Understanding cultural influences on back pain and back pain research.

Low back pain is highly prevalent and places a considerable burden on individuals, their families and communities. This back pain burden is unequally distributed around the world and within populations. Clinicians and researchers addressing back pain should be aware of the cultural, social and political context of back pain patients and how this context can influence pain perception, disability and health care use.

Screening for developmental delay among children attending a rural community welfare clinic in Ghana.

Background: Periodic screening for developmental delays (DD) could avert the incidence of disability among children. However, such routine programme is yet to take off in rural welfare clinics in Ghana.

Method: Mothers of under-5 children who were attending rural child welfare clinic participated in this study.

Nosocomial infections: knowledge and source of information among clinical health care students in Ghana.

Background: This study determined and compared the knowledge of nosocomial infections among clinical health care students at the College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana.

Methods: Two hundred undergraduate health care students from four academic programs participated in the study. The study sample was drawn from each academic program by a simple random sampling technique using the class directory from each course.