Location
Buller Hall 150
Event Website
https://ahsra.andrews.edu/ahsra-2025/
Start Date
27-6-2025 10:00 AM
End Date
27-6-2025 11:00 AM
Description
Adults under the age of 70 in Sub-Saharan Africa face a higher probability of death from non-communicable diseases than adults of the same age in the Established Market Economies. A team from Andrews university in collaboration with the health unit of the Northeast Tanzania Conference (NETC), collaboratively conducted a community needs assessment and on lifestyle diseases in Kihurio village in December 2017 and found that over half of the attendee had hypertension. Focus group discussions with the community also listed hypertension and diabetes as one of the major health problems. This study was a follow up to determine the prevalence of hypertension and identify risk factors.
Prevalence of lifestyle diseases among adult males and females in Kihurio village Tanzania: A health assessment.
Buller Hall 150
Adults under the age of 70 in Sub-Saharan Africa face a higher probability of death from non-communicable diseases than adults of the same age in the Established Market Economies. A team from Andrews university in collaboration with the health unit of the Northeast Tanzania Conference (NETC), collaboratively conducted a community needs assessment and on lifestyle diseases in Kihurio village in December 2017 and found that over half of the attendee had hypertension. Focus group discussions with the community also listed hypertension and diabetes as one of the major health problems. This study was a follow up to determine the prevalence of hypertension and identify risk factors.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/ahsra/2025/presentations/25