Browsing Research Articles (Family Medicine and Primary Care) by Title
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Factors influencing female doctors career decisions at Tshwane District Hospital, Pretoria
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-11)Introduction: Most doctors at Tshwane District Hospital in Pretoria are women who experience difficulty combining a career with family responsibilities because of lack of flexitime or part-time posts. They are also frustrated ... -
Factors influencing post-partum women’s choice of an implantable contraceptive device in a rural district hospital in South Africa
(Cogent OA, 2018)Background: A single-rod subdermal contraceptive implant containing 68 mg of etonogestrel, ImplanonNXT®, was introduced to the South African healthcare system in 2014. Initially the new device was well received but later ... -
Factors influencing specialist outreach and support services to rural populations in the Eden and Central Karoo districts of the Western Cape
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015-05)Background: Access to health care often depends on where one lives. Rural populations have significantly poorer health outcomes than their urban counterparts. Specialist outreach to rural communities is one way of improving ... -
Faith-based organisations and HIV prevention in Africa : a review
(AOSIS Publishing, 2013-05)Background: Faith-based organisations (FBOs) are potentially an important role-player in HIV prevention, but there has been little systematic study of their potential strengths and weaknesses in this area. Objectives: ... -
Family medicine in South Africa : exploring future scenarios
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2017)This paper reports on a workshop held at the 19th National Family Practitioners Conference in August 2016. The aim of the workshop was to describe possible future scenarios for the discipline of family medicine in South ... -
Family medicine training in Africa : views of clinical trainers and trainees
(AOSIS, 2018-04)Background: This article reports on the findings of a workshop held at the joint 5th World Organisation of Family Doctors (WONCA) Africa and 20th National Family Practitioners Conference in Tshwane, South Africa, in 2017. ... -
Family medicine, primary health care and HIV medicine - a 'new' clinical speciality and its role in the South African HIV pandemic
(2009)Context: Because of the extent of the HIV pandemic, but also due to some specific historical conditions, HIV medicine has evolved as a field of its own in South African medicine. With the massive scale of the roll-out of ... -
Family physicians’ experience and understanding of evidence-based practice and guideline implementation in primary care practice, Cape Town, South Africa
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: In primary care, patients present with multimorbidity and a wide spectrum of undifferentiated illnesses, which makes the application of evidence-based practice (EBP) principles more challenging than in other ... -
Family practice ethics : postmodern ethics for a postmodern discipline?
(Medpharm Publications, 2000)This paper is aimed at describing an ethics of Family Practice. ln order to achieve this, universal ethical theories and the four principles of ethics - autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice - are placed in ... -
The first National Family Medicine Conference in Botswana, May 2013
(AOSIS Publishing, 2014-02)Introduction: The theme of the conference was ‘Family Medicine Training and Career Paths for Family Physicians in Botswana’. This topic was deemed to be appropriate as there is a need for countries to define the role of ... -
A framework for distributed health professions training : using participatory action research to build consensus
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2020-05-14)Background: There is a global trend towards providing training for health professions students outside of tertiary academic complexes. In many countries, this shift places pressure on available sites and the resources at ... -
'Going the extra mile' : supervisors’ perspectives on what makes a 'good' intern
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2018-10)Background: Much has been published on whether newly graduated doctors are ready for practice, seeking to understand how to better prepare graduates for the workplace. Most studies focus on undergraduate education as ... -
Health and fracking : should the medical profession be concerned?
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2014-05)The use of natural gas that is obtained from high-volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) may reduce carbon emissions relative to the use of coal and have substantial economic benefits for South Africa. However, concerns ... -
Health lifestyle interventions and climate change : how can we change our lifestyle to help mitigate climate change
(Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 2012-03)The recent high-level meeting of the general assembly of the United Nations noted with concern the ‘increasing challenges posed by climate change and the loss of biodiversity, and their effect on the control and prevention ... -
The healthy primary school of the future : study protocol of a quasi-experimental study
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background: Unhealthy lifestyles in early childhood are a major global health challenge. These lifestyles often persist from generation to generation and contribute to a vicious cycle of health-related and social ... -
History of medicine : the Hamilton Naki Clinical Scholarship, 2007-2011
(Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 2012-01)The Hamilton Naki Scholarship was introduced because of the shortage of qualified academic leaders in South African medical schools, especially for academic clinicians from previously disadvantaged backgrounds. There ... -
HIV and/or AIDS-related deaths and modifiable risk factors : a descriptive study of medical admissions at Oshakati Intermediate Hospital in Northern Namibia
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015-09)Background: High rates of HIV infection have decreased life expectancy in many African countries. Regardless of worldwide efforts to escalate treatment, care and prevention strategies, the number of deaths due to AIDS-related ... -
HIV and/or AIDS-related deaths and modifiable risk factors : a descriptive study of medical admissions at Oshakati Intermediate Hospital in Northern Namibia
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015-12-09)Introduction: High rates of HIV infection have decreased life expectancy in many African countries. Regardless of worldwide efforts to escalate treatment, care and prevention strategies, the number of deaths due to AIDS ... -
How children access antiretroviral treatment at Kgapane District Hospital, Limpopo, South Africa
(Medpharm Publications, 2012)Background: At Kgapane Hospital, Limpopo Province, only 20% of eligible children initiated antiretroviral treatment (ART) in 2007. The aim of this study was to improve the ART programme by assessing how children were ... -
How far does family physician supply correlate with district health system performance?
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015-06)Background: Since 2011, a new cadre of family physicians, with 4 years of postgraduate training, was deployed in the district health services of the Western Cape, and tasked witha considerable range of duties aimed at a ...
