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Challenges experienced while providing home based care: A community organisation's experience
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)Introduction: Methods: Results: Conclusion: Keywords: The large and ever-growing number of people being infected with HIV/AIDS, led to health professionals being unable to cope with these increasing numbers. To combat ... -
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 ... -
COVID-19 food security
(José Frantz, 2021)It’s not as if South Africa started 2020 on the right foot. The latest available numbers suggest that about 11% of the country’s population (or around 6.5-million people) suffer from hunger every year. We should not ... -
Decent employment and the future of agriculture. How dominant narratives prevent addressing structural issues
(Frontiers Media, 2022)Decent employment in agriculture is part of the general narrative about working conditions. It is an unquestionable objective but its position high in the international agenda contributes to sideline major structural ... -
Dietary diversity and its association with nutritional status, cardiometabolic risk factors and food choices of adults at risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus in Cape Town, South Africa
(MDPI, 2022)In South Africa, the nutrition transition has led to unhealthy diets lacking variety, contributing to the rise in overweight, obesity and diet-related noncommunicable diseases. Using baseline screening data of the South ... -
Dietary fat intake and red blood cell fatty acid composition of children and women from three different geographical areas in South Africa
(Elsevier, 2016)Dietary fat intake, particularly the type of fat, is reflected in the red blood cell (RBC) fatty acid (FA) profile and is vital in growth, development and health maintenance. The FA profile (%wt/wt) of RBC membrane ... -
Dietary patterns and colorectal cancer risk in Zimbabwe: A population based case-control study
(Elsevier, 2018)BACKGROUND: The rising incidence of colorectal cancer in sub-Saharan Africa may be partly caused by changing dietary patterns. We sought to establish the association between dietary patterns and colorectal cancer in ... -
Effect of different front-of-package food labels on identification of unhealthy products and intention to purchase the products– A randomised controlled trial in South Africa
(Elsevier, 2022)This study aimed to evaluate the effect of different labels on participants identifying products high in nutrients of concern; identifying unhealthy products, and intention to purchase unhealthy products. This blinded ... -
Effect of pomegranate (Punica granatum L) peel powder meal dietary supplementation on antioxidant status and quality of breast meat in broilers
(Elsevier, 2020)This study examined the antioxidant status and quality of breast meat in broiler birds fed diets supplemented with pomegranate peel powder meal (PPPM). During the 35-d feeding trial, broiler birds were fed six experimental ... -
Ethical misconduct by registered physiotherapists in South Africa (2007– 2013): A mixed methods approach
(PubMed, 2015)Background: The role of ethics in a medical context is to protect the interests of patients. Thus, it is critically important to understand the guilty verdicts related to professional standard breaches and ethics misconduct ... -
Exploring the affordances of e-learning technologies for dietetics education and training
(South African Medical Association, 2019)Lecturers in health science education programmes wear many hats. Their undergraduate training prepares them to deliver healthcare services as clinicians. They may enter academia as clinical educators and then advance to ... -
Feature Reduction for the Classification of Bruise Damage to Apple Fruit Using a Contactless FT-NIR Spectroscopy with Machine Learning
(MDPI, 202)Spectroscopy data are useful for modelling biological systems such as predicting quality parameters of horticultural products. However, using the wide spectrum of wavelengths is not practical in a production setting. Such ... -
Food insecurity and dietary deprivation: Migrant households in Nairobi, Kenya
(MDPI, 2023)The current study focuses on food consumption and dietary diversity among internal migrant households in Kenya using data from a city-wide household survey of Nairobi conducted in 2018. The paper examined whether migrant ... -
The hidden curriculum and integrating cure- and care-based approaches to medicine
(Springer Nature, 2020)Although current literature about the “cure versus care” issue tends to promote a patient-centered approach, the disease-centered approach remains the prevailing model in practice. The perceived dichotomy between the two ... -
Household consumption of orange-fleshed sweet potato and its associated factors in Chipata District, Eastern Province Zambia
(SAGE Publications, 2017)BACKGROUND: The Integrating Orange Project promotes production and consumption of orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) to address vitamin A deficiency among rural populations of Zambia since 2011. OBJECTIVE: This study ... -
Impact of body composition analysis on male sexual function : A metabolic age study
(Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023-01)Metabolic Age (MetAge) and body composition analysis may reflect an individual’s metabolic status, which is believed to influence male sexual and gonadal functions. Although erectile dysfunction (ED) and hypogonadism are ... -
The importance of facilitating goal‑concordant care (GCC) in a pandemic: the MD Anderson Experience with hospitalized COVID‑19‑positive patients
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023)Purpose: Provider-patient communication (PPC) about goals of care (GOC) facilitates goal-concordant care (GCC) delivery. Hospital resource limitations imposed during the pandemic made it vital to deliver GCC to a patient ... -
The influence of second-hand cigarette smoke exposure during childhood and active cigarette smoking on Crohn's Disease phenotype defined by the montreal classification scheme in a Western Cape Population, South Africa
(PLoS ONE, 2015-09)Smoking may worsen the disease outcomes in patients with Crohn’s disease (CD), however the effect of exposure to second-hand cigarette smoke during childhood is unclear. In South Africa, no such literature exists. The aim ... -
The informal food sector and cohabitation with supermarkets in Windhoek, Namibia
(Spinger, 2019)Much of the literature on urban food systems has focused on supermarket expansion and their ability to reach urban consumers. However, the current pace of urbanisation and rising urban poverty has been accompanied by a ... -
Intersectoral (in)activity: Towards an understanding of public sector department links between water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and childhood undernutrition in South Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2020)Associations between different forms of malnutrition and environmental conditions, including water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), contribute to poor child health, nutritional status and physical growth. The primary ...