique. The results revealed evidence of corrupt practices including those related to unnecessary-absenteeism, diversion of patients from the public health facilities to the private sector, diverting money meant for the purchase of equipment, fuel and diesel, bribery, stealing of medications, fraud, misappropriation of medications and unjustifiable reimbursement claims. In order to resolve the problem of corrupt practices in the healthcare sector, the study recommended the need for enforcement of appropriate code of ethics guiding the conduct of the health professionals, adoption of anti-corruption strategies, and strengthening the government monitoring system to check corruption in public health sector in order to ensure equitable access to healthcare services among the under-privileged people in the society.

scholarly journals Calibration of the Epilepsy Questionnaire for Use in a Low-Resource Setting

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Joseph O. Yaria ◽  
Adesola Ogunniyi
Keyword(s):  
Health Sector ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Good Test ◽  
Retest Reliability ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Resource Setting ◽  
Low Resource Setting ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

Background. Burden of epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa is huge in the midst of shortage of human resource in its health sector. Using skilled staff to supervise and support lower level healthcare workers providing frontline primary healthcare is a pragmatic coping solution. But, lower level health providers face enormous challenges due to absent clinical algorithms or pragmatic rapid diagnostic tests. Objective. This study aimed to determine if the use of an epilepsy questionnaire in a traditional clinical setting would improve semiological details obtained and diagnostic accuracy. Methods. A prospective study was conducted involving patients diagnosed with epilepsy each with an eye witness who had regularly witnessed the seizures. Routine seizure history from clinical documentation and an interviewer-based questionnaire were compared. The data obtained were assessed for content, accuracy, intermethod and test-retest reliability. Results. Sixty-seven patients with a median age of 24 years were recruited. Routine seizure history had obtained less semiological details with inadequate description of nonmotor manifestations and lateralizing motor details. The questionnaire-obtained history showed higher accuracy for generalized onset seizure (0.83 vs. 0.56) and focal onset seizures (0.79 vs. 0.59). The questionnaire-obtained history also had good test-retest reliability for various semiological domains except automatisms. Conclusions. Routine seizure histories are not standardized. The use of a questionnaire goes a long way in improving semiology description in a low-resource setting and guides the health provider on what details to focus on. The use of epilepsy questionnaires should, therefore, be considered to improve semiology, especially in nonspecialist settings.

scholarly journals Public health facility resource availability and provider adherence to first antenatal guidelines in a low resource setting in Accra, Ghana

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Amoakoh-Coleman ◽  
Irene Akua Agyepong ◽  
Gbenga A. Kayode ◽  
Diederick E. Grobbee ◽  
Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Facility ◽  
Resource Availability ◽  
Public Health Facility ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Resource Setting ◽  
Low Resource Setting ◽  
Provider Adherence

Evaluation of a New Protocol of Insulin Dose Adjustment in a Low-Resource Setting

Diabetes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 93-LB
Author(s):  
EDDY JEAN BAPTISTE ◽  
PHILIPPE LARCO ◽  
MARIE-NANCY CHARLES LARCO ◽  
JULIA E. VON OETTINGEN ◽  
EDDLYS DUBOIS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dose Adjustment ◽  
Insulin Dose ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Resource Setting ◽  
Low Resource Setting

scholarly journals Right paraduodenal hernia with extensive bowel gangrene treated with staged surgery: a Bogota bag followed by resection in a low-resource setting

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. e239250
Author(s):  
Vijay Anand Ismavel ◽  
Moloti Kichu ◽  
David Paul Hechhula ◽  
Rebecca Yanadi
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Material ◽  
Successful Outcome ◽  
Paraduodenal Hernia ◽  
Transparent Plastic ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Entire Small Bowel ◽  
Resource Setting ◽  
Low Resource Setting ◽  
Right Paraduodenal Hernia ◽  
Bowel Gangrene

We report a case of right paraduodenal hernia with strangulation of almost the entire small bowel at presentation. Since resection of all bowel of doubtful viability would have resulted in too little residual length to sustain life, a Bogota bag was fashioned using transparent plastic material from an urine drainage bag and the patient monitored intensively for 18 hours. At re-laparotomy, clear demarcation lines had formed with adequate length of viable bowel (100 cm) and resection with anastomosis was done with a good outcome on follow-up, 9 months after surgery. Our description of a rare cause of strangulated intestinal obstruction and a novel method of maximising length of viable bowel is reported for its successful outcome in a low-resource setting.

scholarly journals Humanitarian Surgical Missions in Times of COVID-19: Recommendations to Safely Return to a Sub-Saharan Africa Low-Resource Setting

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Víctor Lopez-Lopez ◽  
Ana Morales ◽  
Elisa García-Vazquez ◽  
Miguel González ◽  
Quiteria Hernandez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Resource Setting ◽  
Low Resource Setting ◽  
Sub Saharan

scholarly journals Vulvar cancer: surgical management and survival trends in a low resource setting

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Navin Kumar ◽  
Mukur Dipi Ray ◽  
D. N. Sharma ◽  
Rambha Pandey ◽  
Kanak Lata ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Management ◽  
Vulvar Cancer ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Resource Setting ◽  
Low Resource Setting

Multi-level Chunk-based Constituent-to-Dependency Treebank Transformation for Tibetan Dependency Parsing

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Shumin Shi ◽  
Dan Luo ◽  
Xing Wu ◽  
Congjun Long ◽  
Heyan Huang
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Manual Annotation ◽  
Syntactic Parsing ◽  
Dependency Parsing ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Resource Setting ◽  
Dependency Tree ◽  
Low Resource Setting ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Multi Level

Dependency parsing is an important task for Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, a mature parser requires a large treebank for training, which is still extremely costly to create. Tibetan is a kind of extremely low-resource language for NLP, there is no available Tibetan dependency treebank, which is currently obtained by manual annotation. Furthermore, there are few related kinds of research on the construction of treebank. We propose a novel method of multi-level chunk-based syntactic parsing to complete constituent-to-dependency treebank conversion for Tibetan under scarce conditions. Our method mines more dependencies of Tibetan sentences, builds a high-quality Tibetan dependency tree corpus, and makes fuller use of the inherent laws of the language itself. We train the dependency parsing models on the dependency treebank obtained by the preliminary transformation. The model achieves 86.5% accuracy, 96% LAS, and 97.85% UAS, which exceeds the optimal results of existing conversion methods. The experimental results show that our method has the potential to use a low-resource setting, which means we not only solve the problem of scarce Tibetan dependency treebank but also avoid needless manual annotation. The method embodies the regularity of strong knowledge-guided linguistic analysis methods, which is of great significance to promote the research of Tibetan information processing.

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