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Humanos , Educação em Saúde/métodos , Educação em Saúde/tendências , Jamaica , Música/psicologia , DramaRESUMO
A programme to reduce the morbidity and mortality among young children in rural Jamaica has been developed. Locally recruited and trained health auxiliaries survey all children under five, diagnose malnutrition by application of anthropometric indices, and, according to a rigid protocol, treat the deficient children by education and demonstration at home. This economically feasible approach, relying entirely on local resources, has been followed for two years. The programme did not affect the prevalence of malnutrition, but did reduce young-child mortality by half.(AU)
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Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Lactente , Pré-Escolar , Masculino , Feminino , Nutrição da Criança , População Rural , Estatura , Peso Corporal , Gorduras na Dieta , Educação em Saúde , Mortalidade Infantil , Nutrição do Lactente , Transtornos da Nutrição do Lactente/epidemiologia , Jamaica , Mortalidade , Distúrbios Nutricionais/epidemiologiaRESUMO
The availability of cheap, transistorized radio receiving sets in Jamaica created opportunity for using radio as a means of communicating with poor country folks. A large number of these people are unable to read and understand the daily newspaper. They cannot afford and do not own television sets. This barred easy communication by the written word or by using a combination of images and sound as in television. The small transistor radio joins the machete as an essential ingredient in the field of small cultivator; it forms the constant general backdrop to domestic chores for the 'housewife'. This opportunity for mass communication has been used for 21/2 years in weekly broadcasts about health problems. A broadcaster-school teacher and a doctor have combined to create a programme called "At the Clinic". These are taped recordings in the doctor's office of unrehearsed interviews between the patient, the broadcaster and the doctor. The broadcaster and the doctor try and work within an general framework but 'listening ability' ultimately determined the shape of each programme since the first objective to be achieved is to hold the listener's attention. Subjects covered ranged from "the immediate treatment of a burn" and "the boy who swallowed a common pin" to "problems of a 14-year-old ganja smoker." Some limitations of radio as a health educating medium are discussed. The difficulty of evaluation remains (AU)
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Humanos , Comunicação , População Rural , Rádio , Planos e Programas de SaúdeRESUMO
In June 1963 an outbreak of a dengue-like illness occurred in Jamaica. The only recorded dengue epidemic in Jamaica before that of 1963 had been in 1824, as mentioned in church records of causes of death. Over 450 primary inoculations of serum from acutely ill patients and from mosquitoes associated with them were made in animals and in tissue-cell cultures. A possible isolation was made in one cell culture inoculated with material from Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, as evidenced by interference studies. Otherwise, no isolation was made, although inoculated suckling mice gave signs of disease of the central nervous system. The characterization of the epidemic as "dengue-like" was based upon the clinical course of patients and upon serological findings. (Summary)
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Humanos , Adolescente , Adulto , Camundongos , 21003 , Masculino , Feminino , Dengue/epidemiologia , Surtos de Doenças , Testes de Fixação de Complemento , Efeito Citopatogênico Viral , Dengue/microbiologia , Vírus da Dengue/isolamento & purificação , Testes de Inibição da Hemaglutinação , Insetos Vetores , Jamaica , Técnicas de Cultura , AedesRESUMO
An epidemic of influenza due to type A2 virus occurred in Jamaica during the early months of 1963. Cases were reported from all the parishes with highest incidence in Westmoreland, Clarendon, St. Ann and St. Mary. All age groups were involved, with highest attack rate in the 0-9 and 25-64 age groups and the lowest in the 10-24 year age group (AU)
