Analyses describes the objective situation of children and women using standard indicators of health status, education levels of living, employment deviance and poverty. Contends that the curtailment of developmental and supportive programmes occassioned by adjustment programmes have impacted severely on...
The aims of this study were to characterize clinically and biochemically malnutrition related diabetes mellitus (MRDM) as it presents in Jamaica (J-type or phasic insulin dependent diabetes mellitus) and to examine the food toxin (linamarin)/malnutrition hypothesis as a possible aetiological factor in th...
Paper states that based on a collection of over twenty ethnographic interviews of informants selected from a national sample of Jamaicans, "How we were grown" examines three issues, 1) sexual socialisation and value formation; 2) the establishment and maintenance of multiple relations; and (3) the use an...
Paper brings together information from several studies in a review of the elements of the Food Assistance Programme (FAP) in Jamaica, their impact on vulnerable groups, and suggests guidelines for reorganizing and financing the programme. The Food Assistance Programme comprises the Food Stamp Programme, ...
A total of 6,007 persons representing the household population of Jamaica 12 years old and older were interviewed in their homes. Some 72 percent of males and 50 percent of females reported that ganja would be easy to get if they wanted it. A total of 37 percent of males and 12 percent of females between...
