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The purpose of this study was to determine criteria for measuring quality assurance in sustainable secondary school education development as imperative for educational managers. The population of the study consisted of 2,000 educational managers in the study area. A sample of 195 educational managers was purposely selected for the study. Two research questions and two research hypotheses directed the study. Mean and standard deviation was used to analyse the research questions, while t-test...

Care work is the heartbeat of every society: it contributes to our wellbeing as a nation and is crucial for our social and economic development. Yet the disproportionate responsibility for unpaid care work results in time poverty and significant opportunity costs, particularly among the poorest and most marginalized women and girls. This policy brief outlines why unpaid care work is a critical development, economic and gender equality issue for Kenya. It draws on two sets of evidence from...

Obesity is a complex condition that is caused by a mixture of medical, psychological and environmental factors.Childhood obesity is characterized by rise in the number of fat cells.It is one of today's visible yet neglected Public Health problems with serious health implications such as type2 diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases that affect individuals in all ages and socio-economic groups.This was a cross-sectional study aimed at investigating the prevalence of obesity and...

Saturday, April 17April 13, 2021Free AccessEvaluation of Neurocritical Care Training in Africa (1786)Khadijah Tiamiyu, Jose Suarez, and Deanna SaylorAuthors Info & AffiliationsApril 13, 2021 issue96 (15_supplement)https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.96.15_supplement.1786 Letters to the Editor

<ns4:p><ns4:bold>Background:</ns4:bold><ns4:italic> </ns4:italic>Asymptomatic <ns4:italic>Plasmodium falciparum </ns4:italic>gametocyte carriers are reservoirs for sustaining transmission in malaria endemic regions. Gametocyte presence in the host peripheral blood is a predictor of capacity to transmit malaria. However, it does not always directly translate to mosquito infectivity. Factors that affect mosquito infectivity include, gametocyte sex-ratio and density, multiplicity of infection...

A dissertation submitted to the Graduate School in partial fulfillment for the award of Masters of Science in Wildlife Health and Management-Clinical Track of Makerere University.

Low-income producers and consumers of food in Africa are more vulnerable to climate change, owing to their comparatively limited ability to invest in more adapted institutions and technologies under increasing climatic risks. Therefore, the way we manage our food systems needs to be urgently changed if the goal is to achieve food security and sustainable development more quickly. This review paper analyzes the nexus “climate-smart agriculture-food systems-sustainable development” in order to...

Social media is becoming an essential tool for professional growth, curriculum planning, and student engagement.This study investigated on the influence of students' socio-economic background on social media use in Turkana Central Sub County.The study was guided by the following research questions; what is the socio-economic background of secondary school students in Turkana Central Sub county Kenya.The study was guided by Media Dependency theory and employed causal comparative...

Background Stunting is a well-established child-health indicator of chronic malnutrition, which reliably gives a picture of the past nutritional history and the prevailing environmental and socioeconomic circumstances. Objective To investigate the prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school children of the Bahir Dar city. Method A cross-sectional study was carried out from March to June 2019. Data were coded and entered into the Epi-Data and exported to SPSS...

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a major public health issue that affects the health and well-being of millions of young people worldwide each year. Gender-based violence was prevalent throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. However, research in Africa is extremely diverse.The purpose of this study is to determine the extent and risk factors of gender-based violence among night female students in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.This cross-sectional study was conducted among 788 elementary and high school night...

School feeding in low-income countries is dominated by cereals and legumes, which are susceptible to aflatoxin contamination but are usually not assessed for aflatoxins. A cross sectional study was conducted to assess aflatoxin exposure among adolescents through consumption of school meals in Kilimanjaro region. Food frequency questionnaires and 24 h dietary recalls were used to collect information on food consumption. At least four samples of common food used in school meals were collected....

In early 2020, the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented shock to the global education system, resulting in most educational institutions closing their doors and turning to various forms of remote learning to ensure continuous education for their communities. Since the world has not experienced this scale of school closure before, the goal of this study was to explore what, if anything, non-state schools (NNSs) were doing to support remote learning that may help them to...

Abstract Background Marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages is recognized as a contributing factor to the global increase in overweight and obesity, particularly among children. Such marketing negatively affects children’s dietary preferences, food choices, purchasing requests, and consumption patterns. Given that little is known about food marketing in Africa, including in Uganda, monitoring children’s exposure to food marketing is essential to generate evidence on the problem and...

Abstract Background The capacity of the Research Ethic Committee (REC) members to review research protocol is one of the frequently raised problems. The purpose of this study was to assess training needs of members of research ethics committee in Cameroon regarding research participant protection. Methods It was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted in all the regions of Cameroon during the last quarter of the year 2020, assessing training needs of REC members’ ethical evaluation of...

Freshwater ecosystems afford essential needs and services to humans and have not been spared the effects of anthropogenic pressures exacerbated by increasing urbanization and industrialization. The study was undertaken in two southern inland rivers in Edo State, Nigeria, following concerns that the increasing human population in the region, coupled with indiscriminate discharges into rivers could erode water quality and elevate metal concentrations above allowable limits. Water samples were...

Training and human resource development is an important component in any given learning organization.Kenya, as a developing economy has put in place parameters to spearhead its growth namely; Vision 2030 which recognize the critical role of science, technology, innovation and training in moving the country to a middle income status.The productivity of workers in Technical colleges is very critical in ensuring workers and the general performance of Technical Colleges to meet the set...

This study was purposed to explore the challenges and prospects for quality higher education through effective e learning management in Zambian Private Universities with special reference to Acacia University Zambia (AUZ) (pseudo).