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Information and communication technology in health: A review of the literature
(Faculty of Community and Health Sciences, University of the Western Cape, 2008)
Information and communication technology has been shown to be increasingly important in the education and
professional practice of healthcare workers. The World Health Organisation (WHO) discusses the benefits of using
ICT ...
Children’s perspectives on child well-being
(University of Johannesburg, 2009)
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) through its
reporting framework for nation states has prompted increasing interest on
the measuring and monitoring of child well-being. The domains and
indicators ...
Action learning for health system governance: the reward and challenge of co-production
(Oxford University Press, 2014-08-26)
Health policy and systems research (HPSR) is centrally concerned with people, their relationships and the actions and practices they can implement towards better health systems. These concerns suggest that HPS researchers ...
Practice and power: a review and interpretive synthesis focused on the exercise of discretionary power in policy implementation by front line providers and managers
(Oxford University Press, 2014)
Tackling the implementation gap is a health policy concern in low- and middleincome
countries (LMICs). Limited attention has so far been paid to the influence of power relations over this gap. This article presents, ...
Obesity is associated with increased seminal insulin and leptin alongside reduced fertility parameters in a controlled male cohort
(BioMed Central, 2014)
Obesity appears to be associated with male reproductive dysfunction and infertility, although this has been inconsistent and inconclusive. Insulin and leptin are known mediators and modulators of the hypothalamus-pituitary-testes ...
Adaptation to the worker role: The vocational experience of South African male ex offenders
(OMICS International, 2014)
Objectives: The study is aimed at exploring, describing and understanding the experiences and perceptions of
male ex-offenders with regard to adapting to their worker roles after they have been released from prison.
Methods: ...
The Ghanaian surgical nurse and postoperative pain management: a clinical ethnographic insight
(PubMed Commons, 2014)
This study
aimed at illuminating the perceptions and responses of Ghanaian
surgical nurses regarding their patients’ POP. It also identified the
factors that influenced nurses’ pain responses. A focused ethnography ...
Fear of sexually transmitted infections among women with male migrant partners – relationship to oscillatory migration pattern and risk-avoidance behaviour
(South African Medical Association, 2006)
BACKGROUND: In South Africa, former apartheid laws
encouraged rural males seeking employment to migrate to
urban areas, moving weekly, monthly or annually between
their rural families and urban workplaces. The combination
of ...
Socio-cultural factors influencing food consumption patterns in the black African population in an urban township in South Africa
(Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2006)
The present study was undertaken to examine socio-cultural factors that influence food intake in different groups of people
residing in a black township in Cape Town. Focus group discussions and in-depth interviews were ...
The impact of male overweight on semen quality and outcome of assisted reproduction
(Medknow Publications, 2014)
The impact of obesity on male reproductive health remains a
contested topic as evidence is inconclusive and inconsistent. Even
more debatable is the effect of male obesity in assisted reproduction.
In the manuscript, ...