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Browsing School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH) by Type "Dissertation"
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(University of Pretoria, 2009-04-28)Aim To determine the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of patients accessing antiretroviral treatment, in the public sector in Zambia. Methods A descriptive cross-sectional survey, using a pre-structured ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The eagerness to overcome workforce health crises in the mining industry continues to be a challenge, undermining health system transformation globally and more specifically in South Africa. Despite policy implementation ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Guideline development processes influence the quality of clinical guidelines. The aim of this study was to use the AGREE II instrument to evaluate the variability of the quality of selected guidelines, to determine a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)In 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed to developing countries a different approach to antenatal care (ANC) service delivery called the “Goal-oriented” or “focused ANC” (FANC) approach. Since then, a number ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-02-01)The altitude at which oxygen supplementation should commence to be administered to aircrew in South Africa, flying in unpressurised aircraft is 12,000 feet. Above that altitude effects of reduced tissue oxygen content ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-10-03)The WHO member countries undertook to eliminate poliomyelitis globally by the year 2000. Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance finds paralytic cases of polio so that swift action can be taken and shows that wild ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011)Children are a highly susceptible population to the effects of air pollution. To establish a current baseline of child respiratory health and associated risk factors in the Highveld Priority Area, a quantitative questionnaire ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)Introduction: Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a major life-threatening complication of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Insulin treatment for diabetic ketoacidosis is guided using the changes in blood glucose levels, blood ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-06-14)Lesotho is experiencing a problem of seasonal bloody diarrhoea outbreaks that occur in the southern districts of the country. Usually large proportions of the meagre resources are used to combat such outbreaks. Measures ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014-11)The global commitment by governments throughout the world to scaling up access to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) in response to the crisis imposed by the HIV epidemic has resulted in a large number of people living with Human ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Background: This study compares three methodologies appropriate for the analysis of longitudinal time-to-event data. The Cox model is well researched and frequently used. Threshold regression, however, is relatively new ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Background: Immunological and virological responses to ART are important outcome indicators that are mostly used to evaluate the success of an ART program. A comparative performance between ART providers based on the two ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Background: International analyses suggest that routine maternal vaccination with seasonal trivalent influenza vaccine is cost-effective, but few studies have been done in middle- to low- income countries. Method: A ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Background: South Africa is a country with the unique quadruple burden of disease and a shortage of health care workers (HCWs). This increased HCWs: patient ratio creates an excessive workload on HCWs. HCWs that are trying ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-06-14)A large number of man-made chemicals are present in the environment as pollutants and are capable of disrupting the endocrine system of animals and humans. Small-sized industry is an area where such chemicals are used and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Background: During day to day mining activities, miners are exposed to different airborne pollutants, which may result in occupational lung diseases (OLDs). In South Africa mining is a primary industrial activity that ...
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Determinants of adverse pregnant outcomes in Mutare district clinics, Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe (University of Pretoria, 2014)Globally, neonatal mortality, and still births are major public health problems. Though preventable, nearly three million babies die every year in their first month of life and a similar number are stillborn, accounting ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of micro- or macroalbuminuria among type 1 and type 2 diabetic patients and to examine the relationship with diabetes control parameters: haemoglobin A1C ...
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Economic evaluation of a school based human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program in South Africa (University of Pretoria, 2014)Introduction Oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 pose the greatest risk for cervical cancer. Infection with HPV types 16 and 18, which cause 70% of cervical cancer worldwide, could be prevented with ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Background: Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) can inform on the timing of hyperglycaemia; however there is currently no standardised approach to utilise these data to improve glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes ...
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