“Sleep hygiene” refers to healthy habits, behaviours and environmental factors that can be adjusted to help you have a good sleep. Adequate sleep is an important precursor to health, but students often do not prioritize ...
Dewanarayana, Y.C; Garsha, K. A. H; Silva, Y. S. L. S; Thanushiya, J(FHCS, EUSL, 2023-02)
Blood donation is a vital practice in ensuring safe and adequate supply of blood. It enables blood transfusion activities to be carried out without interruption in order to ensure adequate improved patient survival in the ...
The current economic crisis in Sri Lanka has resulted in a catastrophic food scarcity, with the country's 21 million citizens now having to spend three times as much for essential foods. Decreases in incomes, increases in ...
RTA is one of the significant causes of morbidity and mortality. It is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide. But these are preventable injuries which are still overloading the already stretched health care system. ...
Ditharshanna, M; Abhinesh, S; Vijitra, Y; Dayalshiya, P(FHCS, EUSL, 2023-02)
Diabetes mellitus (DM) contributes to nearly 1.5 million deaths annually. World Health Organization declared that prevalence of DM has been rising more rapidly, which is 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. In Sri ...
Nutrition is a critical part of health and development. Pregnancy is a constructive metabolic process and women’s normal nutritional requirement increases during pregnancy to meet the needs of growing fetus and the maternal ...
Social media is at the forefront of digital technology, embedded as a facet of modern-day life. Checking and scrolling through social media has become an increasingly popular activity over the last decade. According to the ...
Peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVC) are medical devices most frequently used during hospital care. Although the frequency of specific PIVC related adverse effect has been reported during the insertion time, indwelling ...
Heart failure is an ultimate clinical outcome, resulted from either structural or functional dysfunction of ventricular filling or ejection of blood .Heart failure had been the underlying cause for the majority of death ...
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) has become a global burden and affects more than 10% of the population. There are many triggering factors which cause progressive and irreversible damage to the kidneys. Diabetes Mellitus (DM) ...
In 2021 the Sri Lankan government officially declared the worst economic crisis in the country. Due to current ongoing economic crisis in Sri Lanka is affecting the whole sectors in the country. As the undergraduate students, ...
Cesarean section (CS) rates have been rising around the world despite no associated improvement in maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. Maternal preference was mostly cited nonmedical factors contributing to the ...
Children are different from adults as they are not taking medicines by themselves. Medications have to be administered by primary caregivers to children. Insufficient knowledge of medication administration in primary ...
Leprosy also known as Hansen’s disease is a chronic progressive bacterial infection caused by mycobacterium Leprae. It remains a serious public health problem due to its ability to cause disability. Sri Lanka currently ...