Research Publications: Recent submissions
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Global core indicators for measuring WHO’s paediatric quality‑of‑care standards in health facilities: Development and expert consensus
(BMC, 2022)There are currently no global recommendations on a parsimonious and robust set of indicators that can be measured routinely or periodically to monitor quality of hospital care for children and young adolescents. We describe ... -
Determinants of dietary patterns in school going adolescents in Urban Zambia
(Frontiers Media, 2022)Understanding dietary patterns in a population is critical for decision making. This study aimed to identify the prevailing dietary patterns and their associated individual and school environment factors among school going ... -
Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)Over the past three decades, the increase in funding for priority public health issues largely affecting low/middle-income countries (LMICs) has led to the growth in international research involving researchers or ... -
Role of religious beliefs in adherence to antiretroviral therapy in the Cape Town metropole: A study protocol
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)There are presently over four million people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the South African national antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme. However, some ART programmes are battling poor ART adherence emanating from ... -
Defining, conceptualising and operationalising community empowerment: A scoping review protocol
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)Community empowerment is a core concept in health promotion theory and practice. Several authors have defined and conceptualised the term differently. However, we did not find any synthesis of the various definitions ... -
Barriers and facilitating factors to HIV treatment among men in a high-HIV burdened district in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A qualitative study
(SAGE Publications, 2022)Despite enormous increases in the proportion of people living with HIV accessing treatment in sub-Saharan Africa, major gender disparities persist, with men experiencing lower rates of testing, linkage to treatment, and ... -
Inequity in the distribution of non-communicable disease multimorbidity in adults in South Africa: An analysis of prevalence and patterns
(Frontiers Media, 2022)The present study examined the prevalence and patterns of noncommunicable disease multimorbidity by wealth quintile among adults in South Africa. The South African National Income Dynamics Study Wave 5 was conducted ... -
A cross-cultural adaptation and validation of a scale to assess illness identity in adults living with a chronic illness in South Africa: A case of HIV
(BMC, 2022)The chronic illness trajectory and its outcomes are well explained by the concept of illness identity; the extent to which ill individuals have integrated their diagnosed chronic illness into their identity or sense of ... -
What is Covid-19 teaching us about community health systems? A reflection from a rapid community-led mutual aid response in Cape Town, South Africa
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2022)The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed the wide gaps in South Africa’s formal social safety net, with the country’s high levels of inequality, unemployment and poor public infrastructure combining ... -
“Not just a journal club – it’s where the magic happens”: Knowledge mobilization through co-production for health system development in the Western Cape province, South Africa
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2022)The field of Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) views researchers as active participants in processes of knowledge mobilization, learning and action. Yet few studies examine how such processes are institutionalized ... -
Digital storytelling for policy impact: Perspectives from co-producing knowledge for food system governance in South Africa
(Bristol University Press, 2022)Post-positivist critics of the linear-rational understanding of the role of knowledge in decision making have long argued the need for the construction of socially robust knowledge to illuminate policy problems from a ... -
Prevalence of obesity and associated risk factors among children and adolescents in the Eastern Cape Province
(MDPI, 2022)Obesity is a global public health concern that begins in childhood and is on the rise among people aged 18 and up, with substantial health consequences that offer socioeconomic challenges at all levels, from households ... -
Comparison of the ability of anthropometric indices to predict the risk of diabetes mellitus in South African males: Sanhanes-1
(MDPI, 2022)This study aimed to assess the sensitivity of body mass index (BMI) to predict the risk of diabetes mellitus (DM) and whether waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip (WHR) and waist-toheight (WHtR) ratios are better ... -
Diet therapy and public health
(MDPI, 2022)A major threat to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and Universal Health Coverage continues to be malnutrition [1,2]. The term “malnutrition” encompasses both under- and over-nutrition, both of which ... -
Two-year retention in care for adolescents on antiretroviral therapy in Ehlanzeni district, South Africa: a baseline cohort analysis
(Taylor ad Francis, 2022)Adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) struggle to remain engaged in HIV-related care and adhere to antiretroviral treatment (ART) due to a myriad of physical, psychological and cognitivedevelopmental challenges. We report ... -
Strengthening health system’s capacity for pre-exposure prophylaxis for adolescent girls and young women and adolescent boys and young men in South Africa (SHeS’Cap–PrEP): Protocol for a mixed methods study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(Public Library of Science, 2022)Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an effective prevention intervention that can be used to control HIV incidence especially among people who are at increased risk for HIV such as adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) ... -
Perceived effect of warning label on parental food purchasing and drivers of food selection among South African parents–An exploratory study
(Frontiers Media, 2022)Household food purchasing decision is a complex process influenced by factors such as marketing, cost, children food preference and parental choices. Most food products targeted toward children are unhealthy and ... -
Anthropometric indices and cut-off points for screening of metabolic syndrome among South African taxi drivers
(Frontiers Media, 2022)Detecting the early onset of metabolic syndrome (MetS) allows for quick intervention which may slow progression to a variety of health consequences, hence, determining the best measurement to detect MetS is essential. ... -
Maternity protection for female non‑standard workers in South Africa: The case of domestic workers
(BMC, 2022)Many women work in positions of non-standard employment, with limited legal and social protec‑ tion. Access to comprehensive maternity protection for all working women could ensure that all women and children can access ... -
A systematic method for comparing multimorbidity in national surveys
(BMC, 2022)Due to gaps in the literature, we developed a systematic method to assess multimorbidity using national surveys. The objectives of this study were thus to identify methods used to defne and measure multimorbidity, to create ...