Browsing by Title
Now showing items 1169-1188 of 8878
-
Child malnutrition mortality at St Barnabas Hospital is high - is it due to practices and attitudes of staff?: a study in a rural district hospital
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)The case fatality rate for malnutrition at St Barnabas Hospital over the past years has been around 38%. The rates in other district hospitals in the Eastern Cape province were found to be in excess of 30%. In June 2000, ... -
Child poverty in South Africa: contributions of a participatory child poverty assessment project to improving understandings and measurement
(The University of the Western Cape, 2018)Involving children in studies about complex social issues like poverty is not common practice. While child poverty is a subjective matter, most studies rely on adult opinions to conceptualize and measure it. This study ... -
Child Protection Responses and Transformative Social Protection in Kenya and South Africa: Can social grants improve the wellbeing of children affected by violence and neglect?
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)This research critically explores how children from low income neighbourhoods in Kenya and South Africa experience formal child protection interventions couched within a child rights framework in response to violence and ... -
Child sex tourism in South Africa: A children's rights perspective
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)In the words of Najat Maall M'jid, former United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography: 'As the world reflects on the universal development goals for the ... -
Child Sexual Abuse: An Epidemiological Study At The Child and Family Unit - Lentegeur Psychiatric Hospital
(University of the Western Cape, 1999)Across international and local epidemiological studies of child sexual abuse, two aspects of the literature have remained empirically consistent. Many more girls are sexually abused than boys and most perpetrators are male. ... -
Child soldiers and international law in the Darfur Region of Sudan: does conflict transformation offer a solution?
(University of the Western Cape, 2008) -
The child's voice in the Hague Convention: Does ascertaining the child's view realise the best interests of the child in legal and related proceedings in terms of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)No abstract available. -
Child-hood experiences of foster care in the Overberg region of the Western Cape Province. An adult life history perspective
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)The social welfare policy context changed dramatically from apartheid to post-apartheid in the South African transition to democracy. The new social developmental approach towards professional social work service delivery ... -
Childhoods dis-ordered: Non-realist narrative modes in selected post-2000 West African war novels
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)This study explores how selected West African war novels employ non-realist narrative modes to portray disruptions in the child’s development into adulthood. The novels considered are Chris Abani’s Song for Night (2007), ... -
Children at both ends of the gun: towards a comprehensive legal approach to the problem of child soldiers in Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)While the participation of children in armed conflict has been evident for some time, internal community mobilization on the issue is fairly recent. In 1993, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted resolution ... -
Children's construction of the 'self' within two urban impoverished communities in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)This study aimed to explore how children construct and assign meaning to the 'self' within two urban impoverished communities in the Western Cape, South Africa. Within this process the study aimed to explore how these ... -
Children's experiences and views on domestic violence
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)In a country in which human rights feature prominently in our discourse about who we are, as well as in the South African constitutional and legal framework, so many wrongs continue to be perpetrated on women and children. ... -
Children's health service rights and the issue of consent
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)Although the concept of human rights is very much accepted as part of human existence throughout the world today, there is still much controversy surrounding the idea of rights for children. The Constitution, however, not ... -
Children's perceptions of "screen" violence and the effects on their well-being
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)Working from a child participatory perspective, the study aimed to explore children's perceptions and experiences of screen violence. Within this process there is an attempt to understand how children assign meaning to ... -
Children's right to consent to medical treatment and a consideration of the changes effected in the Children's Bill B70 D of 2003
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)Children's rights to consent to medical treatment and the balancing of parental rights have become the focus of much debate in South Africa over the last few decades. Issues concerning the age at which children can consent ... -
Children’s experiences and perceptions of family and family resilience processes in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)The family is the primary and most critical support and developmental system for children however, family challenges often prevent positive support and developmental assistance. Some families are able to manage their ... -
Children’s perceptions of the causation and prevention of childhood burn injuries
(UWC, 2011)South Africa has a high rate of children’s burn injuries with 1300 deaths annually. These burn injuries are considered preventable and South African research has identified this as a priority concern. South African childhood ... -
Children’s perceptions of the natural environment: creating child and environmentally friendly cities
(2009)A child friendly city (CFC) is the embodiment of the rights of the child manifested in the policies, programs, and laws of a city. A critical aspect in the creation of a CFC is the consideration of the natural environment ...