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Re-orientation of Indigenous Environmental Health Norms through Contemporary Religious Institutions in Mara Region in Tanzania and Coast Province of Kenya
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)This paper underscores that sustainable environmental health education among African communities requires a shift of perceptions, which are based on people s environmental health norms. The polemic assesses the possibility ... -
Relevance of Environmental Health Education
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)Environmental Health Education offered in learning institutions is intended to serve a dual purpose. First, it is to generate and impart new knowledge on how to respond to environmental health problems and secondly, it is ... -
Preventive Health Curricular in Kenya: A Quest for Policy Backup
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)Going by the WHO 1948 Alma Ata declaration, the current decade (2001 to 2010) was envisioned to be "healthy for all". In Kenya, though some diseases like small pox and polio have since in way been controlled, other challenging ... -
Poverty and Environmental Health in Garissa, Kenya: Reflecting the Links
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)At independence, the government of Kenya identified poverty, disease, illiteracy and ignorance as obstacles to national development and had to formulate policy strategies, which have been articulated in National Development ... -
Health Education in Kenya: Present Perspectives and Challenges
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)The demand for Health Education in Kenya has been made possible by the vast improvement in the knowledge of methods of prevention and control of diseases as well as the pressing need to find solutions to the aggravated ... -
Forests, Deforestation and Human Health
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)Abstract Trees and forests have beneficial effects on the environment. They conserve biodiversity, protect soils and watersheds and act as a carbon sink. Deforestation on the other hand results in deleterious effects ... -
Bacteriological Quality in Freshwater Reservoirs in Kericho Tea Estates in Kenya: Implications for Environmental Health Education
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)This study was aimed at assessing the bacteriological quality of the drinking water sources in Tea Plantation Estates of Kericho District with a view to relating the water quality aspects to the frequency of waterborne ... -
Water Quality and Environmental Health Education
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)Fresh water is a finite resource, essential for agriculture, industry and for human existence. Without fresh water of adequate quantity and quality, sustainable development is not possible. Water pollution and wasteful use ... -
The Status, Constraints and Environmental Health Implications of Service Provision and Management in Informal Settlements of Eldoret Municipality, Kenya
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)One of the major challenges facing local authorities in developing countries is how to meet the ever-rising demand for urban environmental services. The problem is prominent in urban informal settlements where service ... -
The Role of Alternative Medicine in Kenya: Experiences of a Herbal Practitioner
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)In Kenya there are about 15 medical doctors for every 100,000 persons, a ratio that is quite low. Due to this, people are bound to seek other forms of health care. For this reason, about 80% of people in the developing ... -
The Potential of Medicinal Plants in Africa: The Current Challenges for Environmental Health
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)There is great potential in the sale of herbal medicine in the world. The trade worldwide currently exceeds USD 5 billion per year. In Eastern Africa, consumption of herbal medicines especially in arid and semi arid areas ... -
The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health and the Need for Health Education in Kenya
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)Human health is dependent on a good and clean environment and many of the factors that lead to a deteriorated environment also lead to poor health. Pollution of the atmosphere, lack of sufficient and or polluted water ... -
The Implications of Water Governance System on Environmental Health in Marginalised Communities in the Arid and Semi-arid Regions in Kenya: The Case of Njemps of Kenya
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)Water is not only ecologically complex, but also socially, politically and economically loaded with meaning and opportunity. It forms a vital part of social infrastructure, playing a key role in health, industry, agriculture, ... -
The Impact of Household Energy and Indoor Air Pollution on the Health of the Poor: Implications for Policy Action and Intervention
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)More than 2 billion of the world’s poorest people still rely on biomass and coal burning for household energy needs. Use of these fuels leads to levels of indoor air pollution many times higher than acceptable ambient air ... -
The Impact of Drug Abuse Sensitisation Campaigns in Kenya
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)The use of drugs for purposes other than therapeutic ones by youths in Kenya is a worrying issue. This is made more complex by the fact that drug abuse is on the increase. This study sought to find out why drug abuse was ...
