In a house-to-house study of 994 urban Zulus the prevalence of hypertension according to WHO criteria was 25% (23% men, 27% women). In a rural Zulu study of 987 the prevalence age corrected to the urban distribution was 9.4% (8.7% men, 10% women). Thus there was a pronounced difference between the prevalence of hypertension in the urban and rural Zulu (p less than 0.0005). There was an earlier ...

The role of occupational therapy in prevention has received much discussion but relatively little empirical testing and model building. Because of the evidence linking stress and illness, the life stress process has become a popular area of investigation. More importantly, a role strain model can provide a theoretical guide to occupational therapy practice due to the central importance of adapt...

Background Case finding is a major problem in the programme of tuberculosis (TB) control at Kalimantan Timur. Low finding of new cases indicates that TB infection in the community is still relatively high and the programme is not yet focused on efforts to cut infection chain. Health centres with DOTS strategy are operated by standardised trained health staff known as health centre TB team. The ...

BACKGROUND Childhood tuberculosis (TB) has been a neglected area in national TB control programme (NTCP) in high burden countries. The NTP Pakistan adapted the global approaches by developing and piloting its policy guideline on childhood TB in ten districts of the country. We developed an intervention package including a deskguide and a monitoring tool and tested with the ongoing childhood TB ...

BACKGROUND We aimed to evaluate the timeliness of reporting of malaria surveillance system and understanding the existing problems. METHODS The timeliness of malaria surveillance system of Iran was evaluated in four provinces of Iran including Sistan & Baluchistan, Hormozgan, Kerman (as provinces with local malaria transmission) and Khuzestan (without local malaria transmission). In this desc...