Introduction: South Africa has the highest HIV/AIDS incidence in the world. Health is one of the priority areas of the government of South Africa, owing to high disease burden and healthcare inequality. Although substantial improvements to healthcare services have been achieved since the fall of ...
Introduction: South Africa has the highest HIV/AIDS incidence in the world. Health is one of the priority areas of the government of South Africa, owing to high disease burden and healthcare inequality. Although substantial improvements to healthcare services have been achieved since the fall of ...
The increase in sexual intercourse and decrease in usage of contraception observed in our study between the pre- and post-COVID-19 periods suggests a potential threat to sexual health among South Korean adolescents. This trend emphasizes the ongoing necessity of raising awareness about adolescent sexu...
HealthPolicySouth AfricaThe position that states take in the international sphere on health andintellectual property (IP) policy matters is influenced by their nationalexperiences and positions. Similarly, the national arena is influenced by globalhealth diplomacy. This paper seeks to examine how this ...
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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has hundreds of scientists, researchers, curators and collection managers who connect people everywhere to life’s unfolding story. Here is a sampling of the unique voices that make up the chorus of i
Owing to the heterogeneous mix of conditions included in the other musculoskeletal disorders category, discussing the implications for health policy and service provision is difficult. The large YLD burden, despite all uncertainty, suggests a large demand for therapeutic and rehabilitative services; this ...
«A̴» which initially were unfortunately called “townships” until someone pointed out Apartheid South Africa’s use of the same term to delineate non-white homelands «B̴» the haste of the estate building program contributed to this ...
Rising SDI was associated with consistently higher HALE and a somewhat smaller proportion of life spent with functional health loss; however, rising SDI was related to increases in total disability. Many countries and territories in central America and eastern sub-Saharan Africa had increasingly lower...
This shift in disease burden owing to the demographic and epidemiological transitions has important implications on health policy: ensuring access to universal health coverage and protection against catastrophic health expenditure directly related to the cancer treatment, but also against the long-term ...