Browsing School of Public Health by Author "Hughes, Gail"
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Ability to manage diabetes – community health workers’ knowledge, attitudes and beliefs
Hughes, Gail; Puoane, Thandi; Bradley, Hazel A. (SEMDSA (Society for Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of SA), 2006)BACKGROUND: Diabetes constitutes a significant health problem in South Africa. Early detection and good management can prevent or delay complications, with national guidelines for diabetes treatment now available to ... -
Communication on sexual issues between migrant males and their partners: a study undertaken in rural South Africa
Hughes, Gail; Puoane, Thandi (University of the Western Cape, 2006)INTRODUCTION: Women stay alone with their children in rural places while their husbands I partners work away from home for varying periods of time. Such fluctuating migration may cause difficulty in communications and may ... -
Fear of sexually transmitted infections among women with male migrant partners – relationship to oscillatory migration pattern and risk-avoidance behaviour
Hughes, Gail; Hoyo, Catherine; Puoane, Thandi (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 ... -
Health-seeking behaviours of older black women living with non-communicable diseases in an urban township in South Africa
Aboyade, Oluwaseyi; Beauclair, R.; Mbamalu, Oluchi; Puoane, Thandi; Hughes, Gail (BioMed Central, 2016)BACKGROUND: Various studies have shown that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) especially diabetes and hypertension are prevalent among older women living in South African urban areas, placing a heavy burden on the healthcare ... -
Impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on non-communicable disease prevention
Puoane, Thandi; Hughes, Gail (South African Medical Association, 2005-04)HIV/AIDS continues to ravage sub-Saharan Africa, and in South Africa accounts for 30% of all mortality, making it the leading cause of death. The epidemic has had other negative effects, which have not been fully realised. ... -
Obesity among black South African women
Puoane, Thandi; Hughes, Gail; Bradley, Hazel A. (Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2005)Obesity and associated non-communicable diseases such as Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and ischaemic heart disease were previously thought to be diseases of affluent countries, but they are becoming increasingly prevalent ... -
The prevalence of traditional herbal medicine use among hypertensives living in South African communities
Hughes, Gail; Aboyade, Oluwaseyi; Clark, Bobby; Puoane, Thandi (Biomedcentral, 2013)BACKGROUND: In South Africa, over 6 million people are hypertensive and the burden of disease shows that cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death among adults. Although treatments exist, few people ... -
Socio-cultural factors influencing food consumption patterns in the black African population in an urban township in South Africa
Puoane, Thandi; Matwa, Princess; Hughes, Gail; Bradley, Hazel A. (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 ...