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Affirmative action in South Africa: Are we creating new casualties?
(Wiley, 2013)
Affirmative action policies in South Africa and other countries have been
designed to address inequity and discrimination, and to manage a wide range
of diversity in all spheres of life, particularly after the end of ...
Trajectories of adolescent substance use development and the influence of healthy leisure: a growth mixture modeling approach
(Elsevier, 2016)
Considerable heterogeneity exists in adolescent substance use development. To most
effectively prevent use, distinct trajectories of use must be identified as well as differential
associations with predictors of use, ...
Leisure boredom, timing of sexual debut, and co-occurring behaviors among South African adolescents
(Springer, 2021-08)
Sex during adolescence is normative; however, there are substantial individual differences in the timing and context of sexual debut. Leisure boredom is an underexplored correlate of sexual behavior that is associated with ...
Effects of an exercise programme with people living with HIV: Research in a disadvantaged setting
(Routledge, 2014)
This study aimed to analyse the physical health effects of a community based 10-week physical activity programme with people living with HIV. It was developed, implemented and evaluated in a disadvantaged community in South ...
Therapeutic recreation as a developing profession in South Africa
(Routledge, 2015)
South Africa experiences socio-economic challenges with a high prevalence of poverty resulting in disability and non-communicable diseases affecting the health and welfare of communities. Health services are not always ...
Factors contributing to the risk of HIV infection in rural school-going adolescents
(MDPI, 2014)
The objective of this study was to determine the factors that increase the risk of HIV infection in rural school-going adolescents and young adults. This was a cross-sectional study of 430 secondary school students (47.4% ...
Whole-system change: case study of factors facilitating early implementation of a primary health care reform in a South African province
(BioMed Central, 2014)
BACKGROUND: Whole-system interventions are those that entail system wide changes in goals, service delivery arrangements and relationships between actors, requiring approaches to implementation that go beyond projects or ...
Nutritional value of cooked offal derived from free-range rams reared in South Africa
(Elsevier, 2013)
Nutritional value of Dorper (n=10) and Merino (n=10) by-products were evaluated. Proximate composition
differed between organs and breeds with Merino heart (68.9 g/100 g), spleen (77.2 g/100 g) and testicles
(83.7 g/100 ...
Forced sexual experiences and sexual situation self-efficacy among South African youth
(Wiley, 2015)
Nearly 20% of South African youth experience forced or coerced sexual intercourse. Understanding the factors associated
with forced sex is important for informing prevention programs aimed at reducing sexual violence and ...
Validity and reliability of the South African health promoting schools monitoring questionnaire
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
Health promoting schools, as conceptualised by the World Health Organisation, have been developed
in many countries to facilitate the health-education link. In 1994, the concept of health promoting
schools was introduced ...