Sökning: "Severe acute malnutrition"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden Severe acute malnutrition.

1. 1. Identification and Community Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition : Empirical evidence in rural Southern Ethiopia

   Författare :Amare Worku Tadesse; Eva-Charlotte Ekström; Yemane Berhane; Henrik Friis; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Severe acute malnutrition; children; anthropometric indicators; integrated outpatient therapeutic programme; recovery; Ethiopia; Nutrition; Nutrition;

   Sammanfattning : The current recommended standard management for all children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM). CMAM has a community-based outpatient therapeutic program (OTP) to treat uncomplicated SAM and has been scaled-up and integrated with government health services in low-resource settings. LÄS MER

3. 2. Integrated community-based management of severe acute child malnutrition : Studies from rural Southern Ethiopia

   Författare :Elazar Tadesse; Eva-Charlotte Ekström; Anders Hjern; Pia Olsson; Yemane Berehane; Tahmeed Ahmed; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Severe acute malnutrition; integrated outpatient therapeutic programme; programme outcome; recovery; Ethiopia;

   Sammanfattning : Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the community-based Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP) as a standard treatment protocol for the management of uncomplicated Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) at the community level. OTP has been scaled up and integrated into the existing grassroots level government health systems in several developing countries. LÄS MER

4. 3. Effects of Food Supplementation and Psychosocial Stimulation on Growth and Development of Severely Malnourished Children : Intervention Studies in Bangladesh

   Författare :Baitun Nahar; Lars-Åke Persson; SM Grantham-McGregor; Tahmeed Ahmed; Kim F Michaelsen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Psychosocial stimulation; food supplementation; HOME; child-rearing practices; maternal depressive symptoms; severe malnutrition; Bangladesh; International Health; Internationell hälsa;

   Sammanfattning : Early childhood malnutrition is a global public health problem with serious short- and long-term consequences. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the effects of psychosocial stimulation (PS) with or without food supplementation (FS) on growth and development of severely malnourished children, quality of home environment, mother’s child-rearing practices and depressive symptoms. LÄS MER

5. 4. Clinical studies in severe heart failure : neurohormonal, electrolyte and metabolic aspects

   Författare :Mats Broqvist; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

   Sammanfattning : Congestive heart failure is a common and complex syndrome with a poor prognosis. Although heart disease is usually the primary event, the clinical syndrome is characterised by several extra-cardiac manifestations. Neurohormonal activation seems to play a crucial role for these manifestations and the progression of the disease. LÄS MER

7. 5. Life after stroke Outcome and views of patients and carers

   Författare :Ann-Cathrin Jönsson; Lund Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Medicin människa och djur ; Medicine human and vertebrates ; weight loss; shoulder pain; health related quality of life; stroke; outcome; pain;

   Sammanfattning : The aims were to follow stroke patients over time with respect to general pain, shoulder pain, weight loss, and health related quality of life (HRQOL), the latter also in stroke survivors' informal caregivers. Methods During a 1 year period, 416 first-ever stroke patients were included in the population based Lund Stroke Register; 327 survivors were followed up after four months and 305 one year later. LÄS MER