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'Big is beautiful' – an exploration with urban black community health workers in a South African township
(South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2005)
OBJECTIVES: To explore perceptions about factors associated with body weight and body image among black
female community health workers (CHWs) living and working in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.
DESIGN: A descriptive, ...
Communication on sexual issues between migrant males and their partners: a study undertaken in rural South Africa
(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 ...
Training nurses to save lives of malnourished children
(Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa, 2006)
A qualitative study with a pre- and post-intervention component was undertaken among 66 professional nurses at 11 hospitals in the Eastern Cape to assess their perceptions and attitudes towards severely malnourished children ...
Improving the hospital management of malnourished children by participatory research
(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 ...
Ability to manage diabetes – community health workers’ knowledge, attitudes and beliefs
(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 ...
Obesity in South Africa: The South African Demographic and Health Survey
(Nature Publishing Group, 2002)
To ascertain the anthropometric profile and determinants of obesity in South Africans who participated in the Demographic and Health Survey in 1998.
RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES: A sample of 13,089 men and women (age, ...
Chronic non-communicable diseases
(Health Systems Trust, 2008)
This chapter will examine the current actions, including lifestyle measures, for the prevention and management of non-communicable diseases within a South African context. It will also focus on the biological, behavioural ...
Why do some hospitals achieve better care of severely malnourished children than others? Five-year follow-up of rural hospitals in Eastern Cape, South Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2008)
Staff at 11 rural hospitals in an under-resourced region of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, participated in an intervention to improve the quality of care of severely malnourished children through training and support ...
Obesity in South Africa: Challenges for government and health professionals
(Nutrition Society, 2005)
OBJECTIVES: To review data on the prevalence, causes and health consequences of
obesity in South Africa and propose interventions to prevent and treat obesity and
related outcomes.
METHODS: Data from existing literature ...
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to excess body weight in South Africa in 2000
(South African Medical Association, 2007)
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the burden of disease attributable to
excess body weight using the body mass index (BMI), by age
and sex, in South Africa in 2000.
DESIGN: World Health Organization comparative risk
assessment ...