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Is there room for improvement? Intervening at facility and district level to improve access and quality of care in a well-performing TB Control Programme: the Cape Town experience
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012)
Objectives. To use a quality improvement approach to improve
access to and quality of tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and care in
Cape Town.
Methods. Five HIV/AIDS/sexually transmitted infections/TB
(HAST) evaluations were ...
Constraints to implementing an equity-promoting staff allocation policy: understanding key actors perspectives affecting implementation in South Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2012)
Much of current research on issues of equity in low- and middle-income
countries focuses on uncovering and describing the extent of inequities in health
status and health service provision. In terms of policy responses ...
Curriculum transformation: a proposed route to reflect a political consciousness in occupational therapy education
(Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2012)
Introduction: Curriculum review is an ongoing, dynamic, long-term process that forms part of occupational therapy education. The
Department of Occupational Therapy, University of the Western Cape (UWC) recently responded ...
Interventions for out-of-school contexts
(UCT Press, 2012)
Introduction: Violence has become part of normal,everyday life for many young South Africans.
Emerging aeromonas species infections and their significance in public health
(Hindawi Publishers Corporation, 2012)
Aeromonas species are ubiquitous bacteria in terrestrial and aquatic milieus. They are becoming renowned as enteric pathogens of
serious public health concern as they acquire a number of virulence determinants that are ...
Unequal access to ART: exploratory results from rural and urban case studies of ART use
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2012)
INTRODUCTION: South Africa has the world's largest antiretroviral treatment (ART) programme. While services in the public sector are free at the point of use, little is known about overall access barriers. This paper ...
The role and linkages of buy-back centres in the recycling industry: Pretoria and Bloemfontein (South Africa)
(University of Johannesburg, 2012)
Purpose/objectives: The aim of this paper is to get a better understanding of the role and linkages of buy-back centres (BBCs) in the recycling industry. The first objective is to analyse the institutional profile of the ...
Training community care workers to provide comprehensive TB⁄HIV⁄PMTCT integrated care in KwaZulu-Natal: Lessons learnt
(Wiley, 2012)
To describe a participatory approach to implement and evaluate ways to integrate and traincommunity care workers (CCWs) to enhance collaborative TB⁄HIV⁄PMTCT activities, and home-basedHIV counseling and testing (HCT) at ...
Engagement of non-government organisations and community care workers in collaborative TB/HIV activities including prevention of mother to child transmission in South Africa: Opportunities and challenges
(BMC, 2012)
The implementation of collaborative TB/HIV activities may help to mitigate the impact of the dual epidemic on patients and communities. Such implementation requires integrated interventions across facilities and levels of ...