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The challenges of reshaping disease specific and care oriented community based services towards comprehensive goals : a situation appraisal in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2015-09-30)
ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Similar to other countries in the region, South Africa is currently reorienting a loosely structured and highly diverse community care system that evolved around HIV and TB, into a formalized, ...
Does counselling improve uptake of long-term and permanent contraceptive methods in a high HIV-prevalence setting?
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015-11)
Background: Studies have shown a reduced uptake of contraceptive methods in HIV-positive women of childbearing age, mainly because of unmet needs that may be a result of poor promotion of available methods of contraception, ...
Perceptions about data-informed decisions : an assessment of information-use in high HIV-prevalence settings in South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2017-12-04)
Background: Information-use is an integral component of a routine health information system and essential to influence policy-making, program actions and research. Despite an increased amount of routine data collected, ...
Training for health services and systems research in Sub-Saharan Africa : a case study at four East and Southern African Universities
(BioMed Central, 2013-12)
Abstract
Background
The need to develop capacity for health services and systems research (HSSR) in low and middle income countries has been highlighted in a number of international forums. ...
The acceptability of three vaccine injections given to infants during a single clinic visit in South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2016)
ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: The Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) has increased the number of antigens and injections administered at one visit. There are concerns that more injections at a single immunisation ...
Capacity-building needs assessment of rural health managers : the what and the how ...
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2015-07)
ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: There has been a renewed focus on leadership and governance within the South African health workforce as a key to strengthening the health system. Several studies have highlighted that managers ...
Equipping medical graduates to address health systems challenges in South Africa : an expressed need for curriculum change
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2015)
Background: Stellenbosch University Rural Medical Education Partnership Initiative (SURMEPI) aims to enhance health systems knowledge and skills to empower medical graduates to address health systems challenges especially ...
Mind the gap! Risk factors for poor continuity of care of TB patients discharged from a hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa
(Public Library of Science, 2018)
Background:
TB patients discharged from hospitals in South Africa experience poor continuity of care, failing to continue TB treatment at other levels of care. Factors contributing to poor continuity of TB care are ...