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Enhancing the value of mortality data for health systems : adding Circumstances Of Mortality CATegories (COMCATs) to deaths investigated by verbal autopsy
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-10-25)Half of the world’s deaths and their causes pass unrecorded by routine registration systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Verbal autopsy (VA) collects information on medical signs, symptoms and ... -
Gender and naming practices, and the creation of a taxonomy of masculinities in the South African soap opera The Queen
(Names Society of Southern Africa, 2019-07-01)The field of scholarly inquiry lying at the intersection of onomastics and gender studies is one that is under-researched. Seeking to contribute to emerging debates on how names and naming practices shape the construction ... -
Beinvloedt een meer of minder sympathieke protagonist de transportatie van de lezer?
(Amsterdam University Press, 2019-11-01)Three previous studies into presenting a protagonist in a story as more or less sympathetic have not provided a clear picture of the effects that the portrayal of the protagonist may have on transportation, and via ... -
Planning for change : transformation labs for an alternative food system in Cape Town, South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2020-11-17)There has been a call for more participatory processes to feed into urban planning formore resilient food systems. This paper describes a process of knowledge co-production for transforming towards an alternative food ... -
Experiential Education Conference at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 10–11 November 2020
(African Minds, 2020)Experiential Education as Pedagogy for Social Justice, Praxis and Practice for Shaping 21st‑Century Global Citizen LeadersStellenbosch University’s Division Student Affairs, Centre for Student Leadership, Experiential ... -
Student affairs in a traumatic year
(JSAA Editors in collaboration with Stellenbosch University and African Sun Media, 2020)The year 2020 is a year that we will remember globally in higher education as having been most unusual, indeed, traumatic. If at the beginning of 2020 the year had a hopeful ring with plenty, as it comes to an end it is ... -
An analysis of quality of education and its evaluation : a case of Zimbabwean primary schools
(Education Association of South Africa, 2019)This study sought to analyse quality of education and its evaluation in Zimbabwean primary schools. A qualitative research methodology was adopted. Thirty-five schools, 73 teachers, 15 school administrators and four Education ... -
Churches, universities and the post-TRC process : impulses from a consultation
(African Sun Media, 2020)This contribution, drawing on inputs of mentioned consultation, reflects on the implications for churches and universities of the mandate for a post-TRC process. It is argued that this mandate constitutes a threefold ... -
Celebrity health promotion messaging : novel opportunities to engage youth in the developmental origins of health and disease
(African Sun Media, 2020)This chapter is a personal view seen from disparate viewpoints of age and culture. Two proponents of health promotion, one a Ugandan youth with firsthand experience of the burden of illness among African children and the ... -
Intersectoral approaches to health and non-communicable disease prevention in Africa
(African Sun Media, 2020)This chapter grounds efforts to achieve optimal population health in Africa, within the context of global and regional aspirations for health as part of the sustainable development agenda. The author highlights the ... -
School-based initiatives to reduce malaria morbidity and promote academic achievement in children
(African Sun Media, 2020)In sub-Saharan Africa, the challenge of addressing illnesses related to the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) is compounded by other determinants of health, most notably the impact of poverty and ... -
An approach to reduce the blindness burden in sub-Saharan Africa : special focus on childhood blindness
(African Sun Media, 2020)Sub-Saharan Africa is afflicted with high levels of blindness burden, affecting the quality of life and productivity of its people. While cataracts account for over 40 per cent of blindness, uncorrected refractive error ... -
The World Health Organization's 'Health-promoting School' model: a potential avenue for developmental origins of health and disease education in Africa
(African Sun Media, 2020)Traditional health care strategies to manage illness are based on the tenets of prevention and cure. Health promotion is an urgent matter from both a health and economic standpoint, as most non-communicable diseases ... -
Photo-essays : a creative format for effective communication
(African Sun Media, 2020)Scientists and educators regularly face the challenge of effectively, concisely and interestingly communicating their ideas and findings, and the need to engage readers unfamiliar with the concepts or issues they want ... -
Diabetes in pregnancy : lessons for developing countries
(African Sun Media, 2020)Pregnancy diabetes is fast becoming a common condition across the world with developing countries particularly affected. In the short term, maternal hyperglycaemia worsens pregnancy outcomes, but in the long run, it ... -
Hyperglycaemia in pregnancy
(African Sun Media, 2020)According to the International Diabetes Federation, the burden of diabetes is progressively rising worldwide with an expected doubling of prevalence in most low- and middle-income settings within twenty-five years. The ... -
How environmental exposures early in life might influence phenotypes of non-cummunicable diseases in Africa
(African Sun Media, 2020)Chronic non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular and chronic respiratory diseases are leading causes of death and disability in the world – accounting for over 60 per cent of the nearly 60 ... -
The challenges of breastfeeeding in poor urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa
(African Sun Media, 2020)Optimal breastfeeding has the potential to prevent more than 800 000 deaths in children younger than five years; 500 000 neonatal deaths; and 20 000 deaths in women every year. Despite these benefits, evidence from ... -
The fundamental importance of breastfeeding for health and development
(African Sun Media, 2020)How an infant is nourished in early life is central to the DOHaD hypothesis regarding the later onset of chronic non-communicable diseases, especially where feeding practices result in either stunting of growth or excessive ... -
Relation between famine and health in future generations : potential knowledge translation to Africa
(African Sun Media, 2020)Nutrition provides the essential building blocks for human health. Although there is enough food on the planet to feed all its inhabitants, inequality in access to food poses serious threats to humanity. Poor nutrition, ...
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