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    Coverage of child health services in rural districts of Ethiopia with the health services extension program 

    Woldie, Mirkuzie; Morankar, Sudhakar Narayan; Feyissa, Garumma T.; Labonte, Ronald; Sanders, David (Academic Journals, 2015)
    Improving access to health care services has been advocated widely since the Declaration of Alma-Ata. Despite the efforts to realize this in Ethiopia, it is only in the year 2003 that the intention to take the package of ...
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    The link between parenting approaches and health behavior: a systematic review 

    Davids, Eugene Lee; Roman, Nicolette V.; Leach, Lloyd (Routledge, 2017)
    The familial home environment, where parenting takes place, plays an important role in the health behaviors that children and adolescents engage in and has implications on health and well-being in later life. Lifestyle-related ...
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    The impact of HIV infection and disease stage on the rate of weight gain and duration of refeeding and treatment in severely malnourished children in rural South African hospitals 

    Muzigaba, M.; Sartorius, B.; Puoane, Thandi; van Wyk, B.; Sanders, David (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017)
    BACKGROUND: Evidence of the effects of HIV infection and clinical stage on the duration of refeeding and treatment (DRT) and the rate of weight gain (RWG) in severely malnourished children remains inconclusive. OBJECTIVES: ...
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    Effects of early feeding on growth velocity and overweight/obesity in a cohort of HIV unexposed South African infants and children 

    Ramokolo, Vundli; Lombard, Carl; Chhagan, Meera; Engebretsen, Ingunn M.S.; Doherty, Tanya; Jackson, Debra (BioMed Central, 2015)
    BACKGROUND: South Africa has the highest prevalence of overweight/obesity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Assessing the effect of modifiable factors such as early infant feeding on growth velocity and overweight/obesity is therefore ...
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    Children’s discursive constructions of the ‘self’ 

    Benninger, Elizabeth; Savahl, Shazly (Springer Verlag, 2017)
    The ways in which children construct and assign meaning to the ‘self’ could have an impact on their social and emotional well-being, including their coping skills, relationship formation, and behaviour. Furthermore, a ...
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    Correction to: Effects of early feeding on growth velocity and overweight/obesity in a cohort of HIV unexposed South African infants and children 

    Ramokolo, Vundli; Lombard, Carl; Chhagan, Meera; Engebretsen, Ingunn M.S.; Doherty, Tanya; Goga, Ameena; Fadnes, Lars Thore; Zembe, Wanga; Jackson, Debra; Van den Broeck, Jan (BioMed Central, 2017)
    After publication of this article [1] it was brought to our attention that there were errors in the text under the heading ‘Data cleaning’, and in Table 3. The corrected text and updated Table 3 are given in this erratum.
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    Management of severe acute malnutrition in children under 5 years through the lens of health care workers in two rural South African hospitals 

    Muzigaba, Moise; van Wyk, Brian; Puoane, Thandi (AOSIS, 2018)
    BACKGROUND: Despite the widespread implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for the management of severe malnutrition in South Africa, poor treatment outcomes for children under 5 years are still ...
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    “Feeding a child slowly:” a responsive feeding behavior component likely to reduce stunting: Population-based observations from rural Zambia 

    Mugode, Raider H.; Puoane, Thandi; Michelo, Charles; Steyn, Nelia (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
    Zambia has a very high prevalence of stunting (40%). Child feeding behaviors such as “feeding the child slowly” are now receiving attention in addressing child undernutrition, particularly stunting. A study was undertaken ...
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    Dietary fat intake and red blood cell fatty acid composition of children and women from three different geographical areas in South Africa 

    Ford, Rosalyn; Faber, Mieke; Kunneke, Ernesta; Smuts, Cornelius M. (Elsevier, 2016)
    Dietary fat intake, particularly the type of fat, is reflected in the red blood cell (RBC) fatty acid (FA) profile and is vital in growth, development and health maintenance. The FA profile (%wt/wt) of RBC membrane ...
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    Independent and interactive effects of HIV infection, clinical stage and other comorbidities on survival of children treated for severe malnutrition in rural South Africa: A retrospective multicohort study 

    Muzigaba, Moise; Puoane, Thandi; Sartorius, B.; Sanders, David (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2017)
    BACKGROUND. There is still limited to no evidence on the independent and interactive effects of HIV infection, disease stage, baseline disease severity and other important comorbidities on mortality risk among young ...
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