MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCE PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 1. THE COMBINATORIAL ACTIVITY OF MORINGA OLEIFERA AND JATROPHA CURCAS ON BACTERIAL ...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Plants have been used for centuries before the advent of Orthodox medicine. Leaves, flowers, stems, roots, seeds, fruit and bark can all be constituents of herbal medicines. The medicinal values of these plants depend on their phytochemical components, which produces definite physiological actions on the human body. The most important of these p...Continue Reading »

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• 2. EFFECT OF ANTIDIABETIC AGENT GLIBENCLAMIDE AND MELTFORMINE ON LIPIDS AND GLYCATE...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF STUDY Diabetes mellitus (DM) has been defined as a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both (Akinmokun et al., 1992). Insulin is a hormone produced in pancreas and enables body cells to absorb glucose that is converted into energy when the body is in need. If the body c...Continue Reading »

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• 3. TO DETERMINE THE LEVELS OF OESTROGEN AND PROGESTERONE IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DI...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF STUDY Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic disorders in which a person has high plasma glucose, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced. The high plasma glucose produces the classical symptoms of polyuria, polydipsia and polyphagia (Rother, 2007). Type 2 diabetes mellitus, f...Continue Reading »

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• 4. FACTORS AFFECTING THE ACCEPTANCE OF COVID-19 VACCINE AMONG PATIENTS (A CASE STUD...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study COVID 19 is a respiratory disease that was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province in the people’s republic of China.1 It is caused by SARS CoV 2 and was said to have emerged from a livestock market in the city of Wuhan in December 2019. The first case of COVID 19 in Nigeria was discovered on the 27th February...Continue Reading »

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• 5. MEASURES UTILIZED FOR PREVENTION OF NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION IN THE LABOUR WARD (A ...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Nosocomial infection also known as Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) is a localized or systemic infection acquired in a hospital or any other health care facility by a patient admitted for a reason other than the pathology present during admission. It may also include an infection acquired in a healthcare facility that may manifest 48 hours aft...Continue Reading »

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• 6. THE ASSESSMENT OF POST TRUAMATIC STRESS DISORDER AMONG INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERS...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Many communities in Africa continue to be affected by long standing conflicts with mass traumatization of their populations. Nigeria, as a country has a variety of low grade conflicts that result in chronic bloodletting without the country actually being in an open state of war. Over the past decade, the political crisis over ‘indigene&rsq...Continue Reading »

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• 7. RELEVANCE OF BLOOD CULTURE TO THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT SEPTICAEMIA

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Blood is normally sterile in healthy individuals. It is the main transport mechanism connecting all different parts of the body. As it serves as a transport system for oxygen, food materials, waste products and others round the body, it can also carry microbes (Eugene et al., 1998). However, it has no normal flora and the presence of microorganism in it indicates failu...Continue Reading »

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• 8. FOOD HYGIENE PRACTICES AMONG FOOD HANDLERS

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Food hygiene practices is a subject of wide scope and it is a broad term used to describe the preservation and preparation of foods in a manner that ensures the food is safe for human consumption.1 Food hygiene deals with the prevention of contamination of food stuffs at all stages of production, collection, transportation, storage, preparation, sale and consumption. Food ...Continue Reading »

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• 9. SHATTERED ASSUMPTIONS AND COPING STYLES AS PREDICTORS OF POST TRAUMATIC STRESS D...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a trauma and stress related disorder that may develop after exposure to an event or ordeal in which death, severe physical harm or violence occurred or was threatened (Lodrick, 2007. Traumatic events that may trigger PTSD include violent personal assaults, natural or unnatural disasters, accidents, or militar...Continue Reading »

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• 10. PERCEIVED IMPACT OF HEALTH EDUCATION ON COMMUNITY HEALTH AWARENESS

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Health education is the process of educating people about health. Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, mental health and spiritual health. Health education can as well be said to be the principle by which individuals and groups of people learn to behave in a manner conducive to the promotion, maintenance ...Continue Reading »

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• 11. MEASURES UTILIZED FOR PREVENTION OF NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION IN THE LABOUR WARD

