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Background: Students of higher educational institution are at higher risk of substance abuse. Currently, substance abuse is one of the most burning public health problems in Ethiopia. Although it has been known that this public health problem is a pressing issue, the real extent and magnitude of drug abuse is not yet properly explored. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted to determine the overall prevalence of substance abuse among students and factors associated with it. Simple...

Anaemia is the most widespread nutrition related public health problem world-wide and yet in Uganda, there is little national data on anaemia and its likely causes amongst school children. The aim of this st udy was to assess the prevalence, dietary and health risk factors of nutritional anaemia amongst 11-14 year old girls attending primary schools in Masindi District of Western Uganda. Two schools, one urban and the other rural, were selected for this cross-sectional study. A total of 109...

Anaemia is the most widespread nutrition related public health problem world-wide and yet in Uganda, there is little national data on anaemia and its likely causes amongst school children. The aim of this st udy was to assess the prevalence, dietary and health risk factors of nutritional anaemia amongst 11-14 year old girls attending primary schools in Masindi District of Western Uganda. Two schools, one urban and the other rural, were selected for this cross-sectional study. A total of 109...

The Plankenburg and Eerste Rivers (Western Cape) have been reported to be contaminated with faecal coliforms.Water is drawn from both rivers for irrigation of fresh produce.The potential risk in the use of these rivers as irrigation sources was assessed by determining the fluctuations of 'indicator' and 'index' microbes over 3 years.Selected physico-chemical (water temperature, pH, COD, conductivity and alkalinity) and microbiological parameters, including coliforms, faecal coliforms,...

Schistosomiasis control efforts mainly target school-aged children. We studied the epidemiology of schistosomiasis in two high-risk communities in south Côte d'Ivoire, placing particular emphasis on pre-school-aged children. We used a suite of diagnostic techniques, including Kato-Katz, urine filtration, reagent strips, and urine circulating cathodic antigen cassettes. Risk factors for schistosomiasis were determined by focus group discussions and a structured questionnaire. The prevalence...

Recently, the Kenyan government reaffirmed its commitment to enabling majority of its citizen’s access to education through establishment of free primary education program and subsidizing secondary education. However, despite all these efforts, the education sector continues to face myriads of problems, major one being skewed performance in Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) across the many regions of the country. Gatanga...

The present day tectonic deformation within Egypt is related to the regional tectonic forces of the surrounding plate boundaries including the African–Eurasian plate margin, the Red Sea plate margin and the Levant transform fault in addition to the local tectonics of Egypt. Based on the spatial distribution of earthquake epicenters in Egypt, the most seismically active areas are located in the Northern Red Sea, Gulf of Suez, Gulf of Aqaba and Mediterranean coastal zone. On 30 January 2012, a...

In many low-income countries, the disease burden is high but health workers are scarce. To increase the number of health workers, one of the most urgent tasks is to produce more health workers. Grounded in the disciplinary focus of pharmacy, this research looks for alternative, innovative strategies to build the capacity of an education institution in a resource-poor setting. Malawi was chosen as a case study country because of its newly established pharmacy degree programme. A broadly...

RESUMEL'atmosphère dans la ville de Cotonou au Bénin en Afrique de l'Ouest, se caractérise par la présence de poussières soulevées au cours de la circulation sur toutes les voies et presque partout dans cette ville, par d'épaisses fumées opaques, en particulier au niveau des grandes artères et des carrefours.Ce phénomène est lié à une utilisation des moto à deux roues notamment les taxis-moto appelés « Zémidjan » dont le nombre en 2005 est estimé à 96.095 selon les statistiques de la mairie...

The study purposed to find primary school teachers’ knowledge and skills of measurement and assessment and to elicit their views of teacher role of measurement and assessment. Within a descriptive survey, a questionnaire was used to collect data. The sample consisted of 72 primary school teachers randomly selected from 40 Swaziland schools. The findings revealed that primary school teachers had some knowledge of measurement and assessment, however lacked skills in using a variety of...

Human capital development, especially higher educational attainment, attaches high premium to its expected economic benefits, in form of better welfare. This study investigates the effect of educational attainment of household head on two indicators of household welfare, namely labour market earnings and household per capita total expenditure on food and non-food items in Nigeria. The study uses the Double Hurdle (DH) model and Quantile Regression (QR) to address these objectives. The...

Literacy is an indispensable foundation that enables young people and adults to engage in learning opportunities at all stages of the learning continuum. Literacy is a prerequisite for the development of personal, social, economic and political empowerment. In Nigeria, attempt to increase access to literacy education for the enhancement of learners’ daily living include establishing State Agencies for Adult and Non-Formal Education. For the dearth of empirical studies, the study examined the...

The use of virtual learning technology has increased rapidly in university teaching. The introduction of elearning has led to rapid change which has impacted both the learners and the educators. The increasing use of technology in all aspects of life, as well as in the education sector, motivated Libyan universities to update their processes and make the technology the main factor in their education systems. This paper will analyse students‟ feedback for some Libyan students who studied...

Obesity has increasingly become a public health problem in both developed and developing countries. In Ghana, the prevalence of obesity has been found to be high particularly among women. The rising trend of obesity in Ghana is worrying as studies have shown an increased risk of morbidity, disability and mortality associated with obesity. This study examined the prevalence of obesity among Ghanaian teachers of child-bearing age. A cross-sectional survey was conducted on 400 female teachers...

The internationalisation of higher education is a global imperative that impacts on students and supervision practices in various ways. Culture and language diversity, as well as the characteristics of the students themselves in Open and Distance Learning, have been given little attention and the impact is not always taken into account. When implementing a scholarship development programme across language borders, factors such as culture and socio-economic background need to be taken into...

Laparoscopic surgery has developed rapidly in developed nations within a relatively short time to become a major method of treating surgical diseases, with increasing application across specialties. However this is not the situation in developing countries like Nigeria. This may be as a result of local challenges to the performance of laparoscopic procedures. It is important to identify what these challenges are.We prospectively studied problems encountered during the performance of...

This study was conducted to evaluate the contribution of four of the seven e-School dimensions to the success of the pilot phase of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) e-School project in Kenya. The study employed survey research methodology. All six of the NEPAD e-Schools in Kenya were included and the teachers and students in those schools formed the study population. Of the 5,186 students and teachers, a representative sample of 1,508 was selected using probabilistic...

Parasitic worms infect millions of school age children worldwide and this is even more evident in the tropics where basic personal general hygiene still remains a challenge. One of the consequences of parasitic worm infestation in children is anaemia which is objectively measured by estimating the packed cell volume. This study carried out through four months was to examine the effects, (on packed cell volume and parasitic worm load) of de-worming pupils of a primary school in Rivers...

This study investigated if sex, qualification, subject discipline and experience influence the frequency of use of ICT by teachers in South-West Nigeria. The study made use of the descriptive survey design. The sample consisted of 809 randomly selected teachers who responded to the validated questionnaire designed for the study. Data collected were analysed using mean, standard deviation, t-test and analysis of variance. The results showed that sex and subject discipline do not significantly...