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High risk pregnancies continue to be associated with high perinatal mortality and morbidity in developing countries. Korle Bu Teaching Hospital is no exception with a perinatal mortality rate of 98.7/1000 births. Multiple factors resulting in this include the high risk nature of the pregnancies resulting in increased incidence of premature deliveries and asphyxiated babies, the delay in transfer of the sick neonate as well as the inadequate mode of transfer. The type of delivery other than...

INTRODUCTION After a protracted armed struggle for liberation from the colonial apartheid government of South Africa, Namibia became an independent nation in 1990. Although the apartheid forces were defeated, the legacies of the illegal and repressive regime, including an educational system shaped by divisive and dehumanizing imperialist policies, remained. As they abolished the discriminatory and inequitable Bantu educational system and developed a new praxis, the Namibian government...

The dismal health status of African Americans compared to the general population has sparked major concerns in research and public health domains. African Americans are habitually over represented in chronic and preventable diseases (Belgrave, Molock, Kelley, & Nana-Sinham, 1991; Feldman & Fulwood, 1999; Ford & Goode, 1994; Reed, 1996; Thompson & Chambers, 2000; Walden, 1994). A flurry of research has proffered explanations that speculate to what causes or exacerbates poor health conditions...

Introduction Differences between African and European Americans' academic and intellectual abilities and performance has been a perennial issue in the social sciences (Guthrie, 1999). Notwithstanding historic explanations that attributed these differences, either implicitly or explicitly, to inferior genetic predispositions and/or environmental conditions among African Americans, more recent research in this area has attempted to account for these differences. This line of research has...

Abstract This paper sets out to identify some key problems, issues and challenges relating to out‐of‐school experiences of learners in science teaching that emerged during classroom observations in schools in Botswana. Generally, there is evidence suggesting weak incorporation of learners' experiences into teaching. The experiences seemed to have a lower teaching priority than did formal universally accepted canonical science concepts. The study revealed that the relative merits of the...

Abstract. A case of community‐based service learning in the School of Theology at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa is analyzed for what it means to teach biblical studies in an African context where biblical scholarship is partially constituted by ordinary African readers of the Bible and where context is a central pedagogical concept. Reflecting on a series of experiments over the past ten years in two second‐year University level modules, the article analyzes the...

A retrospective audit of the first twelve months of out patient drug treatment of hypertension at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital during the period 1973-1993 is reported. A previous study had shown that at least 7 drug regimes were used to treat hypertension at Korle-Bu during the period. The aim of the present study was to compare the effect and efficacy of these antihypertensive drug treatment regimes on blood pressure during the first 12 months of treatment. Result of 155 (47%) case notes,...

Governments and aid donor agencies worldwide have acknowledged the importance of female literacy as a prerequisite for development. At the Jomtien Conference (1990) the importance of universal education was delineated in the policy Education for All (EFA). Indeed, EFA is seen as a strategy for introducing children, especially girls, to conventional schooling. Whilst some progress has been made, retention of girls in schools presents a major obstacle to the fulfilment of the EFA vision,...

Health risk behaviour contributes markedly to today's major killers. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted to assess current awareness and practice of health risk behaviour among Egyptian university students. Only 121 students (18%) were practising risky behaviour. Tobacco use, alcohol and drugs use and risky sexual behaviour were positively correlated. Multiple regression analysis revealed that the main determinants of risky behaviour were being a male, of older age, having a...

Abstract This study examines die associations between compulsive eating and selected substance abuse factors. Respondents were incoming African-American community college students (N = 374). Instruments completed by the respondents consisted of the Compulsive Eating Scale, the Core Alcohol and Drug Survey, and Satisfaction With Life Scale. No strong associations were found between compulsive eating, satisfaction with life, and the substance abuse factors examined, including reported family...

Kenya, an East African country has 38 Boarding schools and units for the hearing impaired. This includes three (3) secondary schools. Communication has been identified as one of the greatest areas of difficulty for the deaf. Both the receptive and expressive communication pose barriers in almost all aspects of life of the deaf. This study endeavors to examine teachers' perceptions of communication needs of deaf children in Kenyan school system. It is believed that teachers being the major...

This study investigated the efficacy of group counselling on the study habit patterns of adult students on Sandwich/Part-time programme in the Faculty of Education, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye. A simple pre-test and post-test experimental research design was used on a sample of 60 adult students who were randomly selected from a group of identified 99 students with deficient study habit patterns. The study Skill and Study Habits Inventory (SSHI) developed by Adedipe (1998) was...

Hypertension plays a major role in morbidity and mortality in Nigeria. Evidence from developed countries showed that intensive patient education has resulted in improved compliance to therapy reducing morbidity and mortality. There was a need to explore the impact of health educational intervention on the blood pressure control among elderly hypertensives. Ninety-five hypertensive patients aged sixty and above attending the Hypertension Clinic of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital were...

The effect of a training programme is the change observed in the behaviour, attitude, abilities and effectiveness of the trainee after the training activity. Therefore, the importance of training on book workers or organizations cannot be overemphasized. A number of both quantifiable and unquantifiable resources go into a management-training programme. The unquantifiable inputs do not lend themselves to quantitative evaluation. Yet evaluation of these aspects of the programme cannot be...

This paper assessed the extent of the realization of the objectives of nomadic education programme in the northeast sub-region of Nigeria. The study showed that the programme performed satisfactorily and the impact on the nomads is significant. There are however some major problems militating against effective implementation of the programme. There is a need therefore for the federal government to enforce the 1965 grazing reserve law, make provision for nomadic secondary education programme...

Many students enter schools and colleges with remarkably poor study habits and skills, which may not be their fault. Experience has even shown that educational system of this country does not make provision generally in the way of formal instruction on good study habits and skills. Be that as it may, the current paper would remedy to some extent the oversight by offering the insights into some psychological principles and techniques that can facilitate academic achievement of Nigerian...

Describes the main legislative provisions in place in the Seychelles concerning the employment of people with disabilities and reviews the implementation of the legislation.

Examines legislation concerning the promotion of employment and training opportunities for people with disabilities, identifies implementation mechanisms and suggests improvements.

This study investigates whether employers in developing countries use education as a signal for employees’ productivity using data for Ghana manufacturing. Evidence is found supportive of this for individuals who were not hired through direct contacts in the firm, and thus for individuals for whom employers are likely to have relatively less information about their productive abilities. This result seems to rest on adequately controlling for on-the-job-training.