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Publikováno v:
Injury Prevention. 22:144-148
Health professionals from Zambia and Austria conducted a low-cost intervention in Lusaka, Zambia, intended to improve care outcomes for victims of interpersonal violence (IPEV). It was designed to build on existing health and social services infrastr
Publikováno v:
Journal of Public Health Policy. 35:14-25
The United Nations adopted an historic international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in April 2013. A 1997 meeting of Nobel Peace Prize laureates who called for an International Code of Conduct to address the 'destructive effects of the unregulated arms trad
Autor:
Robert E Mtonga, WA Odhiambo, Senoga Ismail Mpanga, Zakari Mohammed Aminu, Ime A. John, Diego E. Zavala, Simon Bokongo, Peter Olupot-Olupot
Publikováno v:
Journal of Public Health Policy. 28:432-441
This paper describes the development of a pilot project to test the implementation of an epidemiological surveillance system for intentional (violent) and non-intentional injuries, at emergency departments in selected hospitals in five African countr
Publikováno v:
Injury Prevention. 22:A349.1-A349
Background Violence is a leading worldwide public health problem and obstructs achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. 90% of the global burden of violence and injury mortality occurs in low-income and middle-income countries. 35% of women w
Autor:
Aminu Z. Mohammed, Simon Bokongo, Walter Odhiambo Anjango, Diego E. Zavalaa, Ime A. John, Ismail Mpanga Senoga, Peter Olupot-Olupot, Robert E Mtonga
Publikováno v:
Medicine, conflict, and survival. 24(4)
A multinational injury surveillance pilot project was carried out in five African countries in the first half of 2007 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia). Hospitals were selected in each country and a uniform methodo
Autor:
Robert E Mtonga, Diego E. Zavala
Publikováno v:
Medicine, conflict, and survival. 24(4)
The University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia, is the nation's premier tertiary referral hospital and a teaching centre for the University of Zambia as well as a research centre of excellence. It was one of the five sites chosen as part of a mul
Publikováno v:
Journal of public health policy. 28(4)
At the World Health Assembly in 1996, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared violence “a leading worldwide public health problem” and called for public health strategies to address it. The WHO's call to action, as well as an international p
Publikováno v:
Injury Prevention. 16:A217-A217
Armed violence is a global problem, yet disproportionately impacts certain nations. In recent years, approximately 90% of all direct conflict deaths occurred in low-income countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The situation for indirect deaths
Publikováno v:
Injury Prevention. 16:A144-A144
Introduction Quality data are important for health resource allocation and the design, implementation and evaluation of injury prevention programmes and policies. Such data are seldom available in resource poor settings. Although there have been succ
Autor:
WA Odhiambo, Zakari Mohammed Aminu, Senoga Ismail Mpanga, Robert E Mtonga, Diego E. Zavala, Ime A. John, Peter Olupot-Olupot, Simon Bokongo
Publikováno v:
Journal of Public Health Policy. 29:148-148
This paper describes the development of a pilot project to test the implementation of an epidemiological surveillance system for intentional (violent) and non-intentional injuries, at emergency departments in selected hospitals in five African countr