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Re-orientation of Indigenous Environmental Health Norms through Contemporary Religious Institutions in Mara Region in Tanzania and Coast Province of Kenya
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)This paper underscores that sustainable environmental health education among African communities requires a shift of perceptions, which are based on people s environmental health norms. The polemic assesses the possibility ... -
Relevance of Environmental Health Education
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)Environmental Health Education offered in learning institutions is intended to serve a dual purpose. First, it is to generate and impart new knowledge on how to respond to environmental health problems and secondly, it is ... -
Preventive Health Curricular in Kenya: A Quest for Policy Backup
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)Going by the WHO 1948 Alma Ata declaration, the current decade (2001 to 2010) was envisioned to be "healthy for all". In Kenya, though some diseases like small pox and polio have since in way been controlled, other challenging ... -
Poverty and Environmental Health in Garissa, Kenya: Reflecting the Links
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)At independence, the government of Kenya identified poverty, disease, illiteracy and ignorance as obstacles to national development and had to formulate policy strategies, which have been articulated in National Development ... -
Bacteriological Quality in Freshwater Reservoirs in Kericho Tea Estates in Kenya: Implications for Environmental Health Education
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)This study was aimed at assessing the bacteriological quality of the drinking water sources in Tea Plantation Estates of Kericho District with a view to relating the water quality aspects to the frequency of waterborne ... -
Water Quality and Environmental Health Education
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)Fresh water is a finite resource, essential for agriculture, industry and for human existence. Without fresh water of adequate quantity and quality, sustainable development is not possible. Water pollution and wasteful use ... -
The Status, Constraints and Environmental Health Implications of Service Provision and Management in Informal Settlements of Eldoret Municipality, Kenya
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)One of the major challenges facing local authorities in developing countries is how to meet the ever-rising demand for urban environmental services. The problem is prominent in urban informal settlements where service ... -
The Role of Alternative Medicine in Kenya: Experiences of a Herbal Practitioner
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)In Kenya there are about 15 medical doctors for every 100,000 persons, a ratio that is quite low. Due to this, people are bound to seek other forms of health care. For this reason, about 80% of people in the developing ... -
The Potential of Medicinal Plants in Africa: The Current Challenges for Environmental Health
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)There is great potential in the sale of herbal medicine in the world. The trade worldwide currently exceeds USD 5 billion per year. In Eastern Africa, consumption of herbal medicines especially in arid and semi arid areas ... -
The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health and the Need for Health Education in Kenya
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)Human health is dependent on a good and clean environment and many of the factors that lead to a deteriorated environment also lead to poor health. Pollution of the atmosphere, lack of sufficient and or polluted water ... -
The Implications of Water Governance System on Environmental Health in Marginalised Communities in the Arid and Semi-arid Regions in Kenya: The Case of Njemps of Kenya
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)Water is not only ecologically complex, but also socially, politically and economically loaded with meaning and opportunity. It forms a vital part of social infrastructure, playing a key role in health, industry, agriculture, ... -
The Impact of Household Energy and Indoor Air Pollution on the Health of the Poor: Implications for Policy Action and Intervention
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)More than 2 billion of the world’s poorest people still rely on biomass and coal burning for household energy needs. Use of these fuels leads to levels of indoor air pollution many times higher than acceptable ambient air ... -
Health Education in Kenya: Present Perspectives and Challenges
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)The demand for Health Education in Kenya has been made possible by the vast improvement in the knowledge of methods of prevention and control of diseases as well as the pressing need to find solutions to the aggravated ... -
Forests, Deforestation and Human Health
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)Abstract Trees and forests have beneficial effects on the environment. They conserve biodiversity, protect soils and watersheds and act as a carbon sink. Deforestation on the other hand results in deleterious effects ... -
The Impact of Drug Abuse Sensitisation Campaigns in Kenya
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)The use of drugs for purposes other than therapeutic ones by youths in Kenya is a worrying issue. This is made more complex by the fact that drug abuse is on the increase. This study sought to find out why drug abuse was ... -
Tbe Impact of Poverty on tbe Nutritional Intake of Expectant Women
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)The health and well being of expectant women depend greatly on the nutritional intake and moral support received from family and the community. Studies done show that malnutrition before, during and after pregnancy coupled ... -
Community Participation in Environment Health Education: A Case Study of Two Residential Estates in Nairobi, Kenya
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)Geographers and environmental scientists have marveled at the nature of cities round the world and the rate at which environmental degradation is eroding the beauty of the earth. The provision of basic urban services has ... -
An Assessment of the Impact Of Improved Child Care Campaigns on Child Health. An Environmental Health Perspective Among Pre-School Children In Kasarani Division
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd., 2004)Many children in the wild today continue to suffer the consequences of environmental degradation. Collapsing ecosystems leave them less able to realize their rights and sustain their basic needs, for example, clean food, ...