1. IMPACT OF NON-TRADITIONAL VARIABLES IN HEALTH CARE RISK ADJUSTMENT

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study The business of risk adjustment has come a long way since the publication of the Academy’s “Monograph Number One” with the title, “Health Risk Assessment and Health Risk Adjustment—Crucial Elements in Effective Health Care Reform” in May 1993. Less than ten years later, we had hospital inpatient diagnosis b...Continue Reading »

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2. PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY AT GRASS ROOT LEVEL

» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Health services delivery in Nigeria had its historical antecedents. It had evolved through a series of developments including a succession of policies and plan, which had been introduced by previous administrations. Previous administration here refers to the unorganized administration of the colonial and post colonial administration in N...Continue Reading »

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3. KNOWLEDGE OF HIV AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Mother To Child Transmission (MTCT) is responsible for more than 700,000 estimated new HIV infections in children worldwide yearly. In a single day, more than 1800 babies contract HIV from their mothers worldwide; and many of these cases occur in Africa. The proba...Continue Reading »

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4. MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF THE SPREAD OF HBV DISEASE WITH INFECTIOUS LATENT

» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY The spread of the HBV in Nigeria has posed a lot of threat to health and well being citizens in Nigeria. It is evident that about a third of the world’s population, approximately 2 billion people gets infected with hepatitis B virus in their life time. About 360 million people remain chronically infected carriers of the disease, most of whom a...Continue Reading »

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5. STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING MALNUTRITION ON CHILDREN'S ZERO TO FIVE YEARS

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Malnutrition in children also known as undernutrition is common globally and results in both short and long term irreversible negative health outcomes including stunted growth which may also be linked to cognitive development deficits, underweigt and wasting. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that malnutrition accounts for 54 per...Continue Reading »

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6. SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS UNDERSTANDING OF GENE

» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Over the years, right from the second half of the 20th century, genetics progressively became an essential field of biology also feeding controversial ethical, social and economical debates. The multiplicity and availability of products and applications of genetic technology (GMOs, DNA fingerprinting, screening of genetic diseases, gene therapy,...Continue Reading »

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7. HOSTEL SANITATION PRACTICES AND ITS EFFECT ON STUDENT’S HEALTH

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1. BACKGROUND OF STUDY Student’s health has been a major contributing factor to their academic performances over the years because it determines the student’s ability to read and prepare for his examinations; it even defines the ability of the student to write very well inside the hall which are primary aim of a student going to school. Health defined by WHO is the...Continue Reading »

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8. SURVEY OF DIVORCE AMONG WOMEN AND ITS EFFECTS ON CHILDREN'S ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

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9. MODELING THE EFFECTS OF CARRIERS ON TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY For certain infectious diseases, there are individuals who are able to transmit their illness but do not exhibit any symptoms. These individuals are called “carriers” and they play an important role in the transmission of the disease. There are two types of carriers. Genetic carriers carry the illness on their recessive genes. They can...Continue Reading »

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10. STANDARD PRECAUTIONS AMONG HEALTH CARE WORKERS

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION History has it that anything that the hand of Midas touched turned to gold. There is power in the touch. As healing can come from a touch, so also infection, disease and eventually death can come from a touch, be it for the person touching or the person being touched. The normal skin is designed to reduce water loss, protect against abrasions and to act as a permeability b...Continue Reading »

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11. NUTRITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE AMONG EXPECTANT MOTHERS

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Nutritional knowledge has been proven to play a very vital role in adopting optimal nutrition practices in the health of every expectant mother. As a matter of fact, health and nutritional status of the population of a nation is an important indicator of developmen...Continue Reading »

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12. A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON HEALTH EDUCATION INTERVENTION ON MALARIA PREVENTION IN CO...

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Nigeria is a nation fill with vegetation and water bodies; this is usually pronounced in the eastern and the southern part of the country. This is usually good for the people living in such environment in terms of agriculture and good weather condition; even with these advantages there are more disadvantages to this gift of nature. Some of the ...Continue Reading »

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13. KNOWLEDGE ATTITUDE OF NURSING MOTHERS TOWARDS IMMUNIZATION

» ABSTRACT The study knowledge attitudes of nursing mothers towards immunization aimed at evaluating the to determine the importance of immunization on the well being of nursing mothers, to examine the relationship between immunization and the level of immunity of the nursing mothers, to examine the role of immunization in curbing minor diseases among nursing mothers, to investigate on the factors a...Continue Reading »

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14. PLANNING IMPLICATIONS OF HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

