Browsing Research Articles (Family Medicine and Primary Care) by Title
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Decentralised training for medical students : a scoping review
(BioMed Central, 2017-11-09)Background: Increasingly, medical students are trained at sites away from the tertiary academic health centre. A growing body of literature identifies the benefits of decentralised clinical training for students, the ... -
Decentralised training for medical students : towards a South African consensus
(AOSIS publishing, 2017-09)Introduction: Health professions training institutions are challenged to produce greater numbers of graduates who are more relevantly trained to provide quality healthcare. Decentralised training offers opportunities to ... -
Definition of a family physician, for South African family practice
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Democracy and sustainable health care
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Development of a family physician impact assessment tool in the district health system of the Western Cape Province, South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2014-12)Background: Policy makers in Africa are ambivalent about the need for family physicians to strengthen district health services. Evidence on the impact of family physicians is therefore needed. The aim was to ... -
Development of a portfolio of learning for postgraduate family medicine training in South Africa : a Delphi study
(BioMed Central, 2012-03)Background Within the 52 health districts in South Africa, the family physician is seen as the clinical leader within a multi-professional district health team. Family physicians must be competent to meet 90% of the ... -
Development of a training programme for primary care providers to counsel patients with risky lifestyle behaviours in South Africa
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015-06)Background: We are facing a global epidemic of non-communicable disease (NCDs), which has been linked with four risky lifestyle behaviours. It is recommended that primary care providers (PCPs) provide individual brief ... -
Development of family medicine training in Botswana : views of key stakeholders in Ngamiland
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015-08-31)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Family Medicine training commenced in Botswana in 2011, and Maun was one of the two sites chosen as a training complex. If it is to be successful there has to be investment in the training ... -
The development of passive health surveillance by a sentinel network of family practitioners in South Africa
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1998)Objective. For the South African Sentinel Practitioner Research Network (SASPREN), a volunteer network of family practitioners in South Africa, to develop a health surveillance system through the surveillance of important ... -
Diabetes education in primary care : a practical approach using the Addie model
(Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 2010-10)Diabetes is an almost perfect example of a chronic disease that requires high levels of behaviour change and self-care activities. Many articles are written on the aspects of lifestyle that should be modified and what ... -
The effect of an automated integrated management of childhood illness guideline on the training of professional nurses in the Western Cape, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)Background: Reducing under-five mortality rates is a global priority. Although under-five mortality has decreased in South Africa, it is still unacceptably high. The implementation of the Integrated Management of Childhood ... -
Effectiveness of a group diabetes education programme in underserved communities in South Africa : pragmatic cluster randomized control trial
(BioMed Central, 2012-12)Background: Diabetes is an important contributor to the burden of disease in South Africa and prevalence rates as high as 33% have been recorded in Cape Town. Previous studies show that quality of care and health outcomes ... -
Effectiveness of home-based directly obeserved treatment for tuberculosis in Kweneng West subdistrict, Botswana
(AOSIS Publishing, 2010)Background: Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV are major public health problems in Botswana. In the face of growing TB notification rates, a low cure rate, human resource constraints and poor accessibility to health facilities, ... -
The effects of a language barrier in a South African district hospital
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2006-10)Background. Communication between health workers and patients at Hottentots Holland Hospital (HHH) is hindered by staff and patients not speaking the same language. HHH is a district hospital in the Cape Town Metropolitan ... -
Emergency contraceptive knowledge, attitudes and practices among female students at the University of Botswana : a descriptive survey
(AOSIS publishing, 2018-09)Background: Unintended pregnancies are associated with unsafe abortions and maternal deaths, particularly in countries such as Botswana, where abortion is illegal. Many of these unwanted pregnancies could be avoided by ... -
Emergency contraceptive knowledge, attitudes and practices among female students at the University of Botswana : a descriptive survey
(AOSIS, 2018-09)Background: Unintended pregnancies are associated with unsafe abortions and maternal deaths, particularly in countries such as Botswana, where abortion is illegal. Many of these unwanted pregnancies could be avoided by ... -
The epidemiology of operations performed by the National Sea Rescue Institute of South Africa over a 5-year period
(Via Medica, 2018)Background: Injuries remain a major contributor of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with drowning accounting for 7% of all injury-related deaths with rates of between 4 and 8 per 100,000. The African region has death ... -
Equipping family physician trainees as teachers : a qualitative evaluation of a twelve-week module on teaching and learning
(London : Biomed Central, 2014-10)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There is a dire need to expand the capacity of institutions in Africa to educate health care professionals. Family physicians, as skilled all-rounders at district level, are potentially well placed to ... -
Erectile function in circumcised and uncircumcised men in Lusaka, Zambia : a cross-sectional study
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015-06)Background: Evidence from three randomised control trials in South Africa, Uganda and Kenya showing that male circumcision can reduce heterosexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection from infected ... -
Evaluating point-of-care testing for glycosylated haemoglobin in public sector primary care facilities in the Western Cape, South Africa
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2016)Background. Diabetes mellitus contributes significantly to the burden of disease in South Africa (SA). Monitoring of glycaemic control with glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c) is recommended, even though current laboratory-based ...
