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The health related quality of life of refugees with disabilities in Zambia
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)This study attests to the fact that disability is an issue in conflict-affected populations, in particular refugees. Refugees with disabilities living in Mayukwayukwa refugee camp also have poor HRQOL similar to other ... -
Health risk behaviours among black adolescent females in the Strand: A mixed- method investigation
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)In South Africa there are currently 44.8 million people under the age of 20 years accounting for approximately 44% of the total South African population. Literature has indicated a number of lifestyle behaviors which account ... -
Health seeking behaviours in South Africa: a household perspective using the general households survey of 2007
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)This study is aimed at empirically examining health seeking behaviours in terms of illness response on household level at South Africa using 2007 General Household Survey and other relevant secondary sources. It provides ... -
Health status and functioning after traumatic spinal cord injury in South Africa: Comparison between a private and a public health care funded cohort
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Introduction: A spinal cord injury is the damage to the spinal cord that alters functional independence. Two different systems of care for the management of health conditions are available in private and public care in ... -
A health system perspective on factors influencing the use of health information for decision-making in a district health system
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)This research explores a poorly understood area of health systems: the nature of managerial decision-making in primary healthcare facilities, and the information that informs decision-making at this level. Located in the ... -
The health workers’ uptake of continuing professional education in selected Provincial Hospitals in Zimbabwe.
(University of Western Cape, 2019)Health institutions in Zimbabwe often cannot fulfill their health care mandate due to lack of specialist health workers in different fields. Despite the effort by the Ministry in providing CPE opportunities, there is ... -
Hearing loss amongst DR-TB patients that have received extended high-frequency pure tone audiometry monitoring (KUDUwave) at three DR-TB decentralized sites in Kwazulu Natal
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Ototoxic induced hearing loss is a common adverse event related to aminoglycosides used in Multi Drug Resistant -Tuberculosis treatment. Exposure to ototoxic drugs damages the structures of the inner ear. Symptomatic hearing ... -
Hearing loss amongst dr-tb patients that received extended high frequency pure tone audiometry monitoring (kuduwave) at three dr-tb decentralized sites in Kwazulu-Natal
(University of the Western Cape, 2017-10)Ototoxic induced hearing loss is a common adverse event related to aminoglycosides used in Multi Drug Resistant -Tuberculosis treatment. Exposure to ototoxic drugs damages the structures of the inner ear. Symptomatic ... -
Heat transmission along the surface of dental implant
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)Objectives: Temperature changes along an implant body have not been widely studied. The objectives of this in vitro study were (i) to establish if the temperature of the abutment influences the temperature of the implant ... -
Heavy and precious metal toxicity evaluation using a horseradish peroxidase immobilised biosensor
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)Environmental pollution is always the hottest topic in public conversation and one of the most concerned aspects of human health. The thin film sputtered microelectrode devices have been developed to improve the quality ... -
Hegemonic masculinity and intimate partner abuse: A qualitative psychological study.
(University of Western Cape, 2002)The year 1994 has important historical meaning for South African citizens. The 1994 election marked the beginning of a new nation and a time of freedom and democracy. As part of the change to a democratic society, the ... -
A Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenology of technology and vision: towards an existential – ontological understanding of social being
(2010)This thesis turns to Martin Heidegger to develop an interpretive framework to answer the question that has increasingly been thrust to the fore of 21st century society: what is the nature of the relationship between ... -
Heterocycle carbonyl pyrazolyl palladium(II) complexes :synthesis, ethylene oligomerisation and polymerisation catalysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)Reactions of furan, thiophene and alkyl carbonyl chlorides with Unsubstituted and substituted pyrazoles produced the desired pyrazolyl ligands, [R2pyrazole-CO-R/] (R= H, Me, tBu, Ph, R/ = furan, thiophene, Me or tBu) in ... -
Heteroscleromorph demosponge taxonomy and diversity of the Amathole region (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
(University of Western Cape, 2022)Sponges are functionally important and ubiquitous components of the global marine benthos. South Africa accounts for roughly 4% of the global marine sponge diversity, comprising 374 described species and seven varieties/forms, ... -
HI intensity mapping: Impact of primary beam effects
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping surveys with upcoming and future radio telescopes such as the MeerKAT, a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) MID telescope, have great potential for constraining ... -
An hi study of the nearby dwarf galaxy ic 4710
(University of Western Cape, 2021)This work aims to study the dark matter content of the nearby (7.38 Mpc) dwarf galaxy IC 4710 using the HI line observations from the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). We produce the rst interferometric maps of ... -
The hidden truth: A critical examination of Uganda’s transitional justice legal and policy reforms on truth-seeking
(University of Western Cape, 2021)In the past, analyses of Uganda’s Transitional Justice legal and policy measures on truth-seeking have been focussed on evaluating the efficacy of a truth commission. However, being cognizant of the limitations entailed ... -
A hierarchical modelling approach to identify factors associated with the uptake of HIV counselling and testing, maternal health services, and prevention of mother to child HIV transmission programme services among post-partum women in Ethiopia
(2013)The HIV/AIDS epidemic remains an unbeaten challenge that affects all parts of the global population. Since the identification of the epidemic in the early 1980s, nearly 58 million people have become infected with the ... -
High Accuracy Fitted Operator Methods for Solving Interior Layer Problems
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Fitted operator finite difference methods (FOFDMs) for singularly perturbed problems have been explored for the last three decades. The construction of these numerical schemes is based on introducing a fitting factor ...