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Measuring the underlying causes of long waiting times and the barriers to implementing recommendations to reduce waiting times, at a public sector primary health care facility in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Long waiting times before receiving a health service, give rise to long queues and congested health facilities, both of which are unnecessary and avoidable. Since patients in part judge the quality of the service by the ... -
Measuring the underlying causes of long waiting times and the barriers to implementing recommendations to reduce waiting times, at a public sector primary health care facility in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Long waiting times before receiving a health service, give rise to long queues and congested health facilities, both of which are unnecessary and avoidable. Since patients in part judge the quality of the service by the ... -
Measuring transitional matrix elements using first-order perturbation theory in Coulomb excitation
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The aim of nuclear structure physics is to study the interplay between singleparticle and collective degrees of freedom in nuclei and to explain how nuclei get excited and decay under di erent external conditions, such ... -
Mechanical and handling properties of light-cured acrylic resin custom tray material
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)Both light-cured (LC) and chemically-cured (CC) acrylic resin custom tray materials are used at the Oral Health Centre, Faculty of Dentistry, University of the Western Cape. At present, the CC acrylic is the standard for ... -
Mechanisms for facilitating trust and sense of belonging as aspects of social cohesion in local government: Exploratory case studies of the City of Cape Town and the City of Ekurhuleni
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)More than twenty-five years after the end of the apartheid system of government and its statutory segregation, South African communities continue to reflect high levels of racial and social divisions. The prevalence of ... -
Media representations of female genital mutilation: A thematic analysis of two Ugandan national English daily newspapers
(University of Western Cape, 2019)This study analyses media representations of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in two Ugandan daily English newspapers. FGM/C is recognized by the World Health Organization as an extreme form of violation of the ... -
Media representations of male perpetrators of violence against women and children: a decolonial feminist analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Rates of violence in South Africa continue to be on the rise, and impact negatively on society at large. The struggle to end this violence requires more nuanced understandings of its root causes, which has led to a call ... -
Media representations of reporting techniques of four news houses related to two mediated events during the Trump administration
(2020)Media representations, embedded in reported media events, play a pivotal role in the propagation of beliefs, ideologies and establishing the status quo. The media events are given coverage by news reports on newsworthy ... -
Mediating children’s development through storytelling and play activities: a socio-cultural study of a Waldorf kindergarten in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)The study focused on a Waldorf kindergarten, investigating the role of storytelling by the teacher, and the free imaginative play of the children. It utilised the socio-cultural theories of Lev Vygotsky as a theoretical ... -
Mediation and a Problem Solving Approach to Junior Primary Mathematics
(University of the Western Cape, 1996)This study argues that not all children in the Junior Primary phase benefit from the Problem Centred Approach in mathematics that was adapted by the Research, Unit for Mathematics at the University of Stellenbosch (RUMEUS). ... -
Mediation as an alternative to litigation: A comparative study between South Africa and Germany
(University of Western Cape, 2019)The judicial court system in South Africa is overburdened, which results in parties having to wait for long periods of time to have their matters settled or even heard. Furthermore, the cost of litigation in South Africa ... -
Medical doctors physical activity patterns and their advice about chronic diseases of lifestyle risk reduction in Tanzania
(2010)Chronic diseases of lifestyle (CDL) are on a raising trend in the world regardless of age,economic class or geographical location of a population. The mortality rate associated with CDL is alarmingly among the highest ... -
Medical doctors physical activity patterns and their advice about chronic diseases of lifestyle risk reduction in Tanzania
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)Chronic diseases of lifestyle (CDL) are on a raising trend in the world regardless of age, economic class or geographical location of a population. The mortality rate associated with CDL is alarmingly among the highest ... -
Medical doctors physical activity patterns and their advice about chronic diseases of lifestyle risk reduction in Tanzania
(2010)Chronic diseases of lifestyle (COL) are on a raising trend in the world regardless of age, economic class or geographical location of a population. The mortality rate associated with COL is alarmingly among the highest ... -
Medical male circumcision and Xhosa masculinities: Tradition and transformation
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)This research study investigates Xhosa men’s perceptions of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) in Khayelitsha township (Cape Town). It explored whether the introduction of VMMC as a state HIV-prevention strategy ... -
Medical students acting as health educators :the influence on adolescents' knowledge about HIV/Hepatitis B transmission, as well as attitudes, beliefs and intentions towards condom use
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)The aim of this quasi-experimental study was to examine the impact of a health education intervention on knowledge about HIV/Hepatitis B transmission, attitudes, beliefs and intentions towards condom use. Research has shown ... -
Medical students’ response-ability to unjust practices in obstetrics: A relational perspective
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)This study is located in the fourth-year obstetrics curriculum that undergraduate medical students at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, traverse, and in which they are initiated into the knowledge and skills of ... -
Medicinal plant use in the Dwarsrivier Valley, Stellenbosch
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)Plants have been used as medicine since antiquity. Passed on by word of mouth through the generations, this oral tradition is at risk of becoming extinct due to westernization and lack of documentation. The community in ... -
Medicinal uses of Galenia africana: A study of the antimicrobial, antifungal and anticancer properties
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Over the years, microorganisms have become resistant to commonly used antimicrobial agents leading to multidrug resistance. This is believed to occur even with new classes of therapeutic agents thus creating a challenge ... -
Medicinal uses of Galenia africana: A study of the antimicrobial, antifungal and anticancer properties
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Medicinal uses of Galenia africana: A study of the antimicrobial, antifungal and anticancer properties Over the years, microorganisms have become resistant to commonly used antimicrobial agents leading to multidrug resistance. ...