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Health dissertation - Maternal Mortality Nigeria
I have been unable to find a report of a community-based study of Maternal Mortality in Nigeria. Therefore, this is the first known community based study estimating the incidence of maternal mortality in Nigeria. This study measured the incidence of maternal mortality in two Local Government Areas of Oyo state using the principles of the Indirect Sisterhood Method. The purpose of the study was to estimate levels of maternal mortality in an area of Oyo state; to identify the causes of maternal deaths in clinical terms; and to establish avoidable factors in the maternal deaths...
Health dissertation - Rickets Bone Disease
Hypertrophic costochondral junctions, rachitic rosary and Harrison's groove all sound like directions on a road map. However, these terms are not even remotely associated with traffic. In fact, these are symptoms of rickets, a bone disease that results from deficiencies in Vitamin D, a very important hormone, posing as a vitamin that is as crucial as sunlight for living organisms. Incidentally, the human body's ability to synthesize this compound altogether depends on how much exposure to sunlight an individual gets and upon its synthesis it controls, and is controlled, by molecular signals that can be described as a heavy but organized traffic in metabolism...
