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Searching with a thematic focus on Children and young people, Health, Health systems

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  How are young people in South Africa using mobile phones to bridge healthcare gaps?

  University of Durham, 2015

  Young people account for 30% of the population in South Africa, with just under 15 million young people aged 10 – 24 years.
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  Children’s mobility in Ghana: An overview of methods and findings from the Ghana research study

  Society, Biology and Human Affairs, 2011

  This paper is part of a collection forming A Special Issue, which covers selected themes from a larger project on child mobility in Ghana, Malawi and South Africa. The themes are those which individual members of the Ghana research team identified as of particular interest and on which they have reflected, drawing on material collected and analysed by the team as a whole.
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  Reframing undernutrition: faecally - transmitted infections and the 5 As

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

  The dominant nutrition discourse concerns access to adequate food and its quality. It now includes food security, food rights and justice, governance and agriculture. Despite many initiatives to assure food access, and growing economies, high levels of undernutrition persist in much of Asia.
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  Evaluation of Season Two of the television drama series, Intersexions

  2015

  Intersexions I was a multi-award winning series, receiving eleven South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTA), the Screen Excellence Award for best drama, the AfricommNet award for best mass media and the internationally acclaimed Peabody Award.
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  Does parental education affect the impact of provision of health care on health status of children? Evidence from India

  Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014

  Provision of health care facilities does not necessarily imply that individuals are making use of those facilities. The objective of the study is to analyse the impact of provision of health care facilities on child health status taking into account the utilistion of available facilities.
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  A review of TB in children and adolescents in South Africa 2008–2012

  Health Systems Trust, South Africa, 2013

  Tuberculosis (TB) has increasingly been recognised as a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children in high TB-burden settings.
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  Cervical cancer in South Africa: Challenges and opportunities

  South African Health Review / Health Systems Trust, 2013

  After breast, colorectal and lung cancer, cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer affecting women worldwide. The burden of cervical cancer is higher in low- to middle-income countries, due to poor access to screening and treatment services, competition with other health priorities, limited human and financial resources, and overburdened health systems. 
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  Women’s literacy and the links between maternal health, reproductive health and daughter education

  Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2010

  Development agencies have found two predictable indicators for longevity among women in developing countries: accessible clean water and literacy skills. Of the 1 billion illiterate people in the world, two thirds of them are women. Literate women average 2 children per family while illiterate women give birth to 6–8 children. The Helpdesk report summarises that:
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  How healthy are the children of Indian Sundarbans?

  Future Health Systems research consortium, 2013

  This report highlights the vulnerability of children in the Indian Sundarbans to health shocks. This is due to under-nutrition and the high prevalence of common communicable diseases. It focuses Patharpratima, as a representative block of the Sundarbans.
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  Epidemiological studies of the non-specific effects of vaccines: II – methodological issues in the design and analysis of cohort studies

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

  Much of the controversy surrounding the impact of routine immunizations on childhood survival, particularly the putative increased mortality after DTP immunization, has focused on methodological issues.

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