Praveena Gunaratnam, Lidija Sestakova, Mitchell Smith and Siranda Torvaldsen NSW Public Health Officer Training Program, NSW Ministry of Health, 73 Miller Street, North Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia. School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Medicine, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. NSW Refugee Health Service, PO Box 144, Liverpool BC, NSW 1871, Australia. Corresponding author. Email: pgu...

The Ibarapa Programme was founded on February 9, 1963, as the Ibarapa Project, a collaborative and cooperative health development project of the University of Ibadan, the Western Nigeria Government, and the Ibarapa community. The Rockefeller Foundation provided generous seed funding for the project, while the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the London School of Tropical Medicine and H...

objective: during the ancient times, saffron (crocus sativus l.) had many uses around the world; however, some of these uses were forgotten throughout the history. but a newly formed interest in natural active compounds brought back the attention toward historical uses of saffron. understanding different uses of saffron in the past can help us finding the best uses at present.in this study, wer...

of the Health Office and of the Inalende Maternity Centre for all the valuable assistance they afforded us during these trials. We would also like to thank members of the University of Ibadan Health Service, the Abadina Village Council, the health visitors of the School of Nursing, the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, and the Department of Paediatrics, University of Ibadan, for the...

Traditional medicine (TM) is a large comprehensive term generally used to refer to systems such as traditional Chinese medicine, Indian ayurveda and Unani medicine, and to various forms of indigenous medicine, but also in Europe there is a very long history of traditional medicine that has a respectable historical and scientific dignity, and many European citizens still rely and trust in it for...