scholarly journals Delivery patterns among women at the Tamale West Hospital from 2012 to 2015, Northern Region, Ghana

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
F. A. Ziba ◽  
P.P.M. Dapare ◽  
P. Kafari ◽  
K. Tigawuti ◽  
S. B. Nte-Ajal
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Population Projections ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Birth Seasonality ◽  
Maternal Deaths ◽  
The Public ◽  
Tamale Metropolis ◽  
Cohort Study Design ◽  
Newborn Complications

The study traces the likely route of the movement of fertility through the demographic transition from the available data obtained from the Tamale West Hospital. The information is critical for construction of population projections as well as for monitoring and evaluating action programs. This research was conducted to assess delivery patterns among women in the Tamale West Hospital for the four years under study. Retrospective cohort study design was used for this study. The data for the research work was from the Public Health Unit of Tamale West Hospital. Findings from the research revealed that for the period of the four years (2012-2015), a total of 11,083 babies were delivered with the majority (54.3%) being male babies. Further results showed that the highest (31.6%) deliveries of babies by women were in 2012. The study also found that of the 30 (0.27%) of babies with newborn complications, majority 28 (93%) suffered opthalmia neonatorum and 2 (7%) suffered from asphyxia (7%). A total of 14 (0.13%) maternal deaths were recorded of which 2015 recorded the highest (64.3%) number of maternal deaths. The causes of the deaths included sepsis, obstructed labour, eclampsia, unsafe abortion and hemorrhage. The study highlights the high numbers of births been recorded in the region. These huge numbers have a corresponding impact on the country’s population, with its associated problems. Health facility delivery is persistently high in the Tamale Metropolis and the birth seasonality peaked in May, September and October. The study therefore recommends continuous health education in the metropolis to minimize issues related to labour complications and maternal and infant mortality.Journal of Medical and Biomedical Sciences (2017) 6(2), 38- 43

scholarly journals Exploring the Socio-Economic Experiences of Women Post-Mastectomy in the Tamale Metropolis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn Osei-Amoah ◽  
Yennuten Paarima ◽  
Lydia Aziato
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Method ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The Public ◽  
Tamale Metropolis ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Economic Well Being

Abstract Background: Breast cancer (BC) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among females. Mastectomy is the treatment of choice in most African countries due to late reporting. The majority of women diagnosed with BC experience socio-economic challenges. This study explored the factors that affect the socio-economic well-being of women post-mastectomy in Ghana. Methods: The study was conducted at the teaching hospital in the northern region of Ghana using descriptive exploratory qualitative design. A purposive sampling method was employed to recruit participants. Data was saturated with 15 participants aged between 28 and 78 years. The in-depth interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analyzed using thematic content analysis procedures. Results: Participants isolated themselves as society frown on them after mastectomy. Some of the women loss their jobs/businesses and some did not get the needed support. The high cost of treatment placed a huge financial burden on them. Some of the participants felt rejected and loss their femininity, as their partners were not having sex with them after the operation. Conclusion: Women post mastectomy faces several challenges and family support is vital to improve their wellbeing. There is a need to educate the public against the stigmatization of women post mastectomy.

scholarly journals The Knowledge of Unsafe Abortion among the Youth: The Case of Tamale Metropolis in the Northern Region of Ghana

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (07) ◽  
pp. 4522-4529
Author(s):  
Der EM ◽  
Ndego SR ◽  
Larbi OS ◽  
Opoku A ◽  
Nakong V
Keyword(s):  
Great Majority ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Severe Bleeding ◽  
Unsafe Abortion ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Safe Abortion ◽  
Maternal Deaths ◽  
Tamale Metropolis ◽  
The Mean

