Paul Bourne, Bsc. (Hons.); Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION “One key feature of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action is a move towards a holistic approach to reproductive health, away from the verticality of population programmes. The vision was of a health system and a social structure that make choices available and address difficult cultural aspects that produce female genital mutilation and other forms of violence against women.” ...

PAUL ANDREW BOURNE, B.Sc. (Hons), Dip Edu. INTRODUCTION Drug use among our nations’ youth has become the focus of concern in our schools. With the widespread availability and enormous variety of drugs, serious implications are placed on the society. Kleber (1994) confirmed that the use and abuse of drugs is a critical issue in most societies and it is associated with social and economic consequences. The desire to pursue this study is based on prevailing concern of the prevalence of subst...

By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. Introduction Many peoples throughout the world and more so in Jamaica conceptualize health and health care as the absence of physical pain or any such indicators, and therefore they primarily address those symptoms. This is a rather simplistic perspective that one should take on the subject, as health is the absence of illness and the psychosocial well-being of the individual. People casually perceive health, and then th...

By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons); Dip.Edu. INTRODUCTION Many peoples throughout the world and in particular Jamaica conceptualize health and health care as the absence of physical pain or any such indicators, and therefore they address those symptoms. This is a simplistic perspective that some have on the subject but health is the absence of illness and the psychosocial well-being of the individual. People casually perceive health, and then they will addre...

By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc.; Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION Health status is the bedrock upon which all human society exists; hence, the health of a populace plays an imperative role in the wellbeing of population transition. Many peoples throughout the world and in particular Jamaica conceptualize health and health care as the absence of physical pain or any such indicators, and therefore they address those symptoms. This is based on the biomedical conceptualization of phe...

By Paul Andrew Bourne One writer forward the perspective that "studies that have examined the health-seeking behaviour of elderly people in developing countries reveal several important determinants: age, sex and poverty (18); expectations about aging (19); interpretation and experience of symptoms (20); and the degree of social integration into community (21) among other" (Ahmed, et al., 2005) Although this research is not fashioned with the ambits of the former, the determinants were ...

By Paul Andrew Bourne Fertility of the woman (Number of children had) Some people argue from a purely economic perspective that the larger the number of children a female has, the less likely it is that she will be healthier, and this is from the premise of socio-demographic conditions of child rearing and the socio-economic cost of the process. It may appear simplistic from one to believe that associated with childbearing is the reality of psychosocial condition of the state of the ...

By Paul Andrew Bourne INTRODUCTION Health is the bedrock upon which all human societies exist. Thus, the health status of a populace plays an imperative role in the wellbeing of people within a topology and social space. Many people throughout the world and in particular Jamaica conceptualize health and health care as the absence of physical pain and as such, those indicators primarily constitute health from a one-dimensional positivistic space. This is based on the biomedical con...

By Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION Health is the bedrock upon which all human societies exist. Thus, the health status of a populace plays an imperative role in the wellbeing of people within a topology and social space. Many people throughout the world and in particular Jamaica conceptualize health and health care as the absence of physical pain and as such, those indicators primarily constitute health from a one-dimensional positivistic space. This is base...