BACKGROUND: Perinatal death is a devastating experience for the mother and of concern in clinical practice. Regular perinatal audit may identify suboptimal care related to perinatal deaths and thus appropriate measures ...

ABSTRACT Background: Drug abuse continues to be a major risky behavior problem all over the world. Women are more vulnerable to the adverse social, cultural, economic and physiological consequences associated with ...

Scombroid fish poisoning is a mild to moderate form of food poisoning caused by eating spoiled or bacterial contaminated fish after capture or during subsequent handling and storage. Its symptoms are similar to those of ...

The current study assessed preparedness among nurses about reporting adverse drug reactions in public and private hospitals. Nurses in hospitals are among health providers very close to patients and are involved in the ...

Background information: Sound and reliable information is the foundation of decision-making across all health system building blocks.Strengthening health information system is a global concern especially in developing ...

Diasporas has been used for quite a long time in Tanzanian Society for treatment of convulsions. The dried plant material was extracted sequentially by using solvents of different Polarities starting with dichloromethane, ...

Background National governments and international agencies, have commitment in scaling up health interventions and meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Scaling up health intervention means expanding health ...

Background: Inconsistent evidence of a higher risk of adverse perinatal outcomes during off-hours compared to office hours necessitated a search for clear evidence of an association between time of birth and adverse perinatal ...

Although Tanzania is operating a decentralized health system, most of the health workers’ retention strategies are designed at the central level and implemented at the local level. This study sought to explore the bottom-up ...

Job satisfaction is an important part of nurse’s lives, inducing patient safety, productivity, performance, quality of care, retention, turnover, commitment to the organization and the profession. Little is known about ...