The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic caused significant morbidity and mortality in Africa, in addition to other socio-economic consequences. Across the continent, Schools of Public Health (SPHs) played several roles in supporting national, regional, and global response to the pandemic. Followin...
INTRODUCTION: The primary care workforce in the public sector of Uganda is under the district health system. The doctors in this workforce provide leadership and frontline promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative, and palliative care. Their number
PRETORIA (South Africa)PRIVATE schoolsSPOKEN EnglishPUBLIC schoolsORAL communicationLANGUAGE abilityThis study explored the various aspects of Grade 12 English as a first additional language (EFAL) learners' oral proficiency and compared the different aspects of poor oral achievement in selected p...
A pit latrine is the most basic form of improved sanitation which is currently used by a number of people around the globe. In spite of the wide spread use, known successes and advantages associated with pit latrines, they have received little attention
Firstly, the sample size calculation ensured proportional representation of the population size in each province. Within each province, the primary sampling unit was selected on probability proportional to the population in each sub-district. From each province the first sub-district was randomly ...
Achieving secondary education (or primary for Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Tanzania) by either the woman or her partner was associated with decreased IPV in almost two thirds of the sites (3 significant for each partner), when compared to situations where neither the woman nor her partner completed ...
We divided the entire city of Pretoria—which includes a central business district, other commercial areas, and residential areas such as a number of formal and informal townships and settlements—into 14 mutually exclusive “zones.” We delineated the zones according to natural boundaries based on...
Another aim is to test the efficacy of the YWHC for reducing AOD use, victimisation, and sexual risk behaviour (primary outcomes) and improving access to effective treatment and support services through linkages to care (substance abuse rehabilitation, HIV, sexually transmitted infections [STIs], ...
There has been an increasing interest in urban agriculture (UA) practice and research in recent years. Scholars have already reported numerous beneficial and potential adverse impacts of UA on health-related outcomes. This scoping review aims to explore
It is agreed that the concept of tropical medicine started during the nineteenth century in British, French, and German laboratories and schools of medicine whose primary motive was to care for the health of the army and the European administration living in tropical climates, as is the case of...