Background: HIV and AIDS is the leading cause of death among adults in subSaharan Africa, and the burden of non- communicable diseases such as diabetes mellitus is high and growing as well. This has resulted in the increase ...
Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent of adherence to Infection Prevention and Control (IP&C) practices and programs amongst healthcare workers (HCWs) in the neonatal ward at Charlotte Maxeke ...
Traumatic intracranial haemorrhages are common, carry a high mortality rate and are therefore commonly known in the practice of forensic pathology as unnatural deaths. Studies have demonstrated a significant decrease in ...
Background
Previous studies have shown that medication errors are the most frequent cause of preventable morbidity in health care facilities. Although medication errors are inevitable, the determination of medication ...
Employee Health and Wellness Program is an intervention to form a comprehensive health, productivity, risk management and wellness in the workplace. The study was therefore aimed at assessing awareness and perceptions by ...
Background: Health care workers (HCWs) hands are the most common vehicle for the transmission of health care associated infections (HCAIs) between patients and the health care environment. Hand hygiene is regarded as the ...
Background: Community service health professionals working in rural areas experience challenges such poor accommodation, poor supervision, unavailability of equipment and medication. The majority of studies focussed on ...
Background: Worldwide, childhood obesity has increased over the past few decades. It has become a public health concern in South Africa and in many developing countries. The aim of the study was to determine the knowledge ...
Background: Tuberculosis still continues to be a global public health problem and leads to many deaths. In an effective TB control strategy, TB patients are allocated to community care workers who provide care to these ...
The purpose of this study was to profile selected cardiovascular disease risk factors among HIV patients on ART in Bushbuckridge sub-district. Quantitative, crosssectional research was conducted to describe cardiovascular ...
Quality health care includes availability, accessibility, affordability, acceptability, competence of health care providers, reducing waiting time, ensuring privacy and confidentiality, ensuring safety and security, and ...
Objectives
To determine the prevalence and survival rate; and to assess the maternal risk
factors as well as complications of prematurity, associated with the mortality of very
low and extremely low birth weight ...
Virological failure occurs when the viral load fails to supress to undetectable limit and immunological failure is when the immune system fails to improve with the CD4 count remaining low on clients on antiretroviral drugs. ...
Introduction: Exclusive breastfeeding for six months, with introduction of appropriate complimentary feeding at six months, continuing to 2 years and beyond comes highly recommended. Although breastfeeding rates have ...
Background: School children are mostly affected by diarrhoeal and respiratory infections and these are related to lack of proper hand washing. For children to be able to practice proper hand washing, they must have the ...
Lekoloana, Matome Abel(University of Limpopo, 2019)
The quality of mortality data in South Africa has been questioned because of the high percentage of deaths reported to be due to ill-defined causes. We sought to assess the level of knowledge of doctors on the International ...
BACKGROUND The measurement of the refractive end point plays a major role in the assessment of the refractive status of the patient. Currently, there are very few techniques if not one that can measure the refractive end ...