OBJECTIVE This study sought to explore University of Ghana Business School diploma student's knowledge of contraceptives, types of contraceptives, attitudes towards contraceptive users, preference for contraceptives, benefits, and side-effects of contraceptives. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data was conducted with three sets of focus group discussions. Participants were systematically sampled from a...

objective: this study sought to explore university of ghana business school diploma student's knowledge of contraceptives, types of contraceptives, attitudes towards contraceptive users, preference for contraceptives, benefits, and side-effects of contraceptives. materials and methods: data was conducted with three sets of focus group discussions. participants were systematically sampled from a...

Although economists acknowledge that various indicators of educational attainment (e.g., highest grade completed, credentials earned) might serve as signals of a worker’s productivity, the practical importance of education-based signaling is not clear. In this paper we estimate the signaling value of a high school diploma, the most commonly held credential in the U.S. To do so, we compare the e...

N education in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) goes back to 1958 when the first formal education for nurses was initiated as a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the World Health Organization.1 For many years, the MoH conducted formal education for nurses at 2 levels: post intermediate school nursing institutes graduating diploma nurses after 3 years of studies and post...

BACKGROUND The high burden of burn injuries in South Africa (SA) requires surgeons skilled in burn care. However, there are few dedicated burn surgeons and properly equipped units or centres. OBJECTIVES To quantify the involvement of surgeons in burn care in SA hospitals, identify factors that attract surgeons to pursue burn care as a career and deter them from doing so, and understand the ch...

BACKGROUND South Africa has a 32-year history of training ophthalmic nurse practitioners (ONPs). The role and required skills and competencies of ONPs are not well documented in the international literature and are also absent from South African publications, including South African Nursing Council publications. AIM This study aims to inform curriculum development and human resource planning ...

This thesis examines the computational complexity of transmission network expansion planning which is defined as follows. Given a transmission grid of generators and consumers (nodes) connected by transmission lines (edges) with certain flow capacities, where should new lines be added at minimum cost such that all given capacity constraints are fulfilled? In its original mixed-integer non-linea...