» ABSTRACT This study aims at examining the housing development in Jos Jarawa. 150 households were surveyed across the District employing simple random sampling technique in order to generate data on the physical, social and economics characteristics of households. The analysis revealed that residents are of high density zone with their occupation of householders being served as basis for establishi...Continue Reading »

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15. INFLUENCE OF PLANTATION AGE ON CHARACTERISTICS OF Gmelina arborea

» INTRODUCTION Wood presents a unique challenge in use because of its variability and the directional nature of its basic structure. These are the sources of some of its attractive features but they require also that they be handled and applied in ways appropriate for good end use. The ways in which the structural features of the particular species determine their properties and ...Continue Reading »

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16. EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Geographers have over the years noted regional imbalances in warning trends that seemed to render the term “global warning” invalid. While annual temperature averages unquestionably continued to rise through the late 1990s and early 2000s, over heated areas in the Northern Hemisphere often were matched by excessively cool regio...Continue Reading »

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17. THE ROLE OF NGOS IN DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA

» ABSTRACT Democratic governance is a desired system of government that offers the electorates the dividends of democracy. It is a system where the freedom, rights and privileges of individuals are respected and upheld and the nation experiences national growth and development. This study was undertaken to examine the role of Non governmental organization in democratic governance. The Study revie...Continue Reading »

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18. EFFECT OF FAMILY VIOLENCE AND FAMILY STABILITY

» ABSTRACT Domestic violence can be described as the maltreatment of an individual by a family related entity. Domestic violence has been a plague facing the family and overtime has grown to be hydra headed monster that has intentionally and blatantly refused arrest. This study seek to examine the effect of domestic violence and family stability. The idea of the study is to assess the relations...Continue Reading »

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19. DELINEATION OF AQUIFER DEPTHS AND ITS CHARACTERISATION USING GEOPHYSICAL METHOD

» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Water is an essential liquid to human lives and continuous existence of the ecosystem. Water has some physical characteristics that guaranteed its wholesomeness: it must be colourless, odourless, tasteless, and readily foam with soap or detergents. The human body and blood is composed of 60 75% of water as such needed enough w...Continue Reading »

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20. EFFECTS OF GULLY EROSION ON THE ENVIRONMENT

» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Erosion is one of the surface processes that sculpture the earth’s landscape and constitutes one of the global environmental problems. Soil erosion is perhaps the most serious mechanism of land degradation in the tropics (ElSwaify, et al., 2002). However, gully is visually the most impressive of all types of erosion (El Swaify, ...Continue Reading »

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21. ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF VAT ON CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR

» ABSTRACT VAT has imitated relationship in daily life, and even it can happen everywhere, every day which has effect on people’s daily life. According to Statement of Standard Accounting Practice (SSAP, 1993) which states that “VAT is a tax on the supply of goods and services which is eventually borne by the final consumer but collected at each stages of the production and distribution chain...Continue Reading »

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22. TECHNICAL CONSIDERATION OF THE EFFECT OF SOLAR RADIATION ON NIGERIA

» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Solar radiation (a renewable energy resource) has direct impact on energy generation in addition to agriculture and water resources. The energy resource was observed to be affected by climate changes induced by CO2 emissions (Pan et al., 2004). With enormous solar potential across Nigeria, a moderate seasonal effect of climate cha...Continue Reading »

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23. HEALTH EDUCATION AS A PARAGIDM TO AN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OFFICER

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study According to Professor Emmanuel Ofeme, in Owerri, while delivering lecture at the 2nd Sam Okwaraji Memorial Lecture, Published by Chimaobi Uchendu, in the Sun News online sports of Friday, September 19, 2008, he said that unlike vision 2010, which was collaborative in its formulation and comprehensiveness in articulation in scope,...Continue Reading »

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24. MANAGEMENT OF ABATTIOR WASTE IN NIGERIA

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study Management of Abattior wastes has been of great concern in Nigeria. Almost every day in all the urban and rural markets in our county Nigeria, animals are slaughtered while the meats are sold to the public for consumption. Meat wastes sprang up from killing and also dehairing, paunch handling, rendering, trimming, processing and clean up operati...Continue Reading »

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25. SANITATION PRACTICES AND IMPLICATION ON STUDENT’S HEALTH

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY World Health Organization defined sanitation as the means of collecting and disposing excreta and community liquids, waste in a hygienic way. So as not to endanger the health and welfare and also for the social and environmental effects, it may have on people; people have been suffering from one disease to another without knowing the problems of...Continue Reading »