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Visually negotiating hegemonic discourse through Photovoice: Understanding youth representations of safety
(SAGE Publications, 2018)
Despite the immense communicative potential of visual methodologies, surprisingly few community-based research studies have meaningfully considered participants’ visual meaning-making processes. When working with youth ...
“You have to take action”: changing knowledge and attitudes towards newborn care practices during crisis in South Sudan
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Highest rates of neonatal mortality occur in countries that have recently experienced conflict.
International Medical Corps implemented a package of newborn interventions in June 2016, based on the
Newborn health in ...
“Because even the person living with HIV/AIDS might need to make babies” – Perspectives on the drivers of feasibility and acceptability of an integrated community health worker model in Iringa, Tanzania
(International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2019)
Background: Countries with health workforce shortages are increasingly turning to multipurpose community health workers (CHWs) to extend integrated services to the community-level. However, there may be tradeoffs with the ...
Role of community health workers in type 2 diabetes mellitus self-management: A scoping review
(PlOS ONE, 2018)
Globally the number of people with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has risen significantly over the last few decades. Aligned to this is a growing use of community health workers (CHWs) to deliver T2DM self-management ...
Community-university partnership to enhance wellbeing of families: factors that sustain it
(Unisa Press, 2016)
Universities have a civic responsibility to engage with communities to capacitate and develop for the purpose of health and wellbeing. Although service learning serves part of this purpose, there is an additional requirement ...
A Health professional's reflections on her own health and wellbeing and its contribution towards the Millennium Goals of South Africa.
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
The focus of this paper is to share my reflections, using the Kolb's Cycle, on my own cultural practices and its effect on lifestyle choices as a health professional, teacher and mother, in relation to South Africa's ...
Government helper and citizen advocate? A case study of the multiple roles and pressures facing a nongovernmental organization contracted by government to strengthen community health in northern India
(Wiley, 2017)
While nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) can potentially
strengthen valuable citizen political engagement, NGOs that are
increasingly oriented towards donor and government contracts may
instead contribute to depoliticizing ...
Perceptions of mothers and caregivers regarding the detection and treatment of severely malnourished children in Kanchele, Kalomo district, Zambia
(Unisa press, 2014)
Each year, malnutrition accounts for about 50 percent of the deaths of under-fives in developing
countries. In Zambia, about 45 percent of children under the age of five exhibit stunted
growth, mainly due to malnutrition. ...
Strengthening the capabilities of families and communities to improve child health in low and middle income countries
(BMJ, 2018)
The concept of community involvement in delivery of healthcare gained prominence after the 1978 Alma Ata conference on primary care. Many countries established large scale community health worker programmes with paid or ...
The role of rehabilitation care workers in South African healthcare: A Q-methodological study
(AOSIS, 2019)
The South African Department of Health identified the need to train a new cadre of community health worker (CHW) in the field of rehabilitation as part of their 2030 Health Plan that aims to improve primary healthcare (PHC) ...