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Impact of culture on the adoption of diabetes self-management applications: Cape flats, South Africa
(ifip, 2021)
Diabetes is a global health problem with a high mortality rate. The research indicates low
levels of technology use amongst diabetic patients in low socioeconomic environments
and minority groups. We posit that the culture ...
Impact of Socio-Demographic Factors on the Acceptance of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) for Diabetes Self-care
(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2020)
This research investigates the impact of socio-demographic factors
such as age, gender, income and location on ICT acceptance for diabetes selfcare.
The investigation is due to the increasing number of diabetic patients ...
Cash transfers for sustainable rural livelihoods? Examining the long-term productive effects of the Child Support Grant in South Africa
(Elsevier, 2020)
Cash transfers have received increased scholarly and policy attention, as a means of reducing poverty in the global South. While cash transfers are primarily intended to prevent impoverishment and deprivation, several ...
Barriers for user acceptance of Mobile Health applications for Diabetic patients: Applying the UTAUT model
(Springer Nature, 2020)
The literature illustrates that technology will widen health disparity
if its use is restricted to patients who are already motivated and demonstrate
good self-management behaviours. Additionally, despite the availability ...
Changing people, changing lives through public participation and social transformation: A south African case study of a rural development programme
(Routledge, 2020)
During 2009, in what seemed to be a return to RDP-style thinking, the Comprehensive Rural
Development Programme (CRDP) was adopted nationally to tackle not only
underdevelopment, poverty, unemployment, and other social ...
‘The nurse did not even greet me’: how informed versus non-informed patients evaluate health systems responsiveness in South Africa
(BMJ Global Health, 2021-04)
Introduction Universal Health Coverage is not only
about access to health services but also about access
to high-quality
care, since poor experiences may deter
patients from accessing care. Evidence shows that quality
of ...
Op-ed1: Towards an enabling environment for a digital ecosystem : A foundation for entrepreneurial activity
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
During a recent webinar on the topic of digital inclusion and women entrepreneurship, I had the opportunity to share my perspectives in respect of ICT policy with a very engaged audience from across South Africa.
The event ...
Evaluating Family as an Instrument for Policy in Human Capabilities
(macrothink Institute, 2021)
The capabilities" approach has overtime offers instructive insights into the improvement of human capabilities in various fields such as behavioural change, social inequalities, poverty, unemployment, and education. To ...
Customer satisfaction at an online store in South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
Online shopping has become a common way in which retail businesses are conducted across most parts of the world. South African (SA) retailers such as Takealot, Makro, and Spree added this function to their existing operations. ...
Revisiting the COVID-19 vulnerability index in South Africa
(Routledge, 2021)
This study uses the Census 2011 and Community Survey 2016 data,
adopts the Alkire-Foster multidimensional poverty index (MPI)
approach and addresses numerous shortcomings of the original
Statistics South Africa method ...