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Contextualising school readiness in South Africa: Stakeholders’ perspectives
(AOSIS, 2019)
Preparing children for mainstream school occurs in systems that act as an overarching context. The perspectives of stakeholders influence how they prepare children for mainstream education.The aim of this study was to ...
Effect of Novartis Access on availability and price of non-communicable disease medicines in Kenya: A cluster-randomised controlled trial
(Elsevier, 2019)
Novartis Access is a Novartis programme that offers a portfolio of non-communicable disease medicines at a wholesale price of US$1 per treatment per month in low-income and middle-income countries. We evaluated the effect ...
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 ...
Participation restrictions and vocational rehabilitation needs experienced by persons with a unilateral lower limb amputation in the Western Cape, South Africa
(AOSIS, 2019)
Vocational rehabilitation (VR) aims to rehabilitate a person with an amputation back into actively participating in society. Even though lower limb amputation (LLA) surgery is commonly performed in South Africa (SA), little ...
Manpower capacity and reasons for staff shortage in primary health care maternity centres in Nigeria: A mixed-methods study
(BCM, 2019)
The heart-breaking maternal and neonatal health indicators in Nigeria are not improving despite
previous interventions, such as ‘Health for all’ and ‘Millennium Development Goals. The unattained health-related
goals/targets ...
Cigarette smoking and reasons for leaving school among school dropouts in South Africa
(BMC, 2019)
School dropouts are at heightened risk of tobacco use compared to in-school learners. School
dropouts are described as those not currently enrolled in school for the academic year, have not completed their
schooling, and ...
Food purchasing characteristics and perceptions of neighborhood food environment of South Africans living in low-, middle- and high-socioeconomic neighborhoods
(MDPI, 2019)
Using intercept surveys, we explored demographic and socioeconomic factors associated with food purchasing characteristics of supermarket shoppers and the perceptions of their neighborhood food environment in urban Cape ...
Determinants of adolescent Hookah pipe use: A systematic review
(Routledge, 2019)
Adolescent hookah pipe use is increasing at a rapid rate, thus posing a major public health
concern globally. The hookah pipe is a gateway substance to other substances that may be
more harmful. Yet, at present, little ...
A review of early childhood in South Africa: The effects on maternal and child health
(2019)
Human development and the growth of strong societies are based on early childhood. Over 250 million children under the age of 5 years are not reaching their developmental potential in low-middle income countries due to ...
Nutritional knowledge, parenting styles and feeding practices of a South African sample of parents
(Routledge, 2019)
Parenting can be considered as being an all-encompassing network of development for children. Children learn about eating not
only through their own experiences but also by watching others.
Mothers and children show ...