OBJECTIVES Even though Philippines is widely known as exporters of health workers in the world, the Occidental Mindoro province suffers from a lack of health workers compared with the total population of each municipality. The aim of this study was to observe, identify, and understand the persisting health status, knowledge, and practices among the three selected communities in Occidental Mindo...

The importance of shea tree to the people of south-western Nigeria cannot be over emphasized considering both the economic and environmental uses of the tree. However, efforts have not been made to propagate its production by the farmers as the shea tree still grows in the wild state. It would be worthwhile to investigate farmers’ perception of shea nut tree as an economic tree and their attitu...

BACKGROUND The study aims to test the differential effects of a web-based text and a web-based video-driven computer-tailored approach for lower socio-economic status (LSES) and higher socio-economic status (HSES) smokers which incorporate multiple computer-tailored feedback moments. The two programs differ only in the mode of delivery (video- versus text-based messages). The paper aims to desc...

rural households in nigeria are vulnerable to shock because of their limited capacity to make informed decision on secured coping strategies which is further aggravated by some households’ specific socio-economic characteristics. attempts were made to identify shocks being faced by households’ heads and coping strategies. multistage sampling technique was used to select 80 respondents and well ...

background: colorectal cancer (crc) is the third most common malignancy in iran. limited data are available on knowledge and barriers in regard to crc and screening tests in iran. the aim of  the study was to characterize knowledge, practice, and barriers toward crc and its screening tests among an iranian at‑risk population. methods: this cross‑sectional study was conducted with participation ...

BACKGROUND Different studies have reported the effectiveness of Web-based computer-tailored lifestyle interventions, but economic evaluations of these interventions are scarce. OBJECTIVE The objective was to assess the cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of a sequential and a simultaneous Web-based computer-tailored lifestyle intervention for adults compared to a control group. METHODS The ...

the study examined the socio-economic and farm level characteristics influencing adoption of rice production technologies in lavun local government area of niger state, nigeria. a total of 76 farmers were randomly selected from 24 villages and data were collected using interview schedule. descriptive statistics, adoption index and discriminate analysis were used to analyze data. the result reve...

the study comparatively identified the benefits of mobile telephone to users in selected rural and urban locations in obio/akpor local government area of rivers state, nigeria. stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used in selecting 60 rural and 60 urban phone users to have a total sample size of 120 respondents. structured questionnaire was used to generate data that were analy...

the study investigated the loan repayment, its determinants and socio-economic characteristics of microfinance loan beneficiaries in the southeast states of nigeria. it was carried out in three states of the five southeast states. using a multistage sampling technique, a total of 144 loan beneficiaries in the three segments of mfis, namely; formal (commercial and development banks); semi-formal...