Background: Unsafe abortion contributes significantly to maternal deaths in Africa despite the availability of safe abortion services. This study assessed the knowledge of unsafe abortion among the youth within the Tamale Metropolis in the Northern region of Ghana. Material and methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study using structured questionnaires. Data was analysed using SPSS version 23.0 (Chicago). Result: The mean age of respondents was 23 ±10.4 years. The great majority (98.8%) (P<0.0001) have heard of unsafe abortion. The act is common among young, and unmarried women (P<0.0001). Unsafe abortion is commonly committed outside health facilities (70.9%; P<0.0001), in the communities (73.2%; P<0.0001), supervised by herbalists (53.9%), because of confidentiality (43.5%) and affordability (42.9%). Majority, (77.4%; P<0.0001) have heard of a method of unsafe abortion. The commonly used method was herbal preparation/medicine (264 (77.6%); P<0.0001). The two major reasons for unsafe abortion were: to allow the victim continue with education (47.4%) and to avoid difficulties in caring for the pregnancy and child (25.9%). Approximately, 99.4% (P<0.0001) were aware of some complications associated with unsafe abortion, particularly death (38.8%) and severe bleeding per vaginam (16.5%).  A total of 78 (22.9%) have ever been pregnant, and 68 (87.2%) aborted the pregnancy because their partners did not allow them to keep the pregnancy. The great majority (83.8%) have unsafe abortion at home (59.6%). Conclusion: Respondents had significant knowledge of unsafe abortion and the associated complications. Majority of the respondents who have ever been pregnant had unsafe abortion outside a health facility.

scholarly journals Obesity and hypertension among market men and women in the Tamale metropolis

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
V.N. Yakong ◽  
P.P.M. Dapare ◽  
B.A. Boateng ◽  
S.O. Shittu ◽  
F.A. Ziba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Anthropometric Parameters ◽  
Entire Study ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Tamale Metropolis ◽  
Prevalence Of Obesity ◽  
Study Population

Obesity and hypertension are emerging problems in the Tamale metropolis in the northern region of Ghana. This study investigated the prevalence of obesity and hypertension among market men and women in the Tamale Metropolis. This is from a viewpoint of the market place, being an occupational environment that predisposes individual to obesity, mainly due to sedentary living and enhanced access to all sorts of food. A total of 220 market men and women were contacted. 15 individuals refused to take part in the study and 5 returned incomplete questionnaires, leaving 200 complete and evaluable respondents comprising 100 men and 100 women. The study population was selected randomly from four major markets (Lamashegu market, Aboabo market, Tamale central market and Kukuo market) in the city. Obesity was measured using the various anthropometric parameters (BMI, WHR, WC and %BF) and blood pressure was measured. The prevalence of hypertension was 3% while the prevalence of obesity was 25.0%, 35.5%, 30.0% and 52.5% using BMI, WHR, WC and %BF respectively among the entire study population. Among the men, 27.0%, 8.0%, 8.0% and 37.0% were obese using BMI, WHR, WC and %BF respectively; whilst the women recorded 23.0%, 63.0%, 52.0% and 68.0% as the prevalence of obesity using BMI, WHR, WC and %BF respectively. Among the men, 5.0% were hypertensive while 1.0% of women had hypertension. Prevalence of obesity and blood pressure values increased with increase in age. The prevalence of obesity is a common phenomenon among the market men and women in the metropolis. Irrespective of the criteria used, obesity is more common among the market women. The prevalence of obesity from this study is age dependent; it also depends on educational level as well as marital status. The prevalence of hypertension on the other hand is low and it is common among the men as compared to the women and also increased with age. Education on hypertension and obesity should be prioritized among the market men and women as a greater proportion of our study pop-ulation who were obese were found to be illiterates.Journal of Medical and Biomedical Sciences (2015) 4(3), 9-17Keywords: Cardiovascular disease, sedentary lifestyle, occupation, adiposity

scholarly journals A Field Study on Urban Rail Transits in City of Kuala Lumpur: Passenger Views on Train Noise and Vibration

2015 ◽  
Vol 773-774 ◽  
pp. 839-844 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Idrus bin Mohd Masirin ◽  
Nur Farrina Johari ◽  
Noor Hafiza Nordin ◽  
Abdul Halid Abdullah ◽  
Mohd Isom Azis
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Sound Level ◽  
Urban Rail Transit ◽  
Vibration Velocity ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
The Public ◽  
Urban Rail ◽  
Noise Data ◽  
The City

