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Scaling up health promotion interventions in the era of HIV/AIDS: Challenges for a rights based approach
(Oxford University Press, 2005)A sustained scaled up response to global public health challenges such as HIV/AIDS will require a functioning and efficient health system, based on the foundation of strong primary healthcare. Whilst this is necessary, ... -
Scaling up improved inpatient treatment of evere Malnutrition: Key Factors and Experiences From South Africa, Bolivia, Malawi, and Ghana"
(Global health, 2022)Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) can have high mortality, especially in very ill children treated in the hospital. Many medical and nursing schools do not adequately, if at all, teach how to manage children with SAM. There ... -
Scaling up integration: Development and results of a participatory assessment of HIV/TB services, South Africa
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2010)BACKGROUND: In South Africa the need to integrate HIV, TB and STI programmes has been recognised at a policy and organisation level; the challenge is now one of translating policies into relevant actions and monitoring ... -
School food environment in urban Zambia: A qualitative analysis of drivers of adolescent food choices and their policy implications
(MDPI, 2022)Identifying context specific points for reforming policy to promote healthier food environments and consumer behavior in critical life stages like adolescence is crucial in addressing the double burden of malnutrition. ... -
School return post-childbirth: barriers for Seychellois teenage mothers
(vulnerable children and youth studies, 2020)Teenage childbearing interferes with girls’ educational attainment in many settings, as it frequently marks the end of their basic education. In Seychelles despite numerous laws and policies to facilitate and support teenage ... -
The school, a viable educational site for interdisciplinary health promotion
(Taylor & Francis, 2004)An interdisciplinary health promotion module, using the community-based teaching approach, is offered by the University of the Western Cape (UWC). Schools in Delft, a poor socio-economic area with high unemployment, crime ... -
Scioeconomic status and risk of cardiovascular disease in 20 low-income, middle-income, and high-income countries: The Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiologic (PURE) study
(Elsevier, 2019)ocioeconomic status is associated with differences in risk factors for cardiovascular disease incidence and outcomes, including mortality. However, it is unclear whether the associations between cardiovascular disease and ... -
A scoping review of how exposure to urban violence impacts youth access to sexual, reproductive and trauma health care in LMICs
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022)Violence in the community can impact access to health care. This scoping review examines the impact of urban violence upon youth (aged 15–24) access to sexual and reproductive health and trauma care in Low and Middle Income ... -
A scoping review of the determinants of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in South Africa: an intersectional perspective
(Oxford University Press in association with The London School of Hygiene and Tropical M, 2021)Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) affects babies born to mothers who consume alcohol while pregnant. South Africa has the highest prevalence of FASD in the world. We review the social determinants underpinning FASD ... -
Scoping review protocol of service delivery-related interventions to improve maternal and newborn health in low-income and middle-income countries
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)Introduction This review will explore the characteristics of service delivery-related interventions to improve maternal and newborn health in low-income and middle-income countries, comparing three common framing approaches ... -
Service delivery models for enhancing linkage to and retention in HIV care services for adolescent girls and young women and adolescent boys and young men: A protocol for an overview of systematic reviews
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)n Recent advances in the HIV care continuum have shown that an individual diagnosed with HIV should be initiated on antiretroviral therapy as soon as possible regardless of the CD4 count levels and retained in HIV ... -
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 ...
