Prevalence and risk factors of neurological disability and impairment in children living in rural Kenya

V Mung'ala-Odera, R Meehan… - International journal …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… Background There is little data on the burden of neurological impairment (NI) in developing
… in a rural district of Kenya. First, we screened for neurological disability by administering the …

Neurological impairment and disability in children in rural Kenya

JA Abuga, SM Kariuki, A Abubakar… - … & Child Neurology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… and malaria may decrease the neurological disability attributable to these infections. We …
prevalence of neurological impairments from surveys conducted in a defined rural area might …

The burden of neurological impairments and disability in older children measured in disability-adjusted life-years in rural Kenya

JA Abuga, SM Kariuki, A Abubakar… - PLOS global public …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
… years lived with disability (YLDs) for older children in a defined rural setting in Kenya. We …
Premature mortality in children aged 6–9 years with neurological impairments in rural Kenya

Premature mortality in children aged 6–9 years with neurological impairments in rural Kenya: a cohort study

JA Abuga, SM Kariuki, SM Kinyanjui… - The Lancet Global …, 2019 - thelancet.com
… and risk factors of neurological disability and impairment in children living in rural Kenya. …
area in rural Kenya, which might limit the generalisability of the findings to other areas in …

Prevalence and risk factors of neurological impairment among children aged 6–9 years: from population based cross sectional study in western Kenya

Y Kawakatsu, S Kaneko, M Karama, S Honda - BMC pediatrics, 2012 - Springer
… Africa, there are few researches on risk factors of disabilities. The purpose of this study was
to evaluate the risk factors of neurological impairment (NI) among children in western Kenya. …

[HTML][HTML] Healthcare utilization by children with neurological impairments and disabilities in rural Kenya: a retrospective cohort study combined with secondary analysis …

J Abuga, L Mwangi, J Ndolo… - Wellcome Open …, 2022 - wellcomeopenresearch.org
Background : There is a paucity of data on healthcare utilization by children with neurological
impairments (NI) in sub-Saharan Africa. We determined the rate, risk factors, causes, and …

Community-based study of neurological disorders in rural central Ethiopia

R Tekle-Haimanot, M Abebe, A Gebre-Mariam… - …, 1990 - karger.com
Neurological disorders in the rural population were epilepsy, … The prevalence rates of the
other less common neurological … -neurological conditions, blindness, locomotor disability and …

[HTML][HTML] Barriers to access and utilization of healthcare by children with neurological impairments and disability in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic …

LW Mwangi, JA Abuga, E Cottrell… - Wellcome Open …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Neurological impairments (NI) and disability are common among older
children in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). We conducted a systematic review to …

Priority mental, neurological and substance use disorders in rural Kenya: traditional health practitioners' and primary health care workers' perspectives

MA Bitta, SM Kariuki, J Gona, A Abubakar… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
… We conducted a qualitative study in rural coastal Kenya to explore the local terms, … majority
of the disability-adjusted life years associated with mental, neurological and substance use …

Burden of epilepsy in rural K enya measured in disability‐adjusted life years

F Ibinda, RG Wagner, MY Bertram, AK Ngugi… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… This study uses data from Kilifi, a rural area on the Kenyan Coast. The framework of the …
, another coder (Charles Newton, neurologist) was involved as an independent reviewer. The …