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Marcus, Tessa S.; Roebuck, C.S. (SATC, 2000-07)Paper presented at the South African Transport Conference 17 - 20 July 2000 "Action in transport for the new millennium", CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa.
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Kinkel, Hans-Friedemann; Adelekan, Adeboye Mutiu; Marcus, Tessa S.; Wolvaardt, Gustaaf (BioMed Central, 2012-07-31)BACKGROUND In South Africa the ever increasing demand for antiretroviral treatment (ART) runs the risk of leading to sub-optimal care in public sector ART clinics that are overburdened and under resourced. This study ...
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Louw, Jakobus Murray; Marcus, Tessa S.; Hugo, Johannes F.M. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2021-04)BACKGROUND. Research shows that person-centredness declines during medical education. This study examines the underlying assumptions and effects of clinical associate training interventions on person-centred practice. ...
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Peters, F.; Marcus, Tessa S. (South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care, 2011-03)BACKGROUND : Medically safe, elective male circumcision supports traditional and cultural rites of passage by reducing the risk of adverse events and death among men undergoing initiation. It is a way of preventing penile ...
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Hugo, Johannes F.M.; Slabbert, J.; Louw, Jakobus Murray; Marcus, Tessa S.; Bac, Martin; Du Toit, Pieter Hertzog; Sandars, J.E. (Open Journals Systems, 2012-12)The Bachelor of Clinical Medical Practice (BCMP) is a new degree at the University of Pretoria (UP), designed to create a new category of mid-level medical workers, namely clinical associates. UP produced its first 44 ...
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Kinkel, Hans-Friedemann; Marcus, Tessa S.; Memon, Shehla; Bam, Nomonde; Hugo, Johannes F.M. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2013-04-02)Re-engineering primary health care is a cornerstone of the health sector reform initiated nationally in South Africa in 2009. Using the concept of ward based NGO-run health posts, Tshwane District, Gauteng, began ...
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Scheibe, Andrew; Ncube, Likwa; Nonyane, Dimakatso S.; Coetzee-Spies, Magriet; Marcus, Tessa S. (Unisa Press, 2023-09)The City of Tshwane and University of Pretoria’s Community Oriented Substance Use Programme (COSUP) is an applied research intervention to address drug use-related harms in the city by using a harm reduction community-oriented ...
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Bam, Nomonde; Marcus, Tessa S.; Hugo, Johannes F.M.; Kinkel, Hans-Friedemann (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-02-22)Health sector reforms initiated in South Africa in 1994 adopted a primary health care approach to strengthen the health system and achieve public health outcomes through disease prevention and health promotion.1 This led ...
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Marcus, Tessa S.; Lunda, Samy; Fernandez, Leticia (OpenJournals Publishing, 2013-08-15)BACKGROUND: Breast (and cervical) cancer affects a growing proportion of women in South Africa. Although treatable, where health literacy is low, women typically seek medical attention only when their condition is at an ...
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Kapwata, Thandi; Breetzke, Gregory Dennis; Wright, Caradee Yael; Marcus, Tessa S.; Eales, O.O. (Owen) (International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2022-01)BACKGROUND : The infectiousness of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is known to be shaped by the human environment, with research showing positive associations with poverty, homelessness and overcrowding, among other factors. ...
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Van Rooyen, Marietjie; Reinbrech-Schutte, Angelika; Hugo, Johannes F.M.; Marcus, Tessa S. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017-06)BACKGROUND. The Longitudinal Community Attachment programme for Students (L-CAS) is an activity by means of which each student is exposed to primary healthcare learning and practice in communities. Capability has been ...
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Janse van Rensburg, Michelle Nedine Schorn; Marcus, Tessa S. (AOSIS, 2020-02)BACKGROUND: In 2018, the South African National Department of Health (NDoH) published a 5-year policy framework and strategy for Ward-Based Primary Healthcare Outreach teams to improve team management and leadership and ...
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Fernandez, Leticia; Rossouw, Theresa M.; Marcus, Tessa S.; Reinbrech-Schutte, Angelika; Smit, Nicoleen; Kinkel, Hans-Friedemann; Memon, Shehla; Hugo, Johannes F.M. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2014-01-31)BACKGROUND: This research focused on patients’ views regarding healthcare services and identified factors associated with understanding of their management plan. AIM: To develop a baseline for patient–clinician collaboration ...
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Marcus, Tessa S.; Heese, Jan; Scheibe, Andrew; Shelly, Shaun; Lalla, Sasha X.; Hugo, Johannes F.M. (BioMed Central, 2020-08-24)BACKGROUND : Caledonian Stadium, the main mass temporary shelter for homeless people in the City of Tshwane, was created as a local response to the imperatives of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) National State ...
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Scheibe, Andrew; Shelly, Shaun; Hugo, Johannes F.M.; Mohale, Matilda; Lalla, Sasha X.; Renkin, Wayne; Gloeck, Natasha; Khambule, Senzo; Kroucamp, Lorinda; Bhoora, Urvisha; Marcus, Tessa S. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-05)BACKGROUND: The Community Oriented Substance Use Programme (COSUP) is the first publicly funded, community-based programmatic response to the use of illegal substances in South Africa. It is founded on a systems thinking, ...
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Louw, Jakobus Murray; Marcus, Tessa S.; Hugo, Johannes F.M. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-03)BACKGROUND: Facilitation and collaboration differentiates person-centred practice (PcP) from biomedical practice. In PcP, a person-centred consultation requires clinicians to juggle three processes: facilitation, clinical ...
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Marcus, Tessa S.; Renkin, Wayne; Malan, A.S.; Moodie, James M.; Mostert, J.; Phote, Z.; Hugo, J.F.M. (Jannie) (BMC, 2024-10)BACKGROUND: This is a study of service provider perceptions of the place, role and practices of CHWs in a four-year, large-scale private sector funded, public service ICT-enabled COPC intervention with rural and remote ...
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The impact of chronic pain on the quality of life of patients attending primary healthcare clinics Rauf, Waqar-Un Nisa; Meyer, Helgard Pieter; Marcus, Tessa S.; Becker, Piet J. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014)OBJECTIVES: The objective was to study the nature and magnitude of the impact of pain on the quality of life of patients with chronic pain. DESIGN: This was a descriptive, cross-sectional quantitative study. SETTING AND ...
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Swanepoel, Ilze; Geyer, Stephan; Marcus, Tessa S. (African Center for Research and Information on Substance Abuse, 2022)Substance Use Disorder (SUD) is a persistent and global public health and social problem. This scoping review explores and describes the impact that Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) have on families and carers. It draws on ...
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Infrastructural inequality and household COVID-19 vulnerability in a South African urban settlement Marcus, Simon M.; Marcus, Tessa S. (Springer, 2022-06)COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of household infrastructure in containing the spread of SARS-CoV-2, with Global South urban settlements particularly vulnerable. Targeted interventions have used area or dwelling ...
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