This paper examines the methodology that was developed in the service component of the Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality survey of Jamaica 1986-1987. Using WHO guidelines of appropriate technology for birth, questionnaires were developed to evaluate institutional and field midwifery services as well as t...
This is a report of the first study of the iron nutritional status in Jamaica. There were 5509 participants: 2716 females who were not pregnant or lactating(NPNL), and 2334 males, aged 0 - 19 years; and 209 pregnant and 250 lactating women. 56 percent of the boys and 56 percent of the girls less than 2 y...
This is the result of a survey conducted in 1986 in Tobago employing quantitative and qualitative data collection methodologies. Information was collected from approximately 150 young males and females, 15 to 22 years of age, resident in Tobago...
Angiotensin converting enzyme Inhibitors (ACEIs) are reported to have a lower efficacy in black hypertensive patients, particularly in monotherapy. However, no studies have examined the efficacy of ACEIs in a Caribbean population. A dose titration study was performed with perindopril in the English and D...
Cases were collected throughout the authors surgical training on the basis that they were found to be the more interesting ones encountered. Some of the cases presented are in the subspecialty of the thoracic surgeon or thoracic surgery related general surgical problems. The last four papers were publish...
This revised Declaration of Health was adopted by Ministers at their Eight Meeting held in Barbados in July 1982, and published in response to Resolution I of that meeting. It is hoped that like the first edition, this revised second edition of the Declaration will prove useful to the policy maker, the s...
The manual is intended for use as a reference tool by physicians engaged in STD control programmes in the Caribbean. All presumptive diagnosis warrant full treatment and follow-up...
A total population survey of serum lipoprotein concentrations was undertaken in an urban community in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and the results compared with a rural survey on the same island and a study of healthy adults in Bristol, England. Lipoproteins were separated with identical techniques and lipid...
