This study looks at the equality challenges and opportunities for women with disabilities in low and middle income countries (LMICs) to participate and succeed in education, employment and motherhood. It is based on a ...

Background: The Programme for Improving Mental Health Care (PRIME) sought to implement mental health care plans (MHCP) for four priority mental disorders (depression, alcohol use disorder, psychosis and epilepsy) into ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Introduction: Center of pressure (COP) has been frequently used as a guide of postural stability in standing. Objectives: The study aimed to describe postural sway (as determined by the center of pressure) ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY: The causes of intraocular inflammation are divided into 3 large groups namely infectious, non-infectious and idiopathic. This research project set out to establish the prevalence of these 3 large groups ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Problem Based Learning (PBL) has been widely adopted by medical educators across the globe since its inception at McMaster Medical School in Canada. It is a student-centered instructional approach in which ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Introduction: People with SCI often have great need for health care services, but they report access challenges. Primary care access to people with SCI has not been explored in Botswana. Aim: This study ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Walking with an above knee prosthesis places high physical demands on a person. People with an above knee amputation tend to use their prosthesis less frequently compared to people with a below ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Stroke is an alarming medical and public health problem globally. Effects of stroke are strongly linked to an increase in burden of care and loss in productivity. Literature shows that a large ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Introduction: Professionalism is a contested concept due to dynamic evolutions and variations in use and application. The term remains hard to define despite the extensive research by many social science ...

Introduction Obesity is associated with the development of metabolic syndrome, a conglomerate of cardiometabolic risk factors, which synergistically result in cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), the major leading cause of ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Pregnant women or couples who screen high risk for a baby with Down syndrome (DS) are faced with having to make life changing decisions. Firstly, they need to decide whether they want prenatal diagnostic ...

Introduction: Although Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has dramatically reduced HIVassociated morbidity and mortality, non-HIV-related conditions and comorbidities continue to rise in this population. Cardiovascular disease ...

Background: Cancerous tumours are characterised by areas of insufficient blood supply, with resulting hypoxia and nutrient deprivation. The mechanisms by which cancer cells adapt to these conditions are of interest due ...

Introduction: Myocardial ischaemia and concomitant cell damage are caused by a reduction in the blood supply to the heart. To date, the most effective strategy to salvage the myocardium is timely reperfusion which is ...

Introduction: Affordable basic semen analysis remains a fundamental procedure to be performed routinely during the diagnosis of male infertility. Advanced semen analyses, provide valuable clinical insights in treatment ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Various studies have sought to determine the typical versus optimal abstinence period after which semen samples should be collected, and many have been found to be contradictory. Several factors influence ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Faculty development is an institutional imperative that aims to ensure that health professions educators are adequately equipped as educators in their profession. Institutions have thus developed and ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Continuous professional development (CPD) is a requirement for all healthcare professionals in South Africa. The shift-driven work environment of pre-hospital care often makes attending CPD events ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Traditionally, the design of health professions curricula was often guided by traditions, values and priorities of academics. This, however, has led to a mismatch of graduates’ competencies to patient and ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : A critical review of the curriculum at the University of Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences prompted the faculty to explore educational strategies that would engage students to actively learn. Peer teaching ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Clinical placements are used as a bridge from classroom learning to real life settings (Stupans et al., 2013). Over the years, the Block Rotation Clerkship (BRC) model of clinical placements has been ...

Introduction: Obesity is an excessive fat accumulation in the body, known to be a significant precursor to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Complications associated with obesity can contribute to the development of ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Learning skills and competencies through simulation is a safe way of teaching medical students clinical procedures before exposing real patients to their practice. This is the case at the Ziauddin University ...

Introduction: HIV/AIDS mortality is declining due to successful highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). However, obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in treated ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Medical Laboratory Sciences (MLS) recently introduced a new degree course for professionals of laboratory medicine. The revision of the qualification has led to the re-evaluation and restructuring of the ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Students base their approaches to learning on their perceptions of the educational practices that they are exposed to. The significance of selected educational models is therefore not to be underestimated ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Medication errors are a worldwide phenomenon. Medication administration errors are one of the most prevalent types of medication errors occurring in the medical field today. Nurses are mainly responsible ...

Young women in age-asymmetric relationships may be at an elevated risk for acquisition of HIV, since relationships with older men are also correlated with other risk behaviors like less condom use. Qualitative studies have ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Much of the research on anxiety disorders has focused on associated risk factors with less attention paid to factors such as resilience that may mitigate risk or offer protection in the face ...