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Factors associated with occurrence of diarrhoea in children aged less than 5 years in Uganda: A case study of seven towns on the shores of Lake Victoria
(Makerere University, 2012-05)
This study assessed the socio-demographic, environmental and behavioural factors associated with the occurrence of childhood diarrhoea using already existing cross-sectional data from the 2006/07 Uganda Urban Inequities ...
Factors associated with cross generational sex among university female students in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2012-08)
Cross generational sex (CGS) is an important factor in the increase of young girls’ exposure to risk factors at individual level among students. Cross generational sex (young girls having sex with men who are 10 years ...
Factors associated with use of injectable contraceptives among women in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2012-08)
This study was aimed at investigating the factors associated with the use of injectable contraceptives among women in Uganda. The study focused on women in Uganda and was based on a data set from the 2006 Uganda Demographic ...
Panel data analysis of hospital expenditure: A case of 27 catholic hospitals in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2012-09)
Although considerable literature provides econometric estimates of hospital cost functions in developed countries, relatively little is known about what drives variations in total hospital costs across resource-poor ...
Regional variation in utilization of post-partum care services in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2010-01)
This is a comparative study of the factors affecting women in utilization of postpartum care services among the four regions in Uganda that is central, eastern, northern and western. The objective of the study was to compare ...
Effect of regime change on foreign direct investment inflows in Uganda (1970-2009).
(Makerere University, 2012-10)
The objective of this study was to examine the effect of regime change on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Inflows in Uganda for the period 1970 to 2009. It reviews the theoretical and empirical evidence to assess how GDP ...
Analysis of epidemiological and clinical characteristics of Acute Flaccid Paralyses (AFP) cases in Uganda (1997 – 2004).
(Makerere University, 2013-05)
This study was intended to analyze the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of AFP cases reported in Uganda for the period 1997 to 2004; and to determine whether the establishment of National Polio Expert Committee ...
Determinants of the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV knowledge in Central Uganda
(Makerere University, 2019-09)
The aim of this study was to identify the determinants of PMTCT knowledge in Central Uganda. It was guided by three specific objectives which included:(i) to determine the effect of the socio-economic factors on PMTCT ...
Cohabitation and union dissolution in Central Uganda: Differences between cohabitors and non-cohabitors
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-04)
The aim of this paper was to establish whether the differences in the risks of union dissolution between cohabitors and non-cohabitors in Uganda have converged over time using event history data. Data were collected in ...
Alcohol use among adults in Uganda: Findings from the countrywide non-communicable diseases risk factor cross-sectional survey
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Background: There are limited data on levels of alcohol use in most sub-Saharan African countries.
Objective: We analyzed data from Uganda’s non-communicable diseases risk factor survey conducted in 2014, to identify ...