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Vision-related quality-of-life in Jamaican glaucoma patients at Kingston Public Hospital [PDF]
International Journal of Ophthalmology, 2022 AIM: To determine the vision-related quality-of-life of glaucoma patients and the association between clinical and socioeconomic factors, and vision-related quality-of-life. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study.
Valence A Jordan, Lizette L Mowatt
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Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, 2023 Historically, Jamaican culture has been positioned at odds with the development of LGBTQ rights. Though the locale has been making steps towards accepting different groups, its stalwart history of heterotypical male and female roles is still ingrained in
Nadia Whiteman-Charles
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Industrially produced trans fat and saturated fat content of food products in Jamaica
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2023 Objective. To estimate industrially produced trans and saturated fatty acid levels in foods within the Jamaican food system. Methods. A total of 308 commonly consumed foods were selected for analysis based on their potential to contain trans fatty acids.
Rasheed Perry +2 more
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Culinary tourism and post-pandemic travel: Ecosystem responses to an external shock [PDF]
Journal of Tourism, Heritage & Services Marketing, 2021 Purpose: The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) global pandemic forced hospitality and tourism service providers to respond by pivoting business models in line with governmental restrictions to curb the spread of the virus.
Pauline A. Milwood, Anne P. Crick
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Comparative cost of diets for low-income families in the Caribbean
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2022 Objective. To assess the ability of low-income families to obtain a standard basket of healthy foods before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods.
Fitzroy J. Henry +2 more
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Archives of Surgery, 2003 Jamaica, at 4244 square miles (6830 km 2 ) and with some 2.6 million inhabitants, is the largest and most populous country in the English-speaking Caribbean (Figure). The island is best known for its tourism industry, excellent rums, jerked pork, and, of course, reggae music.
Peter, Fletcher +3 more
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Journal of Public Health Research, 2022 Background: Rational use of medicines (RUM) offers a cost-saving strategy to maximize therapeutic outcomes. The aims of this study were to assess RUM for chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) using the World Health Organization’s (WHO) prescribing ...
Donna-Marie Wynter-Adams +4 more
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International Psychiatry, 2010 The intense historical relationship linking Jamaica and Britain to 300 years of the transatlantic slave trade and 200 years of colonialism has left 2.7 million souls living in Jamaica, 80% of African origin, 15% of mixed Creole background and 5% of Asian Indian, Chinese and European ancestry. With a per capita gross domestic product of US$4104 in 2007,
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