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To bring into focus the existence of respiratory hazards due to air pollution as a result of industrialization, tobacco smoking (personal pollution), domestic pollution and vehicular fuel combustion on the African continent; and to stimulate health workers, and the various governments in Africa, to devote more attention to the subject of air pollution by engaging in and encouraging multidisciplinary research so that appropriate and effective control measures can be put in place.Medline...
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Two hundred and seventy seven microorganisms were isolated between February and August 1998 from surgical and medical wards including the haemodialysis unit and microbiology laboratory of a University Teaching Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria. Environmental Contamination was high. Medical and surgical wards accounted for the highest contamination rates of 67% and 63% respectively; followed by the microbiology laboratory, 48% and the Haemodialysis unit, 30%. Within the wards, the areas most...
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Two hundred and seventy seven microorganisms were isolated between February and August 1998 from surgical and medical wards including the haemodialysis unit and microbiology laboratory of a University Teaching Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria. Environmental Contamination was high. Medical and surgical wards accounted for the highest contamination rates of 67% and 63% respectively; followed by the microbiology laboratory, 48% and the Haemodialysis unit, 30%. Within the wards, the areas most...
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In this article, Kimberley Porteus and colleagues analyse the factors underlying school non‐attendance in three poor, marginalised communities in South Africa. The findings reveal that ‘poverty’, including the interaction between physical, social and psychological factors, has by far the greatest influence on children's being out of school. The study concludes that poverty needs to be addressed as a priority if the very notion of ‘inclusion’ is to have meaning in South African society.
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C HILDREN ARE BEING formed today as they imbibe what they see and hear in their various cultures--homes, schools, television-land, the wider society. Some of the obtainable information, whether desirable or not, whether true or not, comes to rest within the child and grows there with the individual. dollars later doled out to counselors of one type or another symbolize years unhappily spent with what was once ingested, with what became rooted notions of how the world works, how it ought to...
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To examine what factors African American women with one or more physical disabilities perceive as barriers to exercise and how they rank them.Department of Disability and Human Development at a major university.Data were collected through telephone interview using a newly developed instrument (Barriers to Physical Exercise and Disability [B-PED]) that addressed issues related to physical activity and the subjects' disability.Fifty subjects were asked questions about their participation and...
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To examine what factors African American women with one or more physical disabilities perceive as barriers to exercise and how they rank them.Department of Disability and Human Development at a major university.Data were collected through telephone interview using a newly developed instrument (Barriers to Physical Exercise and Disability [B-PED]) that addressed issues related to physical activity and the subjects' disability.Fifty subjects were asked questions about their participation and...
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To examine what factors African American women with one or more physical disabilities perceive as barriers to exercise and how they rank them.Department of Disability and Human Development at a major university.Data were collected through telephone interview using a newly developed instrument (Barriers to Physical Exercise and Disability [B-PED]) that addressed issues related to physical activity and the subjects' disability.Fifty subjects were asked questions about their participation and...
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To examine what factors African American women with one or more physical disabilities perceive as barriers to exercise and how they rank them.Department of Disability and Human Development at a major university.Data were collected through telephone interview using a newly developed instrument (Barriers to Physical Exercise and Disability [B-PED]) that addressed issues related to physical activity and the subjects' disability.Fifty subjects were asked questions about their participation and...
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Both redbilled oxpeckers (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) and yellowbilled oxpeckers (Buphagus africanus) have experienced recent population decreases in southern Africa largely as a result of cattle dipping against ticks, their primary source of food. In Namibia, oxpeckers are confined largely to the Caprivi region in the north-east and the yellowbilled oxpecker is classified as a Namibian Red Data species. Counts in 1983–1984 estimated populations of 2285–3780 redbilled oxpeckers and 2062–2613...
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African American students’ beliefs about the value of getting a good education have long been debated. The present study demonstrates that African American students hold a variety of perspectives about the value of education, and that certain types of beliefs naturally occur in students with certain academic performance records. Cluster analysis was used to identify five clusters of 126 African American college students with differing profiles on Idealistic Educational Utility,...
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To investigate the effects of a four month endurance training programme on body composition and reproductive hormone levels.PRE and POST training comparative study.Zimbabwe Military Academy, Gweru, Zimbabwe.77 male recruit volunteers participating in the Zimbabwe Defence Forces cadet training programme.Percent body fat, fat free mass, body mass index, total serum testosterone, luteinising hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) compared using the paired t-test.There was a...
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Prevention of smoking is a public health goal recognized worldwide. Though the role played by physicians is an important one, data in the literature indicate that medical school is a poor place to learn it. In 1997, we conducted a study among medical students at Monastir Tunisia to examine their smoking behavior and attitudes towards smoking and their participation in prevention. The study included 93.3% (N = 501) of the students in their 1st, 4th and 5th years of medical school. One-third...