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A Model for Telepsychiatry for South Africa
(2012)
The access of rural Mental Health Care Users in South Africa to specialist psychiatrists and quality mental health care is currently sub-optimal. Health professionals and planners working in psychiatry lack a well-defined ...
Videoconference-based education for psychiatry registrars at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(OMICS group, 2012)
Objective: Psychiatry registrars form the backbone of specialized psychiatric service provision in South Africa. Medical schools are centralized while clinical services need to be widespread and accessible. Video-conferencing ...
"Big Food", the consumer food environment, health and the policy response in South Africa
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Summary Points:
* In South Africa, as in other jurisdictions, ‘‘Big Food’’ (large commercial entities that dominate the food and beverage environment) is becoming more widespread and is implicated in unhealthy eating.
* ...
Evaluating the construct validity of the KIDSCREEN-52 Quality of Life questionnaire in a South African context
(Psychological Society of South Africa, 2012)
The absence of a suitable measure to assess the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of children and adolescents in South Africa, led to the use of the KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire which was developed and standardised in ...
Applying a framework for assessing the health system challenges to scaling up mHealth in South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2012)
Background: Mobile phone technology has demonstrated the potential to improve health service delivery, but
there is little guidance to inform decisions about acquiring and implementing mHealth technology at scale in
health ...
Factors associated with patterns of plural healthcare utilization among patients taking antiretroviral therapy in rural and urban South Africa: a cross sectional study
(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 ...
Explaining migrant wages: the case of Zimbabwean day labourers in South Africa
(The Clute Institute, 2012)
There has been an increasing inflow of migrants and refugees into South Africa during the last two decades. The origin of these migrants is mainly from South Africa’s long-established sources of migrant workers, including ...
HIV/AIDS knowledge, behaviour and beliefs among South African university students
(2012)
Globally, South Africa has the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS. In the absence of cure, prevention is the only available method to reduce HIV prevalence rates. This can only be obtained through behavioural change, which is ...
Practice guidelines for videoconference-based telepsychiatry in South Africa
(OMICS Publishing Group, 2012)
Telepsychiatry, the practice of psychiatry over distance using information and communication technologies is, after teleradiology, the most practiced form of telemedicine in the world. As with any new technology, clinical ...
Developing telepsychiatry services in KwaZulu-Natal - an action research study
(OMICS Publishing Group, 2012)
OBJECTIVE: In 2009, the Departments of Psychiatry and Telehealth of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) initiated a three year project to develop telepsychiatry services in KwaZulu-Natal. This paper describes the ...