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A total of 19,119 prescriptions consecutively written between January-July 1992 were collected from Gondar outpatient hospital selling pharmacy and reviewed to determine physician's adherence to the basic principles of prescription order writing. In 36.6%, 16.8% and 12.4% of the prescriptions, respectively, age, sex and chart numbers of patients were not recorded. Twelve percent, 7%, 6.4%, 5.8% and 1.6% of the prescriptions did not indicate routes of drug administration, directions for drug...

South Africa is currently undergoing a process of reconstruction and transformation, and educational changes constitute an integral part of this process. Organization Development (OD), could play a valuable role in such change. OD practices, when located within an ecosystemic framework, represent a departure from certain inadequacies of conventional educational psychology practice in South Africa, such as decontextualization and individualization. This paper is the product of a formative...

Abstract School guidance and counselling services ought to be designed and implemented to meet the needs of the pupils. The high school guidance programme should operate in a preventive way and attempt to equip pupils with information, skills and attitudes so that they can successfully negotiate the challenges of adolescence. If school group guidance lessons are to meet the pupils' needs and are to be experienced by the pupils as being relevant to their lives, then they must address the...

The present study examined the relationships between African American graduate students' experience of the imposter phenomenon and their racial identity attitudes, worldview perspectives, academic self-concept, background characteristics, and graduate school environment. It was hypothesized that racial identity, Afrocentricity, academic self-concept, and certain demographic characteristics would differentially predict imposter feelings. The results of multiple regression analyses revealed...

Abstract This paper attempts to show that while the family continues to be an important value within the social fabric, and may continue to be idealized as the primary socializing agent, it does not have a sustained impact on matters that concern population and family life education. Its traditional functions are increasingly being taken over by schools (and other social welfare organizations) which are equipped with the necessary human and other resources to anticipate and effectively...

Journal Article An Empowerment-Centered, Church-Based Asthma Education Program for African American Adults Get access Marvella E. Ford, Marvella E. Ford Marvella E. Ford, PhD, is assistant research scientist, Center for Medical Treatment Effectiveness Programs, Henry Ford Health System, 1 Ford Place, Suite 3E, Detroit, MI 48202. Gloria Edwards, PhD, is associate director, University of Michigan Hospitals, Minority Health Care Initiative, Ann Arbor. Juan L. Rodriguez, MD, is allergy...

Geographical Information Systems or GIS has become one of the more prominent research and training tools in South African university departments in the 1990s. GIS developed in the 1970s in North America in response to the expanding capacity of computer systems and the need to integrate spatial and attribute data (Maguire et al, 1991). It was only in the mid‐1980s that the first systems were set up in South Africa, primarily at research institutions such as the Department of Water Affairs and...

Making lasting changes to health care in developing countries is a challenge to industrialized nations. This two-part article outlines how a general practice training project was established in Uganda to prepare postgraduate students to work in rural hospitals. Part 1 covers the setting, those involved, and the facilities available to launch such a project.

Enabling a developing country to become self-sufficient in health care is a major feat. This two-part article outlines how a general practice training project was established in Uganda to prepare postgraduate students to work in rural hospitals. The first part looked at the setting, personnel, and facilities. Part 2 outlines the curricula and clinical practice.

SUMMARY What prospects are there in sub‐Saharan Africa for distance education over the next five years? This paper analyses the political, economic and social forces that have affected the sub‐region over the past twenty‐five years in order to understand how they have determined the shape of distance and formal education in the present. The role of external agencies in the development of distance education is also examined.

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The manifestation of autistic behaviours in relation to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (1987) Revised Criteria for Autism was investigated among 18 mentally handicapped children. The Autistic Behaviour Checklist and the Behaviour Rating Instrument for Autistic (and other Atypical) Children were used to collect data. All the three major categories of the DSM III-R were observed in varying frequencies in the subjects. In addition other behaviours not described in the...

Most studies suggest that family background has a strong effect on earnings both directly and indirectly through the returns to own education. However, such effects might reflect the influence of family background on entry into work rather than a productive effect on earnings. The paper uses data from a survey of 16–29 year olds in urban Ethiopia to examine the impact of family background on selection into work and earnings. Family background strongly influences entry into the public sector;...

Current patterns of HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe are examined using national surveillance data reflecting four main variables: age, gender, marital status, and residence. The data show that the distribution of cases by age and gender is consistent with the literature on the rest of sub-Sahara Africa. Distribution of cases by age is bimodal with incidence highest among sexually active young adults (20-39 years) and the very young (0-4 years), and the male-to-female ratio is nearly 1:1 among adults....

Otolaryngology–Head and Neck SurgeryVolume 114, Issue 2 p. 255-255 Article Effects of Air Pollution on African-American and Other Minority Populations Kenneth Olden PhD, Corresponding Author Kenneth Olden PhD n/a@dne.dne National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North CarolinaReprint requests: Kenneth Olden, PhD, Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, P.O. Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.Search for more papers by this...

"Attitudes toward Sexual Behavior among Unmarried Zambian Secondary School Females." The Journal of Social Psychology, 136(1), pp. 111–112

1386, 5-6-yr-old and 1326, 12-yr-old schoolchildren in the mainly rural province of Matebeleland South, in Zimbabwe, were examined for dental caries and interviewed about their oral hygiene practices. Fluoride contents of the drinking water source of the schools were determined and were found to be in the range 0.05-2.5 ppm. Among 5-6-yr-old children, 25.2% were affected with caries and the mean dmft score was 0.6 whereas 19.8% of the 12-yr-old children had caries, and the mean dmft score...