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Correlates Of Self-Rated Health Among Youth In Kampala Slums, Uganda, Annabel Patterson

Public Health Theses

INTRODUCTION: Self-rated physical health is a valuable measure that has been utilized to determine a person’s perception of health, which is dependent on their biological, emotional, physical, cognitive, and social context. This measure has been used throughout the world but has not been utilized as a marker for health and well-being among adolescent youth living in the slums of Kampala, Uganda.

AIM: This thesis aims to determine how youth in Kampala slums rate their physical health and determine the associations between self-rated health and a range of risk behaviors across domains such as demographic characteristics, mental health, violence, substance use, …

Hiv Testing During Antenatal Care In Eastern & Southern Africa: How Do Adolescents And Young Women Fare?, Claire Young

Public Health Theses

Background

To validate Elimination of Mother to Child HIV Transmission (eMTCT), pregnant women must receive antenatal care (ANC) HIV testing. Given challenges for adolescent girls in ANC, we hypothesized that adolescents were less likely to receive ANC HIV testing in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA).

Methods

For 10 ESA countries, we use 2015-2018 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to study 46,056 women attending ANC and giving birth in the last three years. We used age-stratified (15-19, 20-24, and 25-49 years of age at time of delivery) crude and adjusted logistic regressions to assess predictive factors for ANC HIV testing, both …