Research Methods

RESEARCH METHODS
INTRODUCTION
Many discoveries in science and specifically practice of medicine; were based on careful empirical meshs e.g. Edward Jenners discoveries of variola vaccines for small pox, John Snows of the epidemiology of epidemic cholera in London from 1448 to 1854 and established the role of polluted drinkable water in the spread of cholera. Sir Alexander Fleming between 1881 to 1955, detect penicillin in 1929 while studying the growth and reproduction of staphylococcus in dishes containing agar to which nutrients had been added.
Discoveries had continued to be made by dint of research. Medical research in Nigeria developed alongside the teaching of colonial health services. Research field units were established; the oldest which was the Rockefeller seat Yellow Fever Research social unit which later became the computer virus Research Unit (VRU) situated in Yaba, Lagos.

Helminthiasis Research Unit (HRU) in a place called Kuruba in Southern Cameroun.

alive(p) Climate Research Unit at Oshodi, Nigeria founded by the due west African Council for Medical Research (WACMR) in 1954 whose membership include Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Gambia.

The first yellow fever vaccine was produced from the pioneering work at the VRU.



The initial problem of this research unit was privation of appropriate indigenous manpower; but with the establishment of universities, Nigerians came on board and collaborative work was conducted. Funding was also a problem following Independence; the member nations of WACMR established let out bodies.
Initially, medical care in Nigeria as in some(prenominal) parts of the world was essentially curative; but eventually, attendance was drawn to epidemiological, public health, nutritional, maternal and child welfare problems. In the early part, observations made in the course of routine medical care help define the epidemiological pattern of twain effective and non effective conditions e.g. in 1933, a man know as A.B. Aitkens reported on peptic ulceration in Nigeria and in...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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