A Study of the Pattern of Non-Emergency Surgical Disease amongst Children in Lower Primary School in Lusaka Urban

Ngwisha, Chadwick Leonard Thom (1993) A Study of the Pattern of Non-Emergency Surgical Disease amongst Children in Lower Primary School in Lusaka Urban. Masters thesis, University of Zambia.

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Abstract

This study of the pattern of non-emergency surgical diseases in Zambian school children was undertaken to identify diseases some of which left untreated can pose a problem in later stages of life. If these diseases are diagnosed then early surgical treatment when indicated would be much better than late. It is, howevet, interesting to note that the percentage incidence and prevalance of the surgical diseases studied amongst children in Lusaka's Primary Schools has demonstrated some resemblence to those observed in the developed Wqrld as published in the literature. It is further to note that except for two isolated studies documenting a particular type of non-emergency surgical diseases in Zambia (29,32,33) similar studies have not been published. This study therefore enables one to make use of the kno .. 'ledge obtained and suggest necessary policy for surgical disease management and prevention.

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Subjects: L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1501 Primary Education
R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
R Medicine > RD Surgery
Divisions: Africana
Depositing User: Geoffrey Obatsa
Date Deposited: 18 Mar 2019 09:57
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2019 09:57
URI: http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/9039

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