South Africa and Health
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- Tuberculosis control has failed in South Africa – time to reappraise strategy
- R. Woods / South African Medical Journal, 2011
- This article looks at the reasons for the failure of South Africa’s current tuberculosis (TB) control programme by looking at the major drivers of the TB epidemic. The authors also identify new control strategies that they argue...
- Carework and caring: A path to gender equitable practices among men in South Africa?
- R. Morrell / International Journal for Equity in Health, 2011
- The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between men who engage in carework and commitment to gender equity. The context of the study was that gender inequitable masculinities create vulnerability for men and women to...
- How Universal is Access to Reproductive Health?: A Review of the Evidence
- United Nations Population Fund, 2010
- This report looks at the progress of achieving MDG targets relating to reproductive health and the emphasis of this report is on identifying areas where progress has been made and where it has lagged for three indicators of access to ...
- Sputum induction in primary health care facilities: increasing diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in children
- H.A. Moore; P. Apolles; H. J. Zar / Ingenta, 2011
- Sputum induction has increasingly enabled microbiological confirmation of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in hospitalised children, but it has not been evaluated in a community setting. This paper aims to investigate the yield, feasibili...
- An assessment of mental health policy in Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia
- E. Faydi / Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011
- Approximately half of the countries in the African Region had a mental health policy by 2005, but little is known about quality of mental health policies in Africa and globally. This paper reports the results of an assessment of the m...
- Lessons from case studies of integrating mental health into primary health care in South Africa and Uganda
- I. Petersen / International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2011
- While decentralised and integrated primary mental healthcare forms the core of mental health policies in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), implementation remains a challenge. The aim of this study was to understand how th...
- National ICT policies in member countries of the IST-Africa Initiative
- IST-Africa Initiative, 2012
- This guide looks at the current status of National ICT policies in each of the current IST-Africa Initiative partner countries. It identifies what has been achieved to date and provides insight into what implementation challenge...
- A framework for determining how best to allocate scarce health care resources in South Africa
- S.M. Cleary; G.H. Mooney; D.E. McIntyre / Health Policy and Planning, 2011
- Trying to determine how best to allocate resources in health care is especially difficult when resources are severely constrained, as is the case in all developing countries. This is particularly true in South Africa currently where t...
- South African women who experience intimate partner violence have increased incidence of HIV infection
- R.K. Jewkes; K. Dunkle; M. Nduna / The Lancet, 2010
- Research linking gender inequity and gender-based violence to HIV is limited. This paper assess whether intimate partner violence (IPV) and relationship power inequity increase risk of incident HIV infection in South African women. ...
- Perceptions of service users and providers of traditional practitioners and primary health care staff on collaboration in mental health care
- Campbell-Hall Victoria; Peterson I.; Bhana A / Transcultural Psychiatry, 2010
- This paper posits that the majority of the black African population in South Africa utilise both traditional and public sector Western systems of healing for mental health care. As such, the authors argue that there is a need to devel...
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