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National guidance and district-level practices in the supervision of community health workers in South Africa: A qualitative study
(Human Resources for Health, 2019)
Background: Supportive supervision is considered critical to community health worker programme performance, but there is relatively little understanding of how it can be sustainably done at scale. Supportive supervision ...
A health system framework for perinatal care in South African district hospitals: A Delphi technique
(BMC Health Services Research, 2019)
The majority of perinatal deaths occurring in low- and middle- income countries are preventable. South Africa is a middle-income country with consistently high perinatal mortality rates and most factors contributing to ...
The supervisory relationships of community health workers in primary health care: social network analysis of ward-based outreach teams in Ngaka Modiri Molema District, South Africa
(BMJ Global Health, 2019)
Introduction Supportive supervision remains a key challenge to the sustainability of community health worker (CHW) programmes globally. The aim of the study was to identify critical actors and patterns of relationships in ...
Cost and cost-effectiveness of a parenting programme to prevent violence against adolescents in South Africa
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2019)
This paper presents the costs and costeffectiveness of ‘Parenting for Lifelong Health: Sinovuyo
Teen’, a non-commercialised parenting programme aimed
at preventing violence against adolescents in low-income
and middle-income ...
Low intake of commonly available fruits and vegetables in socio-economically disadvantaged communities of South Africa: influence of affordability and sugary drinks intake
(BMC, 2019)
Consumption of fruits and vegetables reduces the risk of obesity, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular
mortality and all-cause mortality. The study assessed the pattern of intake and the factors that influence daily intake
of ...
Adolescent girls’ perceptions of breastfeeding in two low-income periurban communities in South Africa
(Routledge, 2019)
In South Africa, exclusive breastfeeding rates are low, and
rates of teenage pregnancy are high. Educational policy enables mothers’ return to school, which conflicts with policy
emphasizing exclusive breastfeeding. We ...
Adapting the diabetes prevention program for low and middle-income countries: Protocol for a cluster randomised trial to evaluate lifestyle Africa
(BMJ, 2019)
Low and middle-income countries like South Africa are experiencing major increases in burden of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular conditions. However, evidence-based interventions to address ...
Changes in rates of early exclusive breast feeding in South Africa from 2010 to 2013: Data from three national surveys before and during implementation of a change in national breastfeeding policy
(BMJ, 2019)
Between 1998 and 2009 reported exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) rates in South African infants, aged 0–6 months, ranged from 6.2% to 25.7%. In 2011, the National Minister of Health shifted policy to promote ‘exclusive’ breast ...
A descriptive analysis of the role of a WhatsApp clinical discussion group as a forum for continuing medical education in the management of complicated HIV and TB clinical cases in a group of doctors in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
(AOSIS, 2019)
As South Africa’s (SA) HIV programme increases in size, HIV/TB cases occur
that are often beyond the clinical scope of primary healthcare clinicians. In SA’s Eastern
Cape (EC) province, health facilities are geographically ...
Reasons why insured consumers co-pay for medicines at retail pharmacies in Pretoria, South Africa
(AOSIS, 2019)
Costly prescription medicines with existing cheaper alternatives tend to be
purchased by medically insured consumers of healthcare. In South Africa medical scheme
members pay higher out-of-pocket payments for medicines ...