The study found that the cost of fully immunizing a child under 1 year old with the six
antigens in the sri lankan EPI ranged from Rs.61.47 to Rs.369.15(US$1.48 to US$8.89) with
a mean of Rs.183.40 (US$ 4.41) in this ...
A community based descriptive cross sectional study of pregnant women registered over a
specified period in two MOH areas Matara and Akuressa was undertaken.A group of 380
pregnant women consisting of 16.3 per cent ...
The study consisted of two components. Component I was a cross sectional observational
study studied 579 mothers. Component 11 was a community based interventional study
which assessed the effectiveness of the leaflet. ...
Tuberculosis remains as a public health problem since ancient times. Delay in diagnosis of
pulmonary tuberculosis can bring harmful consequences not only to the patients but also to
the community. This study aims to ...
The objectives of this study were to determine the knowledge,attitudes and practices related
to STD and AIDS among youth living in slum and shanty communities in the city of
Colombo and to evaluate the effectiveness of ...
This study was designed to assess the prevalance of condom use and factors affecting
condom use among FSWW attending STD clinic, Colombo such as socio- demographic
characteristics, factors related to their occupation, ...
There was no statistically significant difference in the occurrence of antenatal complications
(GDM, PE, Anaemia, APH) between the two groups. A ststistically significant association
was found between the BMI and the ...
The objectives of this study were to describe the nutritional status of the children in grade I
of the schoolsin the university community health project area and to compare the
behaviour,educational achievement and ...
To assess the institutional post partum services, a sample of thirty one institutions and a
sample of sixty postnatal ward staff in government and plantation institutions were selected.
To assess the domiciliary post ...
Objective of the study was to assess the immunisation status of 0-2 year child in terms of
complete coverage and age appropriate immunisation.To assess the mother's knowledge
about growth monitoring.To assess the mother's ...
Attempts to investigate management capacity of epidemiology with the expectation that the
findings will help mobilize the resources more efficiently by improved case detection in the
national malaria control programme."Early ...
To evaluate the success rate of cervical ripening by foley cather in the pregnant mothers
with past dates ( 40wks+ 7d.), To evaluate maternal and foetal complications of cervical
ripening by foley catheter in the pregnant ...
This study has shown that 95.2 percent of the respondents know about at least one
contraceptive method. 88.3 percent of the respondents know 2 or more contraceptive
methods and 54.9 percent of them know about 3 or more ...
An unmatched case-control study was conducted in order to investigate some of the risk
factors contributing to the development of Rheumatoid Arthritis in adult females.The study
included 106 cases of Rheumatoid Arthritis,and ...
Majority of the patients in the study group comprised of adults (61.5 percent Leukemia was
the most common malignancy (§0.8 percent ) in the study population, followed by solid
tumours (16.8 percent ) and lymphoma (11.9 ...
All primi gravidae, age between 19 - 34years, singleton uncomplicated pregnancies that
delivered after 37 weeks of POA were included into the study population (178 cases). Their
height was recorded at the booking visit ...
To dysfunctional uterine bleeding is defined as abnormal uterine bleeding which is not due
to any organic or structural pathology. It is a diagnosis of exclusion, and is used only when
organic and structural causes for ...
The study revealed that the sero-prevalence of anti-HBc and HBsAg in Colombo district is
5.49 percent (95 percent C.I. 4.42-6.55) and 0.46 percent (95 percent C.I. 0.14-0.77)
respectively. The prevalence of anti-HBc was ...
Objectives of this prospective study was to ascertain the value of these tests in detecting
foetal acidosis. All the mothers from 25 to 35 years of age who underwent cesarean sections
performed by the author from the 1st ...