Maria Ruth Holden

Maria Ruth Holden
University of Nottingham | Notts · Division of Nursing

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The potential for biogas to fulfil an integral role in promoting sustainable energy solutions, particularly in the Global South, is evident, and especially pertinent in the Sustainable Development Goal era. Internationally, multiple initiatives driven by private, public and third sectors have resulted in a significant growth in the numbers of bioga...
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Background There is an urgent need to empower practitioners to undertake quality improvement (QI) projects in burn services in low-middle income countries (LMICs). We piloted a course aimed to equip nurses working in these environments with the knowledge and skills to undertake such projects. Methods Eight nurses from five burns services across Ma...
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Background Burn injuries disproportionally affect the world’s poorest populations. However, there has been a lack of research that has investigated the social, cultural or contextual factors associated with this injury mechanism in these areas. As a result, there is a scarcity of information from which to develop culturally appropriate and targeted...
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Background Malawian children are at high risk of burn injuries due to the nature of their environments and paucity of burn prevention programmes. Moreover, data which reports the burden of burn injuries has often been limited to the interpretation of hospital-based records which only provides the pattern of burns which attend medical facilities, bu...
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Background: Burn injuries disproportionally affect the world’s poorest regions. However, there is a lack of data from these areas to determine the true extent of this public health problem. Children in Malawi are at high risk of burn injuries and poor health because of the nature of their environment, and the paucity of burn prevention programmes....
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Background Burn injury rates are especially high in Africa where exposure to unsafe cooking appliances and open fires pose significant dangers to children. While it has been suggested that the use of improved cookstoves (ICS) may mitigate a child’s exposure to burn injuries more evidence is needed. The aim of this study is to explore factors which...
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To mitigate the impact of: excess pollution, deforestation and injuries attributable to cookstoves in low-middle income countries, humanitarian and private sector organisations have made a commitment to distribute 100 million improved cookstoves (ICS) by 2020. In order to evaluate the safety of these ICS for the end users, a ten test ‘Biomass Stove...

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