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Nosocomial infection also known as Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) is a localized or systemic infection acquired in a hospital or any other health care facility by a patient admitted for a reason other than the pathology present during admission. It may also include an infection acquired in a healthcare facility that may manifest 48 hours aft...Continue Reading »

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• 12. The Occurrence of Heavy Metals in Gills, Muscles, and Liver of Chrysichthys Nigr...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 Introduction Heavy metals are those metallic elements with high atomic or specific gravity that is at least five times greater than that of water. Several elements have been listed in this group. The presence of heavy metals in the aquatic environment in trace concentrations is important for normal development of the organism (Kori Siakpere and Ubogu, 2008). They could be detected ...Continue Reading »

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• 13. The Impact of Nutrition Education on the Dietary Habits – PDF

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Nutrition education is any combination of educational strategies, accompanied by environmental supports, designed to facilitate voluntary adoption of food choices and other food and nutrition related behaviour conducive to health and well being. Nutrition education is delivered through multiple venues and involves activities of the individual, c...Continue Reading »

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• 14. Water Cleaning Techniques – PDF

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION Water is of the materials require to sustain life. It is naturally, available and covers 70% of the earth’s crust. With the increasing demand of clean, potable water for domestic and industrial use, developing, locating and maintaining a cost effective water treatment techniques is imperative. An obvious and fundamental pollution problem at any location is waste ...Continue Reading »

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• 15. AN EPIDEMIOLOGY SURVEY FOR SCTRISTOSOMIASIS AMONG PUPILSAN EPIDEMIOLOGY SURVEY F...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease of urinary and intestinal tracts by schistosome. A specie which infect the urinary bladder is caused by schnstosome haematobuim widely found in Africa and was first discovered by bilharza in 1851 in Egyptian mummies and He also carried out an urogential tract autopsy. About 20million people are infected with schnstosome parasite, thos...Continue Reading »

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• 16. MICROBIAL EVALUATION OF RAW MILK FROM A DAIRY FARM

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND INFORMATION Milk is defined as a secretion of mammary gland of female animals. It is an exceptionally good source of protein which is of a high biological value in promoting the growth of children (ihekorany and Ngoddy, 1985). Milk is decribed as a good of outstanding interest, which is designed by nature to be complete good for very young mammals (fox and C...Continue Reading »

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• 17. Patient Suffering from Mental and Behavioral Disorder Secondary to Multiple Psyc...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction In both cities and rural area, young people and adults can be seen who have unsound minds. They wander about, sometimes begging for food or money. As they talk to themselves or to others, it can be noticed that they are mentally ill. In the neighbour hood where they live, those who now them well can trace their problems back to excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages...Continue Reading »

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• 18. AN ASSESSMENT OF THE FACTORS INFLUENCING THE INCIDENCE OF GLAUCOMA AMONG ADULT P...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Millions of people living in Nigeria are cut off from the mainstream of economic and social development due to heavy burden of diseases. Among these diseases is glaucoma which is the result of too much pressure in the eye. It is usually believed to begin after the age of 40 (forty) years and is a common cause of blindness (Mohammed,2001). Responsibi...Continue Reading »

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• 19. STUDY ON THE PREVALENCE OF MALARIA AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN ON ADMISSION

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Malaria is an infections disease caused by a parasite, plasmodium which infects red blood cells. Historical records suggest that malaria has infected human since the beginning of mankind. The name “mal aria” (Meaning bad air in Italian) was first used in English in 1740 by H. Walpole when describing the disease. The term was shortened to malaria in 20th century...Continue Reading »

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• 20. THE BODY MASS INDEX AND PERCENT BODY FAT OF YOUNG MALE ADOLESCENTS AS A PREDICTO...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION In recent times, obesity seems to have reached epidemic proportions. Its astronomical increase has been a singular factor to the cause of many premature deaths in the society (Webb, 2002) mortality rate is in the increase and life expectancy reduced. It possess many health problems that in turn leads to death. According to stage up America (2000), obesity is associated wit...Continue Reading »

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