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Healthy People 2010 seeks to decrease or eliminate the health disparities experienced by disadvantaged minority groups.African American Health (AAH) is a population-based panel study of community-dwelling African Americans born between 1936 and 1950 from two strata. The first encompasses a poor, inner city area, and the second involves a suburban population with higher socioeconomic status. The authors recruited 998 participants (76% recruitment). Frank disability was assessed for 25 tasks...

We studied the level of music loudness to which operators of music recording/retail centre were exposed in order to determine their risk of work-related hearing loss. A survey of consenting operators of music recording centres on six main streets selected by simple random sampling at different locations of the town was carried out using a structured questionnaire. The sound level of the music from the music player speakers in each centre was measured using a sound level meter (Testo 815)...

Purpose The snacking habits of children can be a cause for concern. Little research has been undertaken on the snacking habits of Mauritian schoolchildren. This study was conducted to identify the popular snacks upper primary schoolchildren (8‐12 year old) buy at school. It also aimed at determining the factors that influenced children’s purchase of snacks. Design/methodology/approach Twelve primary schools were selected using stratified random sampling. Thirty children from each school were...

Research was undertaken to assess the role of primary school teachers with regard to the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. Structured and semi‐structured questionnaires were responded to by 210 teachers drawn from primary schools in Eastern Nigeria (with pupils aged 6–15 years). These were supplemented by focus group discussions and key informant interviews. The findings show that the teachers have a reasonably high knowledge of the modes of HIV transmission, the behavioural...

This research examined the sexual behaviour and perception of the risk of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among adolescents in Nigerian secondary schools. Quantitative data was collected from 450 senior secondary school 1 and 2 students who were selected from 5 of the 22 co-educational secondary schools in Ilesa using a multistage sampling technique. In addition qualitative data was collected by focus group discussion (FGD) with 8 groups (4 for each of the sexes) of...

This study examined racial identity attitudes, acculturation, and gender as predictors of psychological health in a sample of African American college students. The participants were 136 undergraduate students who attended a predominantly White midwestern university. Hierarchical regression analysis indicated that gender was a significant predictor and contributed to 3.5% of the variance in psychological health. Acculturation was a significant predictor above and beyond that accounted for by...

This paper addresses the role of classroom discourse in supporting children’s learning in Kenyan primary schools. The discourse strategies of 27 teachers teaching English, mathematics and science across the primary phase were intensively studied using discourse analysis and semi‐structured interviews. A survey questionnaire (n = 359) was also used to explore teacher perceptions of classroom discourse practices. The findings revealed the dominance of teacher‐led recitation in which rote and...

Postgraduate training programs in radiology exist in several African nations. The ability of these programs to train radiologists is necessarily affected by local availability of educational resources, including clinical case volume, radiology equipment and maintenance, number of teaching faculty, and library and computer facilities. We sought to determine the current resources of a sample of African radiology education programs.Site visits were conducted at three separate radiology training...

Education is an important pillar in the national economic development. It contributes to economic growth in varied forms. The educational system in Eritrea shows all the symptoms of prolonged neglect under colonialism and war. But education plays a key role in the development after independence. This paper discusses educational growth and development in post-independent Eritrea. It also analyses educational finances, and challenges for development in the country and thus provides some implications.

The imported models of technical and vocational education, which were developed in a context of economic growth, proved incapable of supplying skilled labour that met the highly varied requirements of Eritrean production systems. The TVET policies followed by the independent Eritrea are aimed at providing the managers and skilled labour, which Eritrea need to support the growth of the modern economy. The government of Eritrea has realized the shortcomings of education and decided to make...

There is no doubt that the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, Supreme Court decision was instrumental in initiating monumental change in the ways public schools have operated. The central question addressed by the Supreme Court in the Brown cases (1954, 1955) was whether segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race deprives minority children of equal educational opportunities even when all else is equal. The author suggests that the problems faced by...

A technical report presented by The Section for Early Childhood and Inclusive Education Division of Basic Education, Education Sector UNESCO, Paris

Evaluating regression of morbidity associated with parasitic infections is an important component of community-based control programmes. We performed an intervention against Schistosoma mansoni infection, focusing on hepatosplenomegaly in the absence of periportal fibrosis, in a cohort of 67 Kenyan children aged 7–18 years from Makueni District, selected on the basis of hepatosplenomegaly detected by ultrasonography. Clinical and ultrasound examinations were conducted annually for three...

Recently discovered mud volcanoes in the Orange Basin, offshore southwestern Africa, denote the existence of neotectonic faults in the submerged continental shelf. Interpretation of seismic lines perpendicular to the trend of the alignment of the mud volcanoes shows flower structures, diagnostic of strike-slip faulting along a N/NNW direction. Analysis at the regional scale of onland neotectonic features in southwestern Africa shows that recent faulting occurred both in central Namibia and...

Abstract The advent of a democratic dispensation in the Republic of South Africa a decade ago has resulted in considerable challenges for the country's architectural practitioners and academics. This article investigates some of the problems, opportunities, and responses of the democracy that has emerged from the repression and isolation of the apartheid era. The effect of local transformations and globalization on South African architects and educational institutions is described, and the...

Research on child survival and health has indicated disparities between boys and girls in selected Middle Eastern countries. Health disparities in later life are understudied in this region. In this article, we examine differences between women and men in later-life activity limitation in Egypt and Tunisia. Difficulty executing physical tasks is more common for women than for men in both study sites, although differences are smaller after adjustment for underlying illness. Differences in the...

Background: Epidemiological information on the prevalence of various intestinal parasitic infections in different regions/localities is a prerequisite to develop appropriate control strategies. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections in schoolchildren found in a rural area close to the southeast of Lake Langano. Methods: In April 2003, fresh stool samples were collected from 259 students enrolled in two primary schools located in...

British administrators and Egyptian nationalists subjected elite Egyptian schoolchildren to a reform of their personal behavior that was designed to fit the needs of the Egyptian state—both as it transformed itself and as it struggled to liberate itself from the British. British government officials called for the creation of more productive, more modern Egyptians to serve the state. The classroom became the laboratory in which Egyptian youth learned and practiced new habits, behaviors, and...