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Access to healthcare for people with disabilities in South Africa: Bad at any time, worse during COVID-19?
(AOSIS, 2021)
People with disabilities, especially those living in low- and middle-income countries,
experience significant challenges in accessing healthcare services and support. At times of
disasters and emergencies, people with ...
Leisure pursuits in South Africa as observed during the COVID-19 pandemic
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
This paper aims to present the leisure pursuits in South Africa as observed during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the world was hit by the pandemic as early as January 2020, South Africa recorded its first case on 5 March ...
Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security
(Springer Nature, 2020)
COVID-19 undermines food security both directly, by disrupting food systems, and indirectly, through the impacts of lockdowns on household incomes and physical access to food. COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic could ...
The unbearable loneliness of COVID-19: COVID-19-related correlates of loneliness in South Africa in young adults
(Elsevier, 2021)
This is the first study to examine the association between COVID-19 related variables and loneliness among young adults in South Africa during COVID-19. Participants (N=337) were university students who completed the UCLA ...
COVID-19: Can this crisis be transformative for global health?
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
The UN has described the health, social and economic consequences of
Covid-19 as a global crisis unlike any other encountered in its history.
Although a pandemic of this nature was not unforeseeable, its arrival
seems ...
COVID-19, disability and the context of healthcare triage in South Africa: Notes in a time of pandemic
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)
During disasters, when resources and care are scarce, healthcare workers are required to make decisions and prioritise which patients receive life-saving resources over others. To assist healthcare workers in standardising ...
Covid-19 daily realities for families: A South African sample
(MPDI, 2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic affected families globally. Empirical research has been explored to
understand the impact of COVID-19 on families across countries, however, there are limited findings
of how COVID-19 has affected ...
COVID-19, measles, and yellow fever: The need to reinforce vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(Elsevier, 2022-01)
The immunization programs have been jeopardized all over the world due to the stay-at-home constraints
imposed, to mitigate the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This has directly or indirectly placed the global health
care ...
“I teach, therefore i am”: The serial relationship between perceived vulnerability to disease, fear of Covid-19, teacher identification and teacher satisfaction
(MPDI, 2021)
In early 2020, school closures were implemented globally to curb the spread of the COVID19 pandemic. In South Africa, emergency remote teaching was not sustainable, and conventional
teaching resumed in the context of the ...
Relevant HRH leadership during public health emergencies
(2022)
Background: Inadequate leadership capacity compounds the world’s workforce lack of preparedness for outbreaks
of all sizes, as illustrated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Traditional human resources for health (HRH) leadership ...