Dan Kajungu

Datos Biográficos

ID7002376
NOMBREDan Kajungu
NOMBRESDan
APELLIDOKajungu
FIRMAKAJUNGU D
AFILIACIONESMakerere University
ORCID0000-0002-3363-7062
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS15
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR10
TOTAL COMO EDITOR5
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2013
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Climate-driven malaria mortality among children in malaria-endemic areas of Uganda

    Open AccessAgnes Kiragga, Flavian Otieno et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Malaria is a major disease in Africa and is among the leading causes of mortality among children. The disease is highly sensitive to climate change. Prior studies have established a link between climatic factors and malaria mortality, but the evidence specifically related to children in sub-Saharan Africa remains inconsistent and requires further investigation. This study examined the impact of climate variables on malaria mortality in the Iganga…

  • Building citizen science intelligence for outbreak preparedness and response

    Open AccessYi-Roe Tan, Manh Duc Nguyen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    INTRODUCTION: Citizen science (CS) is an emerging approach in public health to harness the collective intelligence of individuals to augment traditional scientific efforts. However, citizens' viewpoint, especially the hard-to-reach population, is lacking in current outbreak-related literature. We aim to understand the awareness, readiness and feasibility of outbreak-related CS, including digitally enabled CS, in low-income and middle-income count…

  • Geographical, sex, and socioeconomic differences in non-communicable disease indicators

    Open AccessGulam Muhammed Al Kibria, Ankita Meghani et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is increasing in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This study examined differences in the burden of NCDs and their risk factors according to geographic, sex, and sociodemographic characteristics in a rural and peri-urban community in Eastern Uganda. We compared the prevalence by sex, location, wealth, and education. Unadjusted and adjusted prevalence ratios (PR) were reported. Indica…

  • Interdisciplinary perspectives on multimorbidity in Africa

    Open AccessJustin Dixon, Ben Morton et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Multimorbidity is an emerging challenge for health systems globally. It is commonly defined as the co-occurrence of two or more chronic conditions in one person, but its meaning remains a lively area of academic debate, and the utility of the concept beyond high-income settings is uncertain. This article presents the findings from an interdisciplinary research initiative that drew together 60 academic and applied partners working in 10 African co…

  • The epidemiology of behavioral risk factors for noncommunicable disease and hypertension

    Open AccessDustin G Gibson, Ankita Meghani et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    In light of the suboptimal noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factor surveillance efforts, the study’s main objectives were to: (i) characterize the epidemiological profile of NCD risk factors; (ii) estimate the prevalence of hypertension; and (iii) identify factors associated with hypertension in a peri-urban and rural Ugandan population. A population-based cross-sectional survey of adults was conducted at the Iganga-Mayuge Health and Demographi…

  • Comparison of causes of stillbirth and child deaths as determined by verbal autopsy and minimally invasive tissue sampling

    Open AccessNega Assefa, Anthony Scott et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    In resource-limited settings where vital registration and medical death certificates are unavailable or incomplete, verbal autopsy (VA) is often used to attribute causes of death (CoD) and prioritize resource allocation and interventions. We aimed to determine the CoD concordance between InterVA and CHAMPS’s method. The causes of death (CoDs) of children

  • Use of standardised patients to assess tuberculosis case management by private pharmacies in Patna, India

    Open AccessAnita Svadzian, Sebastian D Huber et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    As the first point of care for many healthcare seekers, private pharmacies play an important role in tuberculosis (TB) care. However, previous studies in India have showed that private pharmacies commonly dispense symptomatic treatments and broad-spectrum antibiotics over-the-counter (OTC), rather than referring patients for TB testing. Such inappropriate management by pharmacies can delaye TB diagnosis. We assessed medical advice and OTC drug di…

  • Developing digital tools for health surveys in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessGulam Muhammed Al Kibria, Saifuddin Ahmed et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factor data from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are inadequate, mostly due to the cost and burden of collecting in-person population-level estimates. High-income countries regularly use phone-based surveys, and with increasing mobile phone subscription in developing countries, mobile phone surveys (MPS) could complement in-person surveys in LMICs. We compared the representativeness and prevalence esti…

  • Decentralizing cancer care in sub-Saharan Africa through an integrated regional cancer centre model

    Open AccessMary Nyangasi, Angela McLigeyo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    For 50 years, comprehensive cancer treatment services were provided at one public hospital and a few private facilities in the capital city. In 2019, the services were decentralized to new national and regional centers to increase service accessibility using an integration model. This study aimed to analyze the status of the utilization of services at regional cancer centers. We analyzed data from the district health information system, focusing …

  • From biorepositories to data repositories

    Open AccessRoger Peck, Helen L Storey et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Diagnostics are critical tools that guide clinical decision-making for patient care and support disease surveillance. Despite its importance, developers and manufacturers often note that access to specimen panels and essential reagents is one of the key challenges in developing quality diagnostics, particularly in low-resource settings. A recent example, as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded there was a need for clinical samples across the globe to s…

  • The Extent of Universal Health Coverage for Maternal Health Services in Eastern Uganda

    Open AccessClara Lindberg, Tryphena Nareeba et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2021

    Maternal health coverage in eastern Uganda is not universal and particularly low for postnatal visit, effective antenatal care and financial coverage. Analysing healthcare payments and quality by healthcare provider sector is potential future research

  • Postneonatal under-5 mortality in peri-urban and rural Eastern Uganda, 2005–2015

    Open AccessAkihiko Hirose, Dan Kajungu et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    INTRODUCTION: Community and individual sociodemographic characteristics play an important role in child survival. However, a question remains how urbanisation and demographic changes in sub-Saharan Africa affect community-level determinants for child survival. METHODS: Longitudinal data from the Iganga/Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site was used to obtain postneonatal under-5 mortality rates between March 2005 and February 2015 in pe…

  • Adaptation and validation of Unicef/Washington group child functioning module at the Iganga-Mayuge health and demographic surveillance site in Uganda

    Open AccessNukhba Zia, Mitchell Loeb et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    CFM is a two-factor, valid and reliable scale for assessing disability in Uganda and can be applied to other similar settings to contribute towards disability data from the region. It is an easy-to-administer tool that can help in deeper understanding of context-specific burden and extent of disability in children between 5 and 17 years of age

  • “Every Newborn-INDEPTH” (EN-INDEPTH) study protocol for a randomised comparison of household survey modules for measuring stillbirths and neonatal deaths in five Health and Demographic Surveillance si…

    Open AccessAngela Baschieri, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2019

    BACKGROUND: may underestimate mortality rates particularly for stillbirths. METHODS: and FPH to measure pregnancy outcomes in a household survey in five selected INDEPTH Network sites in Africa and South Asia (Bandim in urban and rural Guinea-Bissau; Dabat in Ethiopia; IgangaMayuge in Uganda; Kintampo in Ghana; Matlab in Bangladesh). The survey will reach >68 000 pregnancies to assess if there is ≥15% difference in stillbirth rates. Additional qu…

  • Predictors of antibiotics co-prescription with antimalarials for patients presenting with fever in rural Tanzania

    Open AccessMustafa Njozi, Mbaraka Amuri et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013

    Regardless the fact that Malaria is declining but due to lack of laboratories and mRDT in most health facilities in the rural areas, clinicians are still treating malaria presumptively. This leads them to prescribe more drugs to treat all possibilities