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Globally, malnutrition among adolescents is a major public health concern. Despite the emergence of a number of advancements in areas of health and nutrition services in developing countries including Ethiopia, nutritional status of adolescents is not yet commonly included in health and nutrition surveys and an up-to-date overview of their nutritional status across the world is not available. Even the existing studies conducted on nutritional status of adolescents in Ethiopia and other parts...

The study assessed students’ satisfaction with hostel accommodation in selected private universities in Ogun State, Nigeria. This was done by comparing the level of housing satisfaction of students residing in selected private universities’ hostels. The study utilized structured questionnaires to obtain primary data from students and university authorities in the two selected private universities in the study area. There were twenty two (22) hostels in the study area (15 hostels in Crescent...

Background: Globally, perinatal mortality rate is 19 deaths per1000 births and maternal mortality is 240 per100, 000 live births.In Africa maternal mortality rate is 500 per100, 000 live births and perinatal mortality is 49 per 1000 births.In Kenya complications related to pregnancy and child birth are the leading causes of maternal mortality translating to 488 per 100,000 live births.In Kakamega District, Maternal mortality rate was 880 per 100,000 live births while perinatal mortality rate...

The provision of safely managed sanitation in informal settlements is a challenge, especially in schools that require durable, clean, sex-segregated facilities for a large number of children. In informal settlements in Nairobi, school sanitation facilities demand considerable capital costs, yet are prone to breakage and often unhygienic. The private sector may be able to provide quality facilities and services to schools at lower costs as an alternative to the sanitation that is...

Post-operative sore throat significantly impact patients' satisfaction during post-operative period.Many factors can contribute to postoperative sore throat and the incidence varies with the method of airway management.To determine the predictors and incidence of postoperative sore throat.In this facility based cross sectional study, 245 elective gynecologic and general surgical patients who had had surgery at Jimma University Teaching Hospital between February 01 and April 30, 2015 were...

The purpose of the study was to investigate on the influence of type of school in the use of history and government instructional resources in Kenya a case of secondary schools in Nakuru County.The objectives of study were to; Investigate on the nature of the teachers teaching the subject; ways of obtaining the instructional resources; the difference on the two types of school on the availability and use of instructional resources.This study adopted a survey design in which public and...

Learner absenteeism often occurs involuntarily due to learners’ social and economic circumstances. Notwithstanding this fact, there is a worldwide trend towards a more punitive and retributory management approach to address learner absenteeism. Because such an approach neglects to consider absentees’ specific circumstances, it fails to address learner absenteeism properly. In the first part of this article, the authors considered the suitability of the ecosystemic theory as basis for a...

This research investigated students’ academic performance in Religious Education (RE) in three junior secondary schools in Gaborone in Botswana. The sample comprised seven (7) Religious Education teachers, two (2) deputy school heads, three (3) focus groups of students and two (2) parent representatives. The study used a qualitative research methodology and a case study design that entailed interviews, lesson observations and document analysis. The findings reveal that teachers as the...

The Disability Common Fund (DCF) is a social protection program aimed at alleviating poverty among persons with disabilities in Ghana. Since its introduction, little has been done to examine if beneficiaries use the fund for its intended purposes. The study was conducted to assess beneficiaries’ perception of the sufficiency of the fund, what the fund was used for and the possible impact on the lives of beneficiaries in the Kumasi Metropolis, and make recommendation for improvement. This...

The study was conducted to assess the air pollution-related lung cellular proliferative activity and inflammatory cells infiltrate among Sudanese subjects, who worked at least 8 hours per day. A total of seventy-five workers who worked for at least 5 years in the polluted area were included, sputum/ blood samples were collected to evaluate the cytological atypia and metaplasia.Out of 75 subjects, Cytological atypia and metaplasia were detected among 8% and 16% of the participant...

Increasing road congestion and high traffic volume is often times an indicator of atmospheric air pollution.Ibadan, being the largest metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria, experiences steady influx of vehicular movement on daily bases.The situation is made worse as a greater number of these vehicles are old and poorly maintained.This study therefore investigated the likely impact of high traffic volume along a major roadway (the Ojoo-Mokola road) within the Ibadan metropolis on...

Research on area of self-efficacy theory is scarce in African context though several scholars propose the need for investigating the practical utility of the theory in other cultural settings aside from Western countries. We have tested the theory of self-efficacy in Ethiopian context and showed how an innovative classroom based strategy (promoting students’ mastery experience, exposing students to role model, persuading students the importance of effort and creating favorable attitude...

This chapter discusses the difficulties of teaching and learning sectional drawing in a university based in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. The study used both qualitative and quantitative approaches with subjects from the second- and the third-year lecturers and students engaged in Engineering Graphics and Design in the degree course.

The continued use of corporal punishment in some South African schools and the reasons advanced for it make this subject topical even now, twenty years after the abolition of this practice. Corporal punishment is a worrying issue among human rights activists and scholars. This paper reports on contestations and paradoxes regarding the use of corporal punishment arising from a qualitative study in two high schools, and the implications thereof for school leadership. Data was generated through...

The National Norms and Standards for School Funding policy was adopted by the government to address equity in South African public schools. This pro-poor funding policy compels the state to progressively fund schools based on a quintile ranking system. Schools lacking in infrastructure, physical and financial resources and usually located within poor socio-economic environments are ranked quintiles 1 and 2. These schools are referred to as no-fee schools and are provided with far more state...