It is encouraging that students are generally aware of the reality of health care in South Africa and of the fact that more change needs to take place. However, it may be that many students who have a limited understanding of the impact that apartheid had on health care provision in South...
Objective — To obtain feedback from primary care nurses who attended two study days in child and adolescent mental health. The study days aimed to equip nurses with basic assessment and intervention skills for the most common problems in child and adolescent psychiatric nursing.Herna...
Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) have an appreciable impact on patients’ health. Little is known however about ADR reporting in ambulatory care environments especially in low- and middle-income countries. Consequently, our aim was to determine knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) among health care...
Community oriented primary care in Tshwane District, South Africa: Assessing the first phase of implementation Re-engineering primary health care is a cornerstone of the health sector reform initiated nationally in South Africa in 2009. Using the concept of ward bas... HF Kinkel,T Marcus,S Memon...
A strong primary turnout in a state where the majority of Democratic voters are Black would calm fears about his electability among the party. Before an audience of hundreds of mostly Black women church leaders, Harris said the audience’s support had lifted Biden to the White...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — While Democrats in Washington charge ahead with an impeachment inquiry, their party's candidates for governor in three Southern states are doing their best to steer the conversation away from Republican President Donald Trump and t
We investigated the use of mobile phones to fill healthcare gaps and augment services. Our research question was as follows: How are mobile phones being currently used from the bottom-up by patients and health workers to enhance the delivery of primary healthcare within rural South Africa? Our...
South East Asia - Optimising Reproductive and Child Health in Developing Countries (SEA-ORCHID) was a five-year project that aimed to determine whether a multifaceted intervention designed to strengthen the capacity for research synthesis, evidence-based care and knowledge implementation improved clinical...
transients and migrants;primary healthcare;perceived discrimination;health services 1. Introduction International migration is defined as the movement of people across a country’s borders to settle temporarily or permanently in another country [1]. According to the United Nations (UN), the total numbe...
In this empirical article, we argue that while emergency remote teaching (ERT) may have achieved its goal of saving the academic years during the COVID-19 pandemic, it also constructed unintended pedagogical consequences that were possibly overlooked at the time of advocating for it. We also cont...