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Introduction: Personal protective equipment (PPE) provide a physical barrier between the user and micro-organisms by preventing micro-organisms from contaminating the mucous membranes, airways, skin, clothing, hair and shoes of health care workers. Aim of the work: To describe the practice of nurses and physicians as regards usage of PPE and identify the factors affecting their adherence to using these equipment. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study among health care workers at...

The evolution in management and leadership styles within organisations is meant to improve organisational performance and goal attainment. As such, management approaches have evolved over the years from human relations management approaches to scientific management approaches and to a combination of both approaches. The changes in management approaches were aimed at improving organisational behaviour and performance results. With this in mind different organisations have come up with...

The last decade has seen a number of educational programs in family medicine begin throughout the African region as many countries have recognized that family medicine offers an efficient way to meet the growing health demands of their country. Zambia's health situation is similar to many countries in sub-Saharan Africa by having a wide array of compelling health demands and a health sector with a limited capacity to meaningfully respond. This paper describes the efforts to begin Zambia's...

The welfare of people in the tropics and sub-tropics strongly depends on goods and services that savanna ecosystems supply, such as food and livestock production, fuel wood, and climate regulation. Flows of these services are strongly influenced by climate, land use and their interactions. Savannas cover c. 20% of the Earth's land surface and changes in the structure and dynamics of savanna vegetation may strongly influence local people's living conditions, as well as the climate system and...

Using the fifth Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper examines whether delayed entry is as likely among girls as it is among boys and the importance of the household's poverty status in understanding delayed entry. No gender difference is found in the likelihood of delayed entry. However boys are much older for their grades than girls suggesting that they may experience a more extended period of delayed entry. The poverty status of the household is not an important correlate of delayed...

Abstract Silicic volcanic rocks at Hadjer el Khamis, near Lake Chad, are considered to be an extension of the Cameroon volcanic line (CVL) but their petrogenetic association is uncertain. The silicic rocks are divided into peraluminous and peralkaline groups with both rock types chemically similar to within‐plate granitoids. In situ U/Pb zircon dating yielded a mean 206 Pb/ 238 U age of 74.4 ± 1.3 Ma indicating the magmas erupted ∼10 million years before the next oldest CVL rocks (i.e., ∼66...

This paper captures the voices of mentees on their experiences of mentoring during teaching practice. The study adopted an interpretivist paradigm. A case study design was used. Data was gathered from 18 purposively selected student teachers that had been on their final teaching practice stint. Data was collected through analyses of the student teachers’ reflective journals and their responses to interviews. The paper established that some student teachers enjoyed cordial relationships with...

Incorporating transplantation into undergraduate medical curricula can improve organ procurement rates. Intricacies related to the assessment of donor suitability, the clinical diagnosis of brain death, and relevant legal processes are key challenges for the newly qualified doctor. The aim of this study was to describe and analyze knowledge of medical students regarding the various aspects dealing with the diagnosis of brain death, with a view to designing an undergraduate training module. A...

INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY’S COMPETENCIES BY THE LIMPOPO’S SCHOOL PRINCIPALS: EVALUATION STUDY OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME IN SOUTH AFRICA

The purpose of this study was to identify commonly used substances among secondary school students, factors contributing to substance use and their behavioral impacts. Halaba secondary school was purposefully selected due to its strategic importance regarding substance use. Proportionate stratified random sampling technique was employed to select 311 female and 500 male students out of the total number of 5,518 grades 9 through 12 students. A survey questionnarie was used to collect data and...

Introduction Knowledge about experiences in accessing HIV services among persons with disabilities who are living with HIV in sub‐Saharan Africa is limited. Although HIV transmission among persons with disabilities in Africa is increasingly acknowledged, there is a need to bring to life the experiences and voices from persons with disabilities living with HIV to raise awareness of programme implementers and policy makers about their barriers in accessing HIV services. This paper explores how...

This paper explores how educators were empowered in integrating HIV and AIDS topics in their classrooms. This paper adopted the empowerment theory, which emphasizes that for people to have positive self-esteem and self-efficacy they need to be empowered. The paper was guided by the interpretive paradigm and qualitative research approach was adopted to collect data from selected principals and educators using face-to-face unstructured interviews. From the data collected the findings revealed...

Appears in: EDULEARN16 Proceedings Publication year: 2016Pages: 4804-4810ISBN: 978-84-608-8860-4ISSN: 2340-1117doi: 10.21125/edulearn.2016.2152Conference name: 8th International Conference on Education and New Learning TechnologiesDates: 4-6 July, 2016Location: Barcelona, Spain

Research thesis submitted for the partial fulfilment of the requirements for award of the degree of Master of Education (early childhood studies) in the school of education, Kenyatta University. July, 2016

Middle-aged and older African American women experience disproportionate rates of functional limitations and disability from osteoarthritis (OA) compared to other racial ethnic groups; however, little is known about what factors contribute to this disparity within African American women.To examine factors associated with physical function and disability among African American women ages 50-80 with OA using the disablement process model.This descriptive study included 120 African American...

A dichotomy of organic and institutional views of education emerged as a strong theme in a qualitative research study that was undertaken amongst primary school teachers in Northern Uganda. Teachers clearly conceptualised children’s learning in two categories − dependant upon culture and village life (termed organic education in this paper), and dependent upon organised schooling (termed institutional education). As the study progressed the complementary nature of these two categories became...

In this paper we seek to contribute to the post-2015 education agenda by shifting the focus from considerations of what education goals and targets should be to a people-centred exploration of enabling environments, within and beyond education, for equity, access and quality. Theoretically, the paper draws on the capabilities approach. Empirically, we present data from two independent qualitative studies conducted in South Africa (n = 40) and Tanzania (n = 10) with university students who...