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Unregulated use of pesticides continues in developing countries in the presence of illiteracy and limited safety training and practices. This paper describes training and safety practices when mixing and spraying pesticides, and acetylcholinesterase levels among women farmers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.A cross-sectional study conducted in women working in small-scale agriculture in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa in 2006 assessed pesticide training and safety practices using a...
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As the shift towards inclusive education intensifies, the need for school to work collaboratively with families becomes necessary for the sake of maximizing students’ academic success. However, in certain communities such effort is often undermined by various factors which interact directly and/or indirectly with both institutions – school and family. Schools located in informal settlements of South Africa are not unique to this situation. This paper presents the perspectives of parents,...
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Objective: To assess the oral health knowledge, attitudes and practices of the parents/ guardians of pre-school children in Moshi, Tanzania.Design: Cross-sectional study.Setting: Moshi Municipality,
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In KwaZulu-Natal more than 50% of the population lives in the rural area but most of the health workers are based in urban centres where teaching hospitals and high incomes are common. Nursing provides the backbone of health care in the public sector. Specialist nurses such as advanced midwives or specialist HIV nurses are in short supply. Teaching via live synchronous videoconference (VC) provides an opportunity to extend specialist education to nurses at rural hospitals. Aim: The aim of...
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Uganda has an acute problem of inadequate human resources partly due to health professionals' unwillingness to work in a rural environment. One strategy to address this problem is to arrange health professional training in rural environments through community placements. Makerere University College of Health Sciences changed training of medical students from the traditional curriculum to a problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum in 2003. This curriculum is based on the SPICES model...
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This paper examined the number of qualified teachers and its relationship to students' academic performance in public secondary schools in a sample of Local Government Areas (LGA) of Osun State. This descriptive study used a post-hoc dataset. An instrument titled “Quantity and Quality of Teachers and Students' Academic Performance” (QQTSAP) was used for the study. Twenty-one (21) public secondary schools, one in each LGA from a population of thirty-one (31) LGA in the State, were sampled....
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African American perspectives on leadership in schools: Building a Culture of Empowerment Foster, L., & Tillman, L. C. (2009). Lanham, Maryland: Rowan & Littlefield Education. Introduction Tillman and Foster's (2009) African American Perspectives on Leadership in Schools: Building a Culture of Empowerment is an edited volume that pulls together a wide range of historical, philosophical, pedagogical, cultural and data-driven viewpoints in a discussion of the ways schools can better educate...
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A partnership that was established to provide cross-cultural learning for senior-level community health nursing students from the United States also provided a learning opportunity for nurses at a pediatric neurosurgical hospital in Uganda. The faculty who accompanied the students on the study abroad to the CURE Children’s Hospital of Uganda provided an educational session on critical thinking in response to request from the hospital administrators. Learning outcomes were evidenced through...
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The study has explored the adoption of indigenous knowledge systems of local populations living at the margins of protected areas to promote community conservation education.It assessed the ethno-ecology and ethno-biology knowledge of valuable wild and cultivated plant species by local people inhabiting the 'support zone' of the Cross River National Park, South-Eastern Nigeria.It explored paradigms for the successful convergence of 'insiders' local knowledge with the 'outsiders'...
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Little is known about the association between methamphetamine use and sexual risk behaviors among young South African women between 13 and 20 years of age.To examine the association between methamphetamine use and condom use among out-of-school South African female adolescents.Black and Coloured female adolescents were interviewed and categorized into methamphetamine user (n = 261) or non-user (n = 188) groups.Methamphetamine use was reported by 58% of the total sample. Higher...
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It is common among Nigerian parents to prevent their adolescents from receiving information abota sexuality, believing, erroneously, that ignorance would enable them maintain chastity. Often, this overlooked aspect of essential family responsibility is taken over by peers who usually give false, incomplete and misleading sexual orientation. Consequently, adolescents with poor assertive skills engage in premarital sex and face the concomitant effects, such as unplanned pregnancy, abortion,...