Abstract
Infection prevention, control and health promotion have been a serious challenge to the public health sector in Cameroon in general and in the Bamenda health district in particular. This has led to an upsurge of many infectious diseases and epidemics in recent times. It has been aggravated by the advent of the Ebola hemorrhagic disease in neighboring countries and other existing epidemics such as Poliomyelitis, Cholera, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and Measles. This survey compares the infection prevention, control and health promotion practices in public health facilities with those in the confessional and private health facilities. From the analyses, the number of males with sound practices doubled that of females, thus proving to be of statistical significance. Denominational or confessional health facilities equally recorded a high percentage of sound practice followed by private health facilities and then government-owned health facilities. There is also a significant relationship between “level of knowledge’’ and “infection prevention, control and health promotion practice’’ from this study.
Highlights
In the Bamenda health district there has been an upsurge of many infectious diseases and epidemics in recent times, aggravated by diseases such as Poliomyelitis, Cholera, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Measles etc
This acquisition of knowledge and aptitudes is a positive reinforcement and motivating factor which greatly influences the attitude of the personnel in terms of their infection prevention, control and health promotion practices (Fig. 1)
When the independent variables were regressed against level of performance,it was noticed that the other variables, namely, Sex, Type of Health Facility, Locality, Level of Knowledge and Attitude were not significantly associated with infection prevention control and health promotion practices in the Bamenda Health District
Summary
In the Bamenda health district there has been an upsurge of many infectious diseases and epidemics in recent times, aggravated by diseases such as Poliomyelitis, Cholera, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Measles etc This notwithstanding, it is worth of note that infection transmission can be quite common, understandably due to patient/client care activities in the hospital milieu. The institutional factors such as human, material and financial resources will facilitate the acquisition of professional knowledge and aptitudes by the personnel especially as concerns aseptic technique, sterilization, hygiene and sanitation This acquisition of knowledge and aptitudes is a positive reinforcement and motivating factor which greatly influences the attitude of the personnel in terms of their infection prevention, control and health promotion practices (Fig. 1)
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