Vol. 6 No. 07 (2020)

Research Articles

• Research Articles

  Ranking Countries According to Health: A Basis for Universal Primary Care

  Doug Dix*

  Country Health is defined as the ratio of life-expectancy at birth to the product of under-five mortality rate and maternal mortality ratio. Forty-nine of the 172 countries studied have Country Health greater than 0.6, and are considered healthy. The remaining 123 countries have Country Health…

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  Prevalence of Wasting In Children Less than Five Years Admitted At the Pediatric Ward in Kitale County Referral Hospital

  S. Kagoiyo Njeru*, J.N. Gachangi, G. Muthui

  Background: Wasting refers to a child who is too thin for his or her height. Wasting is as a result of sudden or acute malnutrition, where the child does not get enough calories from food and hence faces an immediate risk of death. Objective : To assess the prevalence of wasting in less than…

  231-238

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