INTRODUCTION Recent studies suggest that 23% of adult Newfoundlanders do not have a regular doctor. Using data from the 1995 Newfoundland Panel on Health and Medical Care study, we examined the urban, semi-urban and rural differences in the characteristics of adult (age 20 and over) Newfoundlanders who did and did not have a regular doctor. METHODS We used chi2 tests and logistic regression t...

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to understand what Nigerian graduates are passing through, most especially graduate library and information science programme tertiary institutions. 
 Findings: statistics unemployed in Nigeria as at 2011 showed that a disheartening figure 42.7 million with over 1,8 churned out our higher institutions yearly. It further revealed unemployment rate stood...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality of operable breast cancer care in a tertiary care institution. DESIGN A retrospective analysis of all breast cancer patients seen in our institution between 1995 and 2000. Data were abstracted from the charts of these patients. Indicators were based on an international consensus conference and other publications. SETTING A tertiary care health care institut...

This was an intervention study to assess the effects of health education on the knowledge and attitudes to emergency contraception (EC) by female students of University of Nigeria in southeast Nigeria. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 337 female students of a tertiary educational institution (150 in the study group and 187 from the control group) who were selected by mul...

objective: erroneous beliefs about causation and lack of adequate knowledge have been found to sustain deep seated negative attitudes about mental illness. conversely, better knowledge results in improved attitudes towards people with mental illness and a belief that mental illnesses are treatable can encourage early treatment seeking and promote better outcomes. the aim of this study was to as...