Malaysia is a fast developing country which thrives on the growth of its population and economy. Kuala Lumpur is the capital of Malaysia with an area of 243 km2 has a population of 1.4 million [1]. From the statistics, the number of passengers using intercity train services in Malaysia in was 187,345,149 in the year 2012 [2]. Comfortability of a service is a major factor that influences the public. The research will be conducted at the City of Kuala Lumpur, PUTRA LRT (Kelana Jaya Line) and MONOREL Line is selected as the main focus of the research. The data collection will be conducted in the train coaches with two parameters. The noise and vibrations in the train coaches will be taken using the Sound Level Meter (NOR118) and Vibration Meter (Movipack 01dB-Steel) respectively. The noise data were obtained from the interior of the train coaches during operation, while the vibrations were obtained from the wall surface of the coach interior. The vibration aspect for this research is more focused on three parameters which are displacement (μm), vibration velocity (mm/s) and vibration frequency (Hz)[7]. Questionnaires were given out to the train passengers in order to obtain public opinions and satisfaction feedbacks relating their experiences on the train coaches. In this paper it also discusses on the outcomes of the field research work conducted and it was found that PUTRA LRT has a lower vibration value when compared to the MONOREL. The public opinion has also showed unanimous agreement to the field observations conducted by the researchers. However, MONOREL records lower noise levels compared to PUTRA LRT which means quieter journey experience to the commuters. It is hoped that this study will enable the operators to enhance their service weaknesses with the public playing a part in improving the urban rail transit in the City of Kuala Lumpur. Keywords:Comfortability,Noise,Vibration,LRT,MONOREL,

FLEEING INTO SLAVERY: The Insurgent Geographies of Brazilian Quilombolas (Maroons), 1880-1881

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuko Miki
Keyword(s):  
Northern Region ◽  
The Other ◽  
Back Wall ◽  
Espírito Santo ◽  
Stepping Stone ◽  
The Public ◽  
Back Door ◽  
Espirito Santo

On July 26, 1880, Benedito, the most notorious quilombola, or maroon, in São Mateus, the northern region of Espírito Santo province, Brazil, disappeared from the public prison in a flamboyant escape. After his drunken guards fell asleep, Benedito placed a cleaning bucket on top of his cot and employed it as a stepping-stone in tandem with a rope made from his bedsheet to scale the back wall enclosing the cell. He leapt to the other side, opened the back door, and slipped out noiselessly. Rendering the situation even more preposterous to those who discovered him gone were the handcuffs that lay on the floor smeared with sheep fat, which he had used to slip his hands out without forcing the locks.

scholarly journals Hegemony in Effective Communication on the Modern Health Services During Pregnancy, Give Birth, and Postpartum in Baduy Communities

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Ratih Ariningrum ◽  
Vita Kartika ◽  
Rozana Ika Agustiya ◽  
Choirum Latifah
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Maternal Deaths ◽  
The Public ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Organic Intellectual

Kanekes Village, where Baduy people live, is the biggest contributor to maternal deaths in the District of Lebak. Baduy awareness to check pregnancy at midwives has begun to increase, but for childbirth and childbirth examination has not been carried out. That is because there is a culture in the Baduy community regarding childbirth itself, as well as their adherence to the rules that have been issued by traditional leaders. The research uses a qualitative approach with the Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach. This study aims to examine the constraints and analyze the process of the formation of relationships between health workers, cadres, and heads of RT with the Baduy community in effective communication to improve modern health services during pregnancy, give birth, and postpartum in the Baduy community. The results showed that modern health services can be applied to the behavior of pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperal of the Baduy community if the agents of change (organic intellectual) can change the idea of the modern health service into an ideology, then popular belief is obtained, then hegemony is formed from the agents of change. The final stage is that the country must be able to accommodate this effort. The efforts of agents of change (organic intellectuals) from the idea of modern health services to the created hegemony are sought by effective communication. Implementation of effective communication is pursued by provding explanations that are easily understood by the public through simulations.

scholarly journals Research on Performance Evaluation of Diversified Government Quality Work and Analysis on Application Practice in Nei Mongol

2021 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
pp. 01011
Author(s):  
Lei Feng ◽  
Juxiu Huang ◽  
Jingxing Liao
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Government Performance ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Quality Work ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Quality ◽  
Local Quality ◽  
Big Data Technology

The evaluation of public satisfaction with government quality work is an evaluation form to evaluate government performance from the perspective of the public. The evaluation process is open and transparent, and the results are relatively objective and fair. Taking the application practice in Nei Mongol as an example, in this paper, an index framework is designed and constructed, 12 leagues and cities in the whole region are covered by the investigation, and the actual effect of local quality work is explored and analyzed in combination with big data technology so as to provide enlightenment and reference for relevant research work in the quality field.

