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This study describes the epidemiology of infants' hearing loss (IHL) among patients under 3 months of age at Caritas Baby Hospital, the only pediatric hospital in Palestine. It was aimed to demonstrate that IHL is a major health problem in Palestine and to assess the first available data of the newborn hearing screening program conducted between September 25, 2006 and December 31, 2011. Data was uploaded and analyzed using Microsoft Excel and the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences...

Objective Caries is a major oral health problem children with efforts focused on promoting use of caries prevention methods. The aim of the study is to assess the effect of a school‐based oral health education programme on use of oral self‐care measures for reducing caries. Methods A structured school‐based oral health education programme was implemented in six schools in Ile‐Ife, Nigeria for 4 years. At the end of the project, information was sought from school children in their last year...

Khat has amphetamine like effect. Students chew khat to stay alert. It has various negative physical, mental, social and cognitive effects. Poor academic performance has been associated with khat. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and identify factors associated with khat chewing among Ethiopian University students. A cross sectional study was conducted on Bahir Dar University Students. A self-administered questionnaire was completed by 3268 students. Proportion was...

Trauma represents a challenge to healthcare systems worldwide, particularly in low-and middle-income countries. Positive effects can be achieved by improving trauma care at the scene of the accident and throughout hospitalization and rehabilitation. Therefore, we assessed the long-term effects of national implementation of a training program for multidisciplinary trauma teams in a southern African country.From 2007 to 2009, an educational program for trauma, "Better and Systematic Team...

only few, if at all there is any, teachers who did not desire in their hearts to do what is best but the question is, why the poor students performance?One of the basic qualities of a curriculum is dynamism, therefore there is need to examine those activities that could promote Science teaching in Tertiary Institutions.Of course the general observation of current happenings in Nigerian tertiary institutions revealed that there is a decline in student enrolment in science courses, students...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a common systemic disease amongst Black South Africans. It may lead to diabetic retinopathy (DR), a common cause of visual impairment (VI) and blindness. DR may signifiantly increase the prevalence of VI and blindness.To assess risk factors for VI and blindness amongst a black diabetic South African population aged ≥ 40 years.The study was conducted in seven Government healthcare facilities (two hospitals, four clinics and one health centre) in Mopani District,...

Dear all, As I am writing this, hundreds of thousands of Syrian students cannot continue their education.  This means that they are not only deprived of a safe and secure present, but also of a brighter future. Historian Keith Watenpaugh has shed light on the dire situation of Syrian university student refugees in the neighbouring countries of Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan. He argues that helping Syrian university students could curb the appeal of militant groups for young people. So far, less...

Gaps in national Ghanaian sexual and reproductive health (SRH) policies and research in terms of attention given to persons with disabilities are identified and ways to redirect policies to include them suggested. Policies and research in seven major documents from government sources and nongovernmental organizations were reviewed for policy and practice statements relevant to disability to determine if and how they addressed SRH concerns of persons with disabilities. The findings indicated...

Responding to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities (CRPD), this paper reports on the results of one phase of a qualitative research study conducted at a large, public, multi-campus university in East Africa to explore the challenges faced by students with physical disabilities. Recommendations from a focus group are presented and implications for pedagogical and institutional transformation are discussed.

Substance use continues to constitute social and health problems, more so among adolescents and young adults. One consequence is risky sexual behavior, a major problem in sub-Saharan Africa already facing the synergistic problems of poverty and HIV/AIDS. This study of female students aged ≥ 18 years in two universities in Nigeria uses a multi-stage stratified random sampling method, and each subject that gave consent to the study was administered with a structured questionnaire by trained...

Abstract Background: A better understanding is needed of the contextual factors that influence HIV risk behaviors among female adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. The objectives of this study were to assess the influence of family structure on lifetime sexual partners and on the number of sexual partners in the last year among female adolescents in rural Rakai, Uganda. In addition, the study assessed whether the influence of family structure on these outcomes differed by the school attendance...

Introduction: Psychoactive substance use among adolescents influences behavioral and cognitive processes and is associated with adolescents' performance in school.We therefore sought to investigate association of PASU with adolescents' school performance. Methods:We employed quantitative methods of data collection and analysis.To test the substance use-school performance association, we specified and estimated fixed effects hierarchical linear models (HLMs).We nested the data in their...

This accountability review is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14. The report documents the findings from a review carried out in March 2014, which examines the degree to which Oxfam meets its own standards for accountability. The project aims to enhance the adaptive capacity of 8,000 households of poor women and men from Balaka and Blantyre Districts in a variety of ways. The project was implemented by Blantyre Synod Health and Development Commission (BSHDC) in...

Usability is always the basic factor to be considered when developing any learning product.It attracts students to use the developed product such as courseware and help learners to gain more knowledge in learning.When usability strategies are considered in designing courseware, the courseware can be usable for the target users.Currently in Nigeria courseware are not fulfilling the requirement.Users are not happy with courseware; hence the usage is not encouraging, especially, in distance...

Many of our readers already know that Lebanon, a country of fewer than 6 million people, has reached a breaking point in its capacity to host the almost 1.2 million Syrian refugees that have streamed into Lebanon as a result of the horrifying civil war in Syria these past three and a half years. What many of us may not know is that Mustafa al-Haj, a Syrian graduate of the University of Damascus (BA, 2010) and refugee, is the co-founder and principal of Tuyour al-Amal (lit. “Birds of Hope,”)...