• Exploring the perception of and attitude towards preconception care service provision and utilisation in a South Western Nigerian community – a qualitative study 

  Ojifinni, Oludoyinmola O.; Munyewende, Pascalia O.; Ibisomi, Latifat (School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2021-02)

  Background: Hospital-based, quantitative studies in Nigeria show low levels of knowledge and use of preconception care (PCC) services. This study explored the perception of and attitude towards PCC in a southwestern Nigerian ...
• Variation by Geographic Scale in the Migration-Environment Association: Evidence from Rural South Africa 

  Hunter, L.M.; Leyk, S.; Maclaurin, G.J.; Nawrotzki, R.; Twine, W.; Erasmus, B.F.N.; Collinson, M. (Federal Institute for Population Research, 2017)

  Scholarly understanding of human migration’s environmental dimensions has greatly advanced in the past several years, motivated in large part by public and policy dialogue around “climate migrants”. The research presented ...
• Social accountability and nursing education in South Africa 

  Armstrong, S.J; Rispel, L.C (2015)

  BACKGROUND: There is global emphasis on transforming health workforce education in support of universal health coverage. OBJECTIVE: This paper uses a social accountability framework, specifically the World Health ...
• Predictors of health care use by adults 50 years and over in a rural South African setting 

  Ameh, S; Kahn, K; Tollman, S.M; et al (2014)

  BACKGROUND: South Africa's epidemiological transition is characterised by an increasing burden of chronic communicable and non-communicable diseases. However, little is known about predictors of health care use (HCU) for ...
• Barriers to accessing health care in Nigeria: implications for child survival 

  Adedini, S A; Odimegwu, C; Bamiwuye, S A; et al (2014)

  Background: Existing studies indicate that about one in every six children dies before age five in Nigeria. While evidence suggests that improved access to adequate health care holds great potential for improved child ...
• 'Practice what you preach': Nurses' perspectives on the Code of Ethics and Service Pledge in five South African hospitals. 

  White, J; Phakoe, M; Rispel, L.C (2015)

  BACKGROUND: A recent focus of the global discourse on the health workforce has been on its quality, including the existence of codes of ethics. In South Africa, the importance of ethics and value systems in nursing was ...
• Cost and impact of scaling up interventions to save lives of mothers and children: taking South Africa closer to MDGs 4 and 5 

  Chola, M; Pillay, Y; Barron, P; et al (2015)

  BACKGROUND:South Africa has made substantial progress on child and maternal mortality, yet many avoidable deaths of mothers and children still occur. This analysis identifies priority interventions to be scaled up nationally ...
• Factors influencing agency nursing and moonlighting among nurses in South Africa 

  Rispel, L.C; Blaauw, D; Chirwa, T; et al (2014)

  BACKGROUND: In South Africa, nurses are the largest category of the health care providers. Their optimal performance is critical for the successful implementation of impending health sector reforms. OBJECTIVE: This paper ...
• Predictors of adherence to screening guidelines for chronic diseases of lifestyle, cancers, and HIV in a health-insured population in South Africa 

  Adonis, L; Basu, D; Luiz, J; et al (2014)

  BACKGROUND: Adherence to screening guidelines has been widely accepted to reduce morbidity, mortality, and cost outcomes. The aim of this study was to identify predictors of adherence to screening guidelines for chronic ...
• Risk factors for unplanned and unwanted teenage pregnancies occurring over two years of follow-up among a cohort of young South African women 

  Christofides, N.J; Jewkes, R.K; Dunkle, K.L; et al (2014)

  BACKGROUND: Although teenage pregnancies in South Africa have declined, the short and longer term health and social consequences are a potential public health concern. This longitudinal study aimed to describe the range ...
• Nutrition labelling: a review of research on consumer and industry response in the global South 

  Mandle, J; Tugendhaft, A; Michalow, J; et al (2015)

  BACKGROUND: To identify peer-reviewed research on consumers' usage and attitudes towards the nutrition label and the food industry's response to labelling regulations outside Europe, North America, and Australia and to ...
• Essential evidence for guiding health system priorities and policies: anticipating epidemiological transition in Africa 

  Byass, P; De Savigny, D; Lopez, A.D; et al (2014)

  BACKGROUND: Despite indications that infection-related mortality in sub-Saharan Africa may be decreasing and the burden of non-communicable diseases increasing, the overwhelming reality is that health information systems ...
• Does moonlighting influence South African nurses' intention to leave their primary jobs? 

  Rispel, L; Chirwa, T; Blaauw, D; et al (2014)

  BACKGROUND: Staff retention and turnover have risen in prominence in the global discourse on the health workforce. Moonlighting, having a second job in addition to a primary job, has not featured in debates on turnover. ...
• Perspectives on healthcare, chronic non-communicable disease, and healthworlds in an urban and rural setting 

  Ibanez-Gonzalez, Daniel Lopes (2014)

  BACKGROUND: Amidst diverging discourses describing chronic non-communicable disease (NCD) and healthcare access, the hermeneutical tradition within sociology, particularly as exemplified in the work of Jurgen Habermas, ...
• Closing the mental health treatment gap in South Africa: a review of costs and cost-effectiveness 

  Jack, H; Wagner, R G.; Petersen I; et al. (2014)

  Background: Nearly one in three South Africans will suffer from a mental disorder in his or her lifetime, a higher prevalence than many low- and middle-income countries. Understanding the economic costs and consequences ...
• Contestations and complexities of nurses' participation in policy-making in South Africa 

  Ditlopo, P; Blaauw, D; Penn-Kekana, L; et al. (2014)

  Background: There has been increased emphasis globally on nurses’ involvement in health policy and systems development. However, there has been limited scholarly attention on nurses’ participation in policy-making in South ...
• Migration and the epidemiological transition: insights from the Agincourt sub-district of northeast South Africa 

  Collinson, M.A; White, M.J; Bocquier, P (2014)

  BACKGROUND: Migration and urbanization are central to sustainable development and health, but data on temporal trends in defined populations are scarce. Healthy men and women migrate because opportunities for employment ...
• Undertaking cause-specific mortality measurement in an unregistered population: an example from Tigray Region, Ethiopia 

  Godefay, H; Abrha, A; Kinsman, J; et al (2014)

  Background: The lack of adequate documentation of deaths, and particularly their cause, is often noted in African and Asian settings, but practical solutions for addressing the problem are not always clear. Verbal autopsy ...
• Focus on 14 sewage treatment plants in the Mpumalanga Province, South Africa in order to gauge the efficiency of wastewater treatment 

  Samie, A; Obi, C L; Ingumbor, J A; et al (2009-07)

  In order to identify the treatment methods used in different sewage treatment plants (STPs) in the Mpumalanga Province and to determine the efficiency of wastewater treatment by these plants, municipal STPs were surveyed, ...
• Impact of AIDS care and level of burnout among nurses in selected hospitals in Limpopo Province, South Africa 

  Ingumbor, J O; Davhana-Maselesele, M (2013)

  South Africa has one of the worst AIDS epidemics in the world and nurses bear the brunt of caring for people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA). This situation exacerbates the existing challenge of nursing staff shortage ...

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