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A THESIS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ADULT EDUCATION SUBMITTED TO THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN
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A study was conducted of African medical students in two schools to determine their level of understanding of some culinary metaphors in medicine, particularly those used in the description of certain paediatric conditions. The results showed that the vast majority of medical students and young resident doctors are not familiar with many of the European foods, fruits and beverages that are commonly used in medical textbooks to describe disease conditions. In describing disease, it is...
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Education is widely recognised as a major source of economic growth through its effect on productivity. Most developing countries made giant strides in the decades up to the 1970s in terms of creating access to education by committing sizeable funds to the sector. However, since the 1980s, in the face of pressing economic problem, many countries cut back on their investment in education. In the face of declining educational quality and access, there have been calls for increased allocation...
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Multidrug therapy (MDT), according to the recommendations of a WHO Study Group of 1982, was introduced in the leprosy control program of the All Africa Leprosy and Rehabilitation Training Center (ALERT), Ethiopia, in January 1983. Of 6042 paucibacillary patients who were put on MDT during a period of 7 years, 5485 patients (90.8%) completed the course of MDT; 437 patients (7.2%) did not fulfill the requirement for clinic attendance and either discontinued MDT themselves or the treatment was...
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Multidrug therapy (MDT), according to the recommendations of a WHO Study Group of 1982, was introduced in the leprosy control program of the All African Leprosy and Rehabilitation Training Center (ALERT), Ethiopia, in January 1983. Paucibacillary (PB) patients are treated with 6 months of MDT. Multibacillary (MB) patients are treated with at least 2 years of MDT and until skin-smear negativity. An analysis was made of the relapses which had been diagnosed among self-reporting patients in...
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This paper describes a predictive relationship between West African rainfall and U.S. hurricane-spawned destruction, which is based on information for the 42-yr period 1949–90. It is shown that above-average rainfall during the previous year along the Gulf of Guinea, in combination with above-average rainfall in the western Sahel during June and July, is linked to hurricane-spawned destruction along the U.S. East Coast occurring after 1 August, which is 10–20 times greater than in years when...
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Reproductive knowledge, and contraceptive awareness and practice were assessed among secondary school pupils in Bagamoyo and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. Four classes from four government secondary schools were randomly selected within strata of year of schooling, and students were interviewed using a structured questionnaire. All 490 pupils in selected classes participated in the study. Of 481 respondents with complete data, 315 (65.5 pc) were males and 166 (34.5 pc) were females; 256 (53.2 pc)...
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Adverse effects of Schistosoma haematobium infection on mental activities were studied at a primary school in rural Kenya, where the intensity of infection was light (the average egg count: < 50/10 ml of urine). The school children received three kinds of mental tests, which examine attentiveness and concentration, before and a month after treatment with a single dose of praziquantel. A pretreatment analysis showed that test scores became worse as egg counts of children increased. The...
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Abstract This article considers the educational problems as South Africa enters a new phase, and looks at how educational resources could be used to optimum effect. The use of educational technology is considered, to see how it can promote effective learning for students, teachers and the total community. Countless township schools resemble the ruins of Jericho as a self‐destructive, silent war against ‘the system’ rages on ... schools have been stripped bare by squatters and even pupils, in...
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The present study assessed whether behavior modeling training would improve the self-reports of white, first-line supervisors in relation to their black subordinates in two South African mines. Self-reports of behavior were elicited from 50 supervisors equally split into experimental and control groups. Controlling for retraining differences, the 25 supervisors trained in behavior modeling reported significantly greater improvements in supportive behaviors than the control group of 25...
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ABSTRACT: A demographic and cultural profile of African‐American youth is presented. Culturally‐based differences in decision‐making are reviewed. Attitudes and cultural values related to identity and self‐image, gender role socialization, contraception, marriage and parenthood, homosexuality, and HIV/AIDS are described. Recommendations and strategies to make sexuality education and pregnancy prevention programs relevant to African‐American youth are offered.
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A study done in Lesotho in 1985–1986 assessed whether growth charts increased the impact of nutrition education and growth monitoring on maternal learning about weaning practices and diarrhea. Seven hundred and seventy six mothers were given three monthly sessions of group nutrition education along with growth monitoring of children and individual counseling. Growth charts, which were taught to one of two groups, fostered learning but only on issues related to diarrhea and only among new...