Reports on a project aimed at importing the effectiveness and sustainability of Jamaica's National Family Planning Programme in light of the planned phasedown of international donor support particularly the reduction of USAID-donated contraceptive supplies. A "Mapping Study and Private Physicians Survey"...
Reports on a project that studied the Red Pond area of North West St. Catherine, an area believed to be of high risk due to exposure of the local population to lead in the environment. The project aims to implement an environmental clean up programme in the exposed areas of Red Pond District and to creat...
The study was designed to primarily assess the desire for information in patients awaiting elective surgery at the University Hospital of the West Indies and to see what factors affected this desire. Secondarily, the patients' knowledge of anaesthesia, and the impact of an audiovisual presentation about ...
Reports on the results of an integrated vector control programme aimed at introducing or strengthening community participation in the control of all vectors of disease in three Caribbean countries. Specifically the study's objectives were to, obtain information on community beliefs relating to the use an...
Using an adapted multi-dimensional etiological model examines some of the factors which are said to contribute to the development of conduct disorder in adolescence. Three hypotheses which postulates specific relationships among the incidence of conduct disorder and three major factors (family, peer grou...
Presents an analysis of health care in Jamaica by focusing on three aspects: 1) self-medication and family based care which covers a variety of options used by people in the early stage; 2) professional bio-medical sector including government health services and private doctors, vitally important when il...
Parenting should not only be seen as the mother raising the child as is the tradition, but the role of the father should also be emphasized. Various health problems arising in both mother and child are discussed especially those occuring in disabled children and teenage mothers. It is important to realiz...
For the period covered by the study sardines were still being used by a wide crossection of the society. The ease in preparing sardines, their nutritive value and cost were chief factors affecting the amounts purchased and used. Sardines were a standard breakfast and lunch item. They were also used by th...
