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GHTC
Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects more than 250 million people globally. The life-threatening, inherited blood disorder results in sickled red blood cells, which can become trapped in blood vessels, causing anemia, pain, organ damage, increased risk
Publikováno v:
GHTC
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common infections in developing countries such as Kenya. Despite this, their prevalence is virtually unknown from a patient's perspective, especially in rural communities. Worldwide, it is estimated
Publikováno v:
Procedia Engineering. 107:417-426
Approximately 2.5 billion people, majority of them in developing countries, consume street foods on a daily basis. High malnourishment rates in these low-resource settings create a need for healthy street food. The successful introduction of healthy
Publikováno v:
Procedia Engineering. 107:387-394
The rise of diabetes in Kenya presents many challenges to a healthcare system struggling to deal with communicable diseases such as HIV and malaria. The lack of a proper system in place to quickly and effectively diagnose diabetes, especially in remo
Autor:
Lisa Arndt Martin, Vincent A. Pelligrini, Ryan Fair, Alison Gatewood Porter, Jill Olmstead, Aleksandar Rajkovic, Sarah Verbiest, Nicole Kleinstreuer, Luca Persani, Lawrence M. Nelson, Janet E. Hall, Peter F. Schnatz, Xuezhi Jiang, Alberto Falorni, Khanjan Mehta
Most clinicians are not prepared to provide integrated personal care to address all the clinical needs of women with primary ovarian insufficiency. Design thinking is an engineering methodology used to develop and evaluate novel concepts for systems
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http://hdl.handle.net/11391/1407880
http://hdl.handle.net/11391/1407880
Publikováno v:
Healthcare in Low-resource Settings, Vol 4, Iss 2 (2016)
The burden of chronic, non-communicable disease such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer is growing in many developing countries including Kenya. The use of community health workers is an important tool to improve the access to care and e
Publikováno v:
GHTC
Sub-Saharan Africa is increasingly experiencing the double burden of communicable and noncommunicable diseases. Many of these diseases, including diabetes, remain prevalent despite the availability of viable treatment options. Lack of access to scree
Autor:
Eric Obeysekare, Connor Higgins, Khanjan Mehta, Taylor Lyle, Shannon McFalls, Dhruv Rao, Hartini Margot
Publikováno v:
GHTC
Malnutrition is a serious problem in developing countries, particularly among children under five and women of childbearing age. Expectant and nursing mothers are especially vulnerable to micronutrient deficiencies. Effects of micronutrient deficienc
Publikováno v:
Journal of medical engineeringtechnology. 40(1)
Lack of access to healthcare in the developing world has created a need for locally-based primary and pre-primary healthcare systems. Many regions of the world have adopted Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes, but volunteers in these programmes
Autor:
James H. Adair, Janak Jethva, Arwa Mukhtar, Khanjan Mehta, Bridget Burt, Nicholas Frazzette, Jennifer Dobson
Publikováno v:
GHTC
Developing countries face an increasing double disease burden of chronic health conditions like cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes alongside traditional communicable diseases like tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and malaria. Rural patients often ca