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Undergraduate nurses reflections on Whatsapp use in improving primary health care education
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015)
BACKGROUND: The global use of mobile devices with their connectivity capacity, and integrated with the affordances of social media networks, provides a resource-rich platform for innovative student-directed learning ...
Health care professionals and family perspectives of youth’s trauma: Suggestions for coaching and self-leadership
(Bentham Open, 2015)
Family forms the first and most important social institution in every society. Although traumatised families may be the root of much personal and social turmoil, a healthy community and family is the most vital way to deal ...
Strengthening human resources for primary health care
(Health Systems Trust, 2008)
This chapter reviews the progress made in recent years to strengthen human
resources to deliver health care within a Primary Health Care approach. It focuses
specifically on the availability and preparedness of old and ...
Health promotion in Australian multi-disciplinary primary health care services: case studies from South Australia and the Nothern Territory
(Oxford University Press, 2013)
This paper reports on the health promotion and disease
prevention conducted at Australian multi-disciplinary
primary health care (PHC) services and considers the ways
in which the organizational environment affects the ...
Emerging roles and competencies of district and sub-district pharmacists: a case study from Cape Town
(BioMed Central, 2015)
District and sub-district pharmacist positions were created during health sector reform in South Africa.
High prevalence of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and increasing chronic non-communicable diseases have drawn attention ...
Clinical psychology training in South Africa: a call to action
(Sage Publications, 2013)
With the profession of clinical psychology and its formal training programmes less than 40 years old in South Africa, it is important that efforts are made to critically examine its challenges and the extent to which it ...
The challenges of reshaping disease specific and care oriented community based services towards comprehensive goals: a situation appraisal in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2015)
Similar to other countries in the region, South Africa is currently reorienting a loosely structured and
highly diverse community care system that evolved around HIV and TB, into a formalized, comprehensive and
integrated ...
Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: South African examples of a leadership of sensemaking for primary health care
(Biomed Central, 2014)
BACKGROUND: New forms of leadership are required to bring about the fundamental
health system changes demanded by primary health care (PHC). Using theory about
complex adaptive systems and policy implementation, this ...
Satisfaction with quality of healthcare at primary healthcare settings: Perspectives of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)
Measuring client satisfaction is part of the quality assurance process and has
become an integral part of healthcare management strategies globally. It is essential for
improvement of amenities in healthcare facilities