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Factors associated with patterns of plural healthcare utilization among patients taking antiretroviral therapy in rural and urban South Africa: a cross sectional study

Moshabela, Mosa; Schneider, Helen; Silal, Sheetal; Cleary, Susan (BioMed Central, 2012)

Background: In low-resource settings, patients’ use of multiple healthcare sources may complicate chronic care and clinical outcomes as antiretroviral therapy (ART) continues to expand. However, little is known ...
Factors associated with physical activity levels among older adults in selected institutions in Rwanda

Kanyoni, Maurice; Phillips, Julie (Faculty of Community and Health Sciences, University of the Western Cape, 2009)

Background: The size of the elderly population both in numbers and proportions of the whole world is increasing rapidly. The increase in the number of elderly people in the world will exert a big impact on health and social ...
Factors contributing to poor performance of Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) in Mopani District, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Mabunda, Jabu; Bradley, Hazel A. (LAM Publications Ltd, 2011)

The purpose of the study was to assess factors contributing to poor performance of Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course (DOTS) in Mopani district of Limpopo Province, South Africa. An exploratory qualitative approach ...
Factors influencing physical activity participation among school going children

Figaji, Tamara; Phillips, Julie (Faculty of Community and Health Sciences, University of the Western Cape, 2010)

BACKGROUND: Although the health benefits of physical activity have been proven, many children and adolescents still do not meet the recommended guidelines for sufficient physical activity. The purpose of this investigation ...
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 ...
The Feasibility of implementing a sexual risk reduction intervention in routine clinical practice at an ARV clinic in Cape Town: a case study

Dewing, Sarah; Matthews, Catherine; Schaay, Nikki; Cloete, Allanise; Simbayi, Leickness; Chopra, Mickey (Springer, 2011)

This case study with one lay adherence counsellor assessed the implementation of Options for Health, a sexual risk-reduction intervention based on Motivational Interviewing (MI), in an antiretroviral clinic in Cape ...
Gender differences in experiences of ART services in South Africa: a mixed methods study

Schneider, Helen; Govender, Veloshnee; Harris, Bronwyn; Cleary, Susan; Moshabela, Mosa; Birch, Stephen (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)

Objectives: A mixed methods study exploring gender differences in patient profiles and experiences of ART services, along the access dimensions of availability, affordability and acceptability, in two rural and two urban ...
Global health research, partnership, and equity: no more business-as-usual

Zarowsky, Christina (BioMed Central, 2011)

The papers in this important collection reflect a mature and confident way of doing global health research which is anything but business-as-usual. In the context of increasing competition for individual or institutional ...
Globalisation and health inequalities: can a human rights paradigm create space for civil society action?

London, Leslie; Schneider, Helen (Elsevier Ltd, 2012)

While neoliberal globalisation is associated with increasing inequalities, global integration has simultaneously strengthened the dissemination of human rights discourse across the world. This paper explores the seeming ...
Happy in the informal economy? A case study of well-being among day labourers in South Africa

Blaauw, Phillip (Derick); Botha, Ilse; Schenck, Catherina (Rinie); Schoeman, Christie (Clute Institute, 2013)

Past research provided evidence of the negative effect that individual unemployment can have on subjective well-being. The persistent high levels of unemployment and poverty in South Africa have been well documented. Many ...
Health-promotion needs of youth with a spinal cord injury in South Africa

Njoki, Emma; Frantz, Jose M.; Mpofu, Ratie (Informa Healthcare, 2007)

Purpose. To determine the health promotion needs through an exploration of health-related behaviours and the factors that influence the behaviour of physically disabled youth with spinal cord injury. Methods. A descriptive ...
Health system barriers to implementation of collaborative TB and HIV activities including prevention of mother to child transmission in South Africa

Uwimana, Jeannine; Jackson, Debra; Hausler, Harry; Zarowsky, Christina (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)

In South Africa, the control of TB and HIV co-infection remains a major challenge despite the availability of international and national guidelines for integration of TB and HIV services. This study was undertaken in ...
Healthwise South Africa: cultural adaptation of a school-based risk prevention programme

Wegner, Lisa; Flisher, Alan J; Caldwell, Linda L; Vergnani, Tania; Smith, Edward A (Oxford University Press, 2008)

There is a need for effective prevention programmes aimed at reducing risk behaviour among South African adolescents. Health Wise South Africa is a school-based programme designed to reduce sexual and substance use risk ...
HIV/AIDS-related knowledge and behaviour of FET college students: implications for sexual health promotion

Moodley, Colleen; Phillips, Julie (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance/LAM Publications Limited, 2011)

The impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic is mostly felt by adolescents as half of all new HIV/AIDS infections have occurred in people aged 15-24 years. Statistics show that campaigns implemented by the South African government ...
How equitable is the scaling up of HIV service provision in South Africa?

Scott, Vera; Chopra, Mickey; Conrad, Liz; Ntuli, Antoinette (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2005)

OBJECTIVES. To assess the extent of inequalities in availability and utilisation of HIV services across South Africa. DESIGN. Cross-sectional descriptive study. Setting. Three districts reflecting different socio-econ ...
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. ...
Implementation, effectiveness and political context of comprehensive primary health care: preliminary findings of a global literature review

Labonte, Ron; Sanders, David; Baum, Fran; Schaay, Nikki; Packer, Corinne (CSIRO, 2008)

Primary health care (PHC) is again high on the international agenda. It was the theme of The World Health Report in 2008, thirty years after the Alma-Ata Declaration, and has been the topic of a series of significant ...
The implications of adverse childhood experiences for the professional requirements of social work

Dykes, Glynnis (University of Stellenbosch, 2011)

Introduction: Coombes and Anderson (2000:281) assert that the “extent and incidence” of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in families of origin of social workers have increasingly become the focus of research. Their ...
Improving the hospital management of malnourished children by participatory research

Puoane, Thandi; Sanders, David; Ashworth, Ann; Chopra, Mickey; Strasser, Susan; McCoy, David (Oxford University Press, 2004)

OBJECTIVE. To improve the clinical management of severely malnourished children in rural hospitals in South Africa. STUDY DESIGN. A pre- and post-intervention descriptive study in three stages: assessment of the clinical ...
Inconsistent reports of sexual intercourse among South African high school students

Palen, Lori-Ann; Smith, Edward A; Caldwell, Linda L; Flisher, Alan J; Wegner, Lisa; Vergnani, Tania (Elsevier, 2008)

Purpose: This study aims to describe patterns of inconsistent reports of sexual intercourse among a sample of South African adolescents. Methods: Consistency of reported lifetime sexual intercourse was assessed using five ...

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