Public Health

Coprehending consumer’s patronage towards insurance is very vital, because it requires not only monetary but tactful religious and cultural aspect of business life. Ghana has low percentage of assess to insurance policies (excluding public health insurance) in 2011. Study suggest that people have faily or no knowlegde how insurance policies work Read more…

history  The tonsils are lymphoid organs strategically located at the entrance of the digestive and respiratory systems**4 First known tonsillectomy was performed by Cornellus Celsus almost 2000 years ago.15**** Modern tonsillectomy began in early years of this century with development of Dissection tonsillectomy in Baltimore by Worthington (1907) & in Read more…

Introduction: In 1998, Andrew Wakefield, a British doctor and medical researcher stated with other professional scientists, that there is a relationship between Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine with autism and bowel disease by publishing a plenty of studies named as Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia non-specific colts and pervasive developmental disorder in Read more…

Vector control is an essential requirement in control of epidemic diseases such as malaria, filariasis, dengue that are transmitted by different species of mosquitoes. Emergence of insecticide resistance and their harmful effects on non-target organisms and environment has necessitated an urgent search for development of new and improved mosquito control Read more…

Metabolic syndrome is a complex of interrelated risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes. These factors include dysglycemia, raised blood pressure, elevated triglyceride (TG) levels, decreased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels, and obesity (particularly central adiposity). The associations and clustering of these factors have been known for decades. Identification Read more…

Vaccines are by far one of the most controversial issues worldwide. The more evolved we become, the more protection we require from our environment. Nurses need to become educated on both the risk and benefits that they possess so that they can provide their patient with the best care. Nurses Read more…

Discussion Many women in need of PMTCT are not being reached by current programmes and this can be attributed to socio-cultural, economic, systemic and programmatic factors. Domiciliary deliveries conducted by traditional birth attendants are commonplace in rural Zimbabwe and are on the rise (Macro International , 2007). Moreover; PMTCT programmes Read more…

Two concerns one financial and the other organizational inform these general changes. First, the UK government, under pressure to control. Voluntary sector provision in a mixed economy of care 145 growing public spending on health and social care, was concerned with using exisi.:.’s budgets more .`efficiently’. Consequently, ‘value for money’ Read more…

At these levels, raised PCV combined with hypertension would cause a steep increase in stroke risk. In endurance sports, dehydration causes an athlete’s blood to thicken, further raising blood viscosity and pressure (Adv Intern Med 1991; 36:399-424). Other performance enhancers used also pose serious health risks, and to permit the Read more…