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Barriers to adherence to antiretroviral treatment among adolescents in Onandjokwe district, Namibia
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Poor adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) among paediatric and adolescent patients remains a big concern to health workers at Onandjokwe CDC clinic in Oshikoto Region of Namibia. Despite successes in the scale up of ...
Development of the Public Health model of Community participation in the Kwazulu - Natal primary health care system
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
The purpose of this study was to develop the public health model of community participation
for the KwaZulu-Natal primary health care system. The model is intended to improve the
understanding of community participation ...
Development of a patient-centred in-service training programme for midwives to increase client satisfaction with child-birth care in Kumasi, Ghana
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Background: Satisfaction with the care mothers receive during child-birth is known to have a very strong influence on their future use of facility-based care during child-birth. Women and children continue to die from ...
Rehabilitated substance abusers' experience of aftercare following completion of inpatient treatment
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Substance abuse is a public health concern in South Africa, and Western Cape Province in particular has been identified as having alarming rates of substance abuse. Substance abuse is the cause of some of the most pervasive ...
Decentralised human resource management in a district health system: case studies in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
The effective management of the public health workforce, in the context of decentralisation
and the District Health System, is pivotal to the delivery of primary health care and,
ultimately, improved health. This research ...
The external validity of South African substance use contextual risk instrument: predictive validity
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
The purpose of the present study was to gather further external validity evidence towards the
validity argument for an instrument designed to measure individual and contextual factors
associated with adolescent substance ...
The barriers to access for maternal health care amongst pregnant adolescents in the Mitchells Plain Sub-district
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Adolescent pregnancy holds numerous health and social risks for mother
and child. Adolescent access to maternal health services is of vital importance to ensure that
pregnant adolescents receive timely and effective health ...
The effectiveness of dry needling as an intervention for acute Myofascial low back pain
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Myofascial pain syndrome is a condition caused by myofascial trigger points, which could
occur in any area of the body, that affects a large number of the general population and is
reported to impair mobility, cause pain, ...
The Prevalence of immunization and the factors associated with low immunization prevalence in an urban community in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
In 2013/2014 the fully immunized child immunization prevalence in South Africa was
80% is below the national target of 90%. A review of Western Cape Government (WCG): Health
immunization data indicated that 87.7% of children ...
Acceptance and commitment therapy in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV program among pregnant women living with HIV in South Western States of Nigeria
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
The objective of this study was to determine if introducing acceptance and
commitment therapy in the prevention of mother to child HIV transmission (PMTCT)
program using weekly mobile phone messages would result in ...