Research Papers/Topics in Epidemic & Community Health
Awareness and Knowledge of Type2 Diabetes Patients on Dietary Management in Sobi Specialist Hospital, Alagbado, Ilorin, Kwara State
ABSTRACTThis research project was assessing the Awareness and Knowledge of type2 Diabetic patients on Dietary management: A case study of Sobi specialist Hospital. The research’s general objective was research design used in this study was descriptive research design. The sample size used in this study was 79 respondents out of 100 patients attending the study area, derived using Cochrane form...
A SURVEY ON RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY TOWARDS HEALTH AND FITNESS, PROMOTING HEALTH AND FITNESS
AbstractThe research literature on survey of recreational activity towards health and fitness, promoting health and fitness as it relates to human health is vast and growing. To help policymakers take new and emerging findings into account when designing recreation and park services and initiatives for the 21st century, this paper summarizes the salient issues and identifies research gaps. It considers how being outside in natural surroundings may improve health and how outdoor physical act...
Anatomical perspective to diabetes mellitus
CHAPTER ONE1.0 IntroductionDiabetes occurs in situations where there’s too many excretions of urine and can be causedby a lack of hormone called antidiuretic hormone or ADH that limits the amount of urinemade as in Diabetes Insipidus or it can also result from a higher blood sugar level as inDiabetes Mellitus (IDF, 2006). Diabetes is a condition that impairs the body’s ability toprocess blood glucose, otherwise known as blood sugar. Diabetes mellitus, often referred tosimply as diab...
ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND UTILIZATION OF INTERMITTENT PREVENTIVE TREATMENT FOR MALARIA AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN ATTENDING ANTENATAL CLINIC IN JIGAWA STATE, NIGERIA
Malaria remains the most devastating human parasitic infection in the world today. it has been estimated that between 1-2 billion people throughout the world lives in areas at risk of malarial infection and each year up to 500 million people contract the disease out of which 1.7 million to 2.7 million people die. Several recent reports indicate that more than 90% of these causalities are from Africa, south of the sahara where the most virulent species of the parasite Plasmodium Fa...
Prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis
CHAPTER ONE1.0 INTRODUCTIONTuberculosis is a disease caused by Bacteria called mycobacteriumtuberculosis, the bacteria usually attacked the lung, but Tuberculosis bacteriacan attack any part of body such as kidney, spine, and brain. If not treatedproperly, tuberculosis can be fatal, tuberculosis was once leading cause of deathin the united state, and TB is spread through air from one person to another, thebacteria are put into air when a person with tuberculosis disease of ...
Knowledge and attitude of hypertension and its risk factors among adults in maiduguri metropolitan Council
Abstract This research was carried out to assess the knowledge of hypertension and its risk factors in Maiduguri Metropolitan council, Northern eastern Nigeria. A descriptive survey study was used to evaluate hypertension knowledge and attitude in a mixed population of hypertensive and non-hypertensive victims. Participants were selected through a random sampling method. Demographic data including age, gender, marital status, highest educational qualification and occupation were recorded. In...
The Incidence of Anaemia in Pregnancy in Rumueme Community of Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State
ABSTRACT This study is designed to identify the incidence of anemia in pregnancy in ________________________________________________. A historical and statistical survey approach was adopted; antenatal records dating from 2014-2016 were reviewed and analysed to produce data on incidence and some 20 respondents from the study area (10 from each) were surveyed to provide subjective information on other facts and figures concerning anemia in pregnancy. Findings identified incide...
The Impact of Adequate Nutrition Among Pregnant Mothers in Anguwam Juma of Zaria Local Government Area, Kaduna State
This research work have five chapters respectively chapter one include preliminary pages, statement of the problem and definition of terms while chapter two is literature review, chapter three is research methodology, chapter four is data analysis and data presentation finally chapter five was summary conclusion and recommendations
Study of Water Resource Management in Lahore
The first Muslims lived in a desert, so they were very concerned about water conservation .In Holy Quran the word WATER has been used 63 times in Arabic word Ma’. Water is a gift from God. Water is an essential resource for all life on the planet. Of the water resources on Earth only three percent of it is fresh and two-thirds of the freshwater is locked up in ice caps and glaciers. Of the remaining one percent, a fifth is in remote. Much...
Role of NGOS for Long Term Humanitarian Assistance after disaster
Disaster is a severe disruption of the functioning of society which poses momentous, extensive threat to human life, health, property, or the milieu, whether developing suddenly or as the result of long term process. The increasing regularity and severity of contemporary disasters has highlighted the need for effective emergency management regimes .Over the past four years, countless volunteers and nongovernment...
Research Paper on 2014 Ludian Earthquake in China
AbstractOn August 3, 2014, the Ludian County of Yunnan Province in southwestern and northeastern Yunnan Province, China, was struck by an MS 6.5 earthquake at 16:30 (Beijing Standard Time). That was another destructive event after the MS 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, MS7.1 Yushu earthquake in 2010, and MS 7.0 Lushan earthquake in 2013. The earthquake which was very strong occurred on the margin of the Tibetan plateau in a rural area of Ludian county.The epicenter (103.3° E, 27.1...