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Lifestyle and Health:Understanding the prevalence of hypertension among the elderly persons in Kiruddu Referral Hospital, Kampala District
(Makerere University, 2021-11)
This study examined health and lifestyle of the elderly persons with hypertension in Kiruddu Referral Hospital in Kampala district. It assessed the prevalence and trend of hypertension, examined how individual lifestyle ...
Social media use, social interaction and academic engagement of undergraduate students at Makerere University
(Makerere University, 2021-03-26)
The purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between social media use, social interaction, and academic engagement of undergraduate students at Makerere University. The objectives were to establish the relationship ...
Resilience in mobilising and sustaining access to resources for managing HIV: A study of clients on antiretroviral therapy in Central Uganda
(Makerere University, 2021-02)
Since the early 2000s, free antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been scaled up in Uganda and other resource-poor settings. However, socio-economic limitations continue making it difficult for people living with HIV (PLHIV) ...
The role of community based-organizations in improving the welfare of women in Kawempe Division, Kampala City
(Makerere University, 2021-02)
This study examined the role of Kawempe Home-Based Caregivers Alliance (KHBCA), a Community-Based Organization (CBO) in improving the wellbeing of its female members. Specifically, the study aimed to: analyze the recruitment ...
The constructions of Ebola and the struggle against the epidemic in Bundibugyo District
(Makerere University, 2021-03)
There was an Ebola outbreak in Western Uganda in the Bundibugyo. The outbreak which started in 2007, never received biomedical response for three months. However, as the national and international response teams arrived ...
Applicative verbs in Ruruuli-Lunyala : structure and meaning
(Makerere University, 2021-02-10)
Applied verbs in Bantu languages have largely been investigated as allowing a new object NP within the subcategorization of their base verb, leading to a change of valency with the new NP often giving a certain thematic ...
The contribution of public policy initiatives in addressing unemployment In Kampala
(Makerere University, 2021-02)
The study looked at the contribution of public policy in addressing unemployment in Kampala located in the Central part of Uganda. The research was guided by four specific objectives; ascertaining what sort of entrepreneurial ...
Negotiating social identities in Makumbi’s Kintu, Isegawa’s Abyssinian Chronicles and Ocen’s The Alien Woman
(Makerere University, 2021-04)
This dissertation is premised on the understanding that identity is malleable, changeable and, hence, negotiable. The core interest of the study was to investigate the literary modes of representing social identity and the ...
Human-environment interactions of the Palabek Cultural Landscapes in the last 2000 years
(Makerere University, 2021-04)
The general perception of pioneering archaeological researchers in Uganda was that northern Uganda and Palabek, in particular, was dry and sparsely populated land, not conducive to human habitation, and hence no archaeological ...
Resisting resettlement : factors underlying the return of the Bududa 2010 mudslide survivors resettled in Kiryandongo Bududa district
(Makerere University, 2021-02-26)
The main objective of the study was to analyze the factors underlying the return of the Bududa mudslide survivors resettled in Kiryandongo following the 2010 mudslide in Bukalasi Sub-County in Bududa district. The study ...