scholarly journals A Research on Multi-View Video Summarization Techniques

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 6837-6846
Keyword(s):  
Video Summarization ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Original Video ◽  
Multiple Views ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Still Images ◽  
Maximum Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Surveillance Cameras ◽  
Accident Scenarios

Video Surveillance System uses video cameras to capture images and videos that can be compressed, stored and send to place with the limited set of monitors .Now a Days all the public places such as bank, educational institutions, Offices, Hospitals are equipped with multiple surveillance cameras having overlapping field of view for security and environment monitoring purposes. A Video Summarization is a technique to generate the summary of entire Video Content either by still images or through video skim. The summarized video length should be less than the original video length and it should covers maximum information from the original video. Video summarization studies concentrating on monocular videos cannot be applied directly to multiple-view videos due to redundancy in multiple views. Generating Summary for Surveillance videos is more challenging because, videos Captured by surveillance cameras is long, contains uninteresting events, same scene recorded in different views leading to inter-view dependencies and variation in illuminations. In this paper, we present a survey on the research work carried on video summarization techniques for videos captured through multiple views. The summarized video generated can be used for the analysis of post-accident scenarios, identifying suspicious events, theft in public which supports Crime department for the investigation purposes.

International Telecommunication Union

1955 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-278
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Telecommunication Networks ◽  
International Telecommunication Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
International Telecommunication ◽  
Social Council

The annual report of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to the Economic and Social Council for the year 1953 stated that considerable progress had been made by the various countries during the year in developing or modernizing existing telecommunication networks, within the limits of technical and scientific progress and of credit available for investment in communications. The grid of telegraph and telephone circuits criss-crossing frontiers had been considerably tightened up and reinforced during 1953, important research work had been carried on, certain practical steps had been taken with a view to providing the public with semi-automatic international telephone service and a direct international telegraph subscribers' service, and the national broadcasting networks and television transmittal services had been expanded and improved. While the credit for these achievements, the report stated, was above all due to the specialists, no extension of telecommunication networks would have been possible without the intervention of the organs of ITU in the coordination of projects and in organizing cooperation between the various countries. The report contained information on ITU membership and on the organization and operation of the permanent organs of ITU, as well as a detailed summary of ITU activities during the year 1953, its relations with the United Nations and other international organizations, and its budgets for 1953 and 1954, for which the overall figures were respectively 6,225,100 and 6,367,500 Swiss francs, exclusive of United Nations technical assistance funds.

Slow Storytelling and hybridity: Re-staging community storytelling as a tool for co-thinking

Book 2 0 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Reflective Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Intimacy ◽  
A Site

Since the early 2000s social media has transformed the internet into a site for the exchange of stories through the mass democratization of publishing. And yet, new forms of digital and online storytelling have at the same time compromised one of the core functions of storytelling, namely its social aspect, the ability to build community when two or more people share stories in the same space, at the same time, breathing the same air. Somewhat ironically the advent of social media may have broadened the audience for any one person’s storytelling, whilst diminishing the social intimacy of the storytelling experience. As part of its research work into storytelling as a means of engaging people in the public debate around environment, the Storytelling Academy at Loughborough University has been developing new forms and processes of digital storytelling to promote wider engagement and dissemination of environmentally driven personal stories. ‘The Reasons’, first staged in Cambridgeshire in 2016, was an attempt to create a live, community social event that provided a public forum for storytelling as a way of debating issues around drought and water governance in the Fens. Inspired by a re-staging of La Rasgioni in Sardinia in 2015, a traditional form of conflict resolution, whereby a ‘mock’ court provides the means for the community to publicly tell its stories to each other, ‘The Reasons’ was co-designed for the Fenland context and was performed twice in 2016. It was then further adapted for use in the Korogocho slum in Nairobi for an event to discuss the issue of waste management with members of the local community, as part of an initiative with UN Live. ‘The Reasons’ is an attempt to bring together the advantages of digital storytelling as a reflective process with the social intimacy of the live storytelling event. The result is a new form of hybrid storytelling that seeks to build community and establish co-thinking processes to build resilience to environmental change. This article reflects critically upon the development and evolution of this work over the past five years.

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