Dejan Zurovac
Biographic Data
| ID | 7024372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dejan Zurovac |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dejan |
| FAMILY NAME | Zurovac |
| SIGNATURE | ZUROVAC D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kenya Medical Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8267-9026 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Health worker knowledge of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response standard case definitions
The correct knowledge of standard case definitions was sub-optimal among health workers and their supervisors, which is likely to impact the reliability of routine surveillance reports generated from health facilities
Ownership and use of mobile phones among health workers, caregivers of sick children and adult patients in Kenya
BACKGROUND: The rapid growth in mobile phone penetration and use of Short Message Service (SMS) has been seen as a potential solution to improve medical and public health practice in Africa. Several studies have shown effectiveness of SMS interventions to improve health workers' practices, patients' adherence to medications and availability of health facility commodities. To inform policy makers about the feasibility of facility-based SMS interve…
Progress towards implementation of ACT malaria case-management in public health facilities in the Republic of Sudan
Five years following change of the policy from chloroquine to ACTs and 3 years before the end of the new malaria strategic plan chloroquine was successfully phased out from public facilities in Sudan, however, an important gap remained in the availability of ACTs, diagnostic capacities and coverage with malaria case-management activities. The national scale-up of diagnostics, using the findings of this survey as well as future qualitative researc…
The cost of uncomplicated childhood fevers to Kenyan households
The management of uncomplicated childhood fevers imposes substantial costs on Kenyan households. Achieving substantial improvements in the numbers of fevers treated within 48 hours at a HCF with an effective antimalarial drug (Scenario 1) will not impose additional costs on households. Achieving additional improvements in fevers treated promptly at a HCF (Scenario 2) will impose additional costs on some households roughly equal to average cash ex…
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The cost of uncomplicated childhood fevers to Kenyan households
The management of uncomplicated childhood fevers imposes substantial costs on Kenyan households. Achieving substantial improvements in the numbers of fevers treated within 48 hours at a HCF with an effective antimalarial drug (Scenario 1) will not impose additional costs on households. Achieving additional improvements in fevers treated promptly at a HCF (Scenario 2) will impose additional costs on some households roughly equal to average cash ex…
Progress towards implementation of ACT malaria case-management in public health facilities in the Republic of Sudan
Five years following change of the policy from chloroquine to ACTs and 3 years before the end of the new malaria strategic plan chloroquine was successfully phased out from public facilities in Sudan, however, an important gap remained in the availability of ACTs, diagnostic capacities and coverage with malaria case-management activities. The national scale-up of diagnostics, using the findings of this survey as well as future qualitative researc…
Ownership and use of mobile phones among health workers, caregivers of sick children and adult patients in Kenya
BACKGROUND: The rapid growth in mobile phone penetration and use of Short Message Service (SMS) has been seen as a potential solution to improve medical and public health practice in Africa. Several studies have shown effectiveness of SMS interventions to improve health workers' practices, patients' adherence to medications and availability of health facility commodities. To inform policy makers about the feasibility of facility-based SMS interve…
Health worker knowledge of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response standard case definitions
The correct knowledge of standard case definitions was sub-optimal among health workers and their supervisors, which is likely to impact the reliability of routine surveillance reports generated from health facilities
Environmental health (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Biostatistics (3 works) · Cross-sectional study (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Immunology (2 works)