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Setting research priorities for preconception care in low- and middle -income countries: Aiming to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Preconception care means providing care before pregnancy is established. Women and couples of reproductive age are generally unaware of the effects that their own health conditions and healthrelated behaviors may have ... -
A shared agenda for gender and Covid-19 research: Priorities based on broadening engagement in science
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2023)While the acute and collective crisis from the pandemic is over, an estimated 2.5million people died from COVID-19 in 2022, tens of millions suffer from long COVID and national economies still reel from multiple ... -
The shared pleasure paradigm: A study in an observational birth cohort in South Africa
(Springer, 2021-07)Mother–infant dyads in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) may be exposed to a range of factors associated with suboptimal development. Optimal infant development is likely supported by synchronicity in the early ... -
"She is my teacher and if it was not for her I would be dead": Exploration of rural South African community health workers' information, education and communication activities
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)Community health workers (CHWs) are important resources in health systems affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. International guidelines on task-shifting recommend that CHWs can provide diverse HIV services, ranging from HIV ... -
Short-term and sustained effects of a health system strengthening intervention to improve mortality trends for paediatric severe malnutrition in rural South African hospitals
(Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 2017)BACKGROUND. Case fatality rates for childhood severe acute malnutrition (SAM) remain high in some resource-limited facilities in South Africa (SA), despite the widespread availability of the World Health Organization ... -
Sinako, a study on HIV competent households in South Africa: a clusterrandomised controlled trial protocol
(Pubmed, 2020): With 7.7 million South Africans currently infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and 4.8 million currently receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART), the epidemic represents a considerable burden for the country’s ... -
Skills and competencies in health data analytics for health professionals
(Routledge Original language English, 2023)Healthcare data analytics is a methodological approach to the systematic analysis of health data, and it provides opportunities for healthcare professionals to improve health system management, patient engagement, budgeting, ... -
Skills-related underemployment amongst South Africa's informally employed and self-employed: A case study of Potchefstroom
(AOSIS, 2020)Mainstream development theory views the informal sector as a shock absorber in an economic crisis. South Africa’s informal sector is smaller than that of many developing countries and very little research has investigated ... -
Social and economic barriers to adherence among patients at Livingstone General Hospital in Zambia
(AOSIS, 2019)Zambia is one of the countries hardest hit by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) pandemic with a national HIV prevalence estimated at 14% among those aged 15–49 years in ... -
Social and psychological predictors of body mass index among South Africans 15 years and older: Sanhanes-1
(MPDI, 2019)This study investigated how psychological distress and the proxies for social position combine to influence the risk of both underweight and overweight in South Africans aged 15 years and older. This was a cross-sectional ... -
Social and structural determinants of household support for ART adherence in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review
(MPDI, 2020)Adherence to HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a crucial factor in health outcomes for people living with HIV (PLWH). Interventions to support ART adherence are increasingly focused on the household as a source of social ... -
The social context of early adolescents in the global early adolescent study
(Elsevier, 2021)This paper used data from the Global Early Adolescent Study (GEAS) to provide a descriptive analysis of how early adolescents’ social environments vary by sex across diverse cultural settings.The analyses were based on ... -
Social network-based measurement of abortion incidence: promising findings from population-based surveys in Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, and Rajasthan, India
(Springer Nature, 2020)Background: Monitoring abortion rates is highly relevant for demographic and public health considerations, yet its reliable estimation is fraught with uncertainty due to lack of complete national health facility service ... -
Social protection and care: Does the Child Support Grant translate to social justice outcomes for female beneficiaries who receive it on behalf of their children?
(HSRC Press, Cape Town, South Africa, 2022)The book begins by situating the establishment of the CSG within the wider context of South Africa’s political and welfare history, and the global context of social protection. It starts off by making the case for a ... -
Social Protection in a Time of Covid
(The Black Sash, 2021)The Covid-19 Social Relief of distress Grant (Covid-19 SRD) was introduced in South Africa in May 2020 to mitigate the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. It provided for people between 18 and 59 years of age, ... -
Socialization, legitimation and the transfer of biomedical knowledge to low- and middle-income countries: analyzing the case of emergency medicine in India
(BMC, 2018)BACKGROUND: Medical specialization is a key feature of biomedicine, and is a growing, but weakly understood aspect of health systems in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including India. Emergency medicine is ... -
Socio-cultural factors influencing food consumption patterns in the black African population in an urban township in South Africa
(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 ... -
Socio-cultural, environmental and behavioural determinants of obesity in black South African women
(Clinics Cardive Publishing (Pty) Ltd, 2013)South Africa (SA) is undergoing a rapid epidemiological transition and has the highest prevalence of obesity in sub- Saharan Africa (SSA), with black women being the most affected (obesity prevalence 31.8%). Although ... -
Socio-demographic correlates and trends in the timing of the onset of parenthood among women of reproductive age in Ghana: Evidence from three waves of the demographic and health surveys
(F1000 Research Ltd, 2023)Childbearing is one of the central events in a woman’s life and the age at which this event occurs has important health, socioeconomic and fertility implications for her. Methods: We used three waves of the Ghana Demographic ...