Background: Of the approximately 2,076 plant species occurring in Lesotho, about 355 are used for medicinal purposes. Many communities country, mainly rural areas with limited access to health facilities, rely on traditional medicine as primary healthcare. Several publications provide helpful information plants purposes Lesotho. These include documentation of plants, investigation their therape...

OBJECTIVES This study assesses social workers' orientation toward the evidence-based practice (EBP) process and explores which specific variables (e.g. age) are associated. METHODS Data were collected from 341 Dutch social workers through an online survey which included a Dutch translation of the EBP Process Assessment Scale (EBPPAS), along with 13 background/demographic questions. RESULTS ...

helminths infections are chronic illness in human being and cattle. the use of alternate drugs has been a remedial measure against the resistant strains of helminth parasites, as well as means of reducing the cost of controlling diseases caused by helminthes. pseudocedrelakotschyi is a medicinally valuable plant and possesses various pharmacological properties. p. kotschyi has been traditionall...

The indigenous communities of Shishikoh valley are often using various ferns taxa regularly. current research work was intended for documenting the ethnomedicinal knowledge ferns. A total 18 were recorded that belonged to 9 genera and 6 families being used in treatment different ailments. Pteridaceae leading family with (33.33%), followed by Aspleniaceae 4 (22.22%), Athyriaceae Equisetaceae eac...

A large percentage of farmers do not respond to mail surveys. To gain insight into why farmers do not respond and how to improve response rates, a three-step research design was developed. First, an initial survey, based on in-person interviews with 15 farmers, was sent to 100 farmers. Second, farmers who did not respond to this mail survey were contacted by phone to investigate the reasons for...

OBJECTIVE Quality improvement (QI) methods have been fashionable in hospitals for decades. Previous studies have discussed the relationships between the implementation of QI methods and various external and internal factors, but there has been no examination to date of whether the neighbourhood effect influences such implementation. The aim of this study was to use a multilevel model to investi...

We believe that global health practice and evaluation operate with misleading assumptions about lack of reliability of small population-based health surveys (district level and below), leading managers and decision-makers to under-use this valuable information and programmatic tool and to rely on health information from large national surveys when neither timing nor available data meet their ne...