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Theses and Dissertations (Family Medicine)
Recent Submissions
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Mlambo, Siphesihle
(University of Pretoria, 2023-09)
Introduction
Maternal and perinatal deaths remain a major issue in South Africa regardless of various strategies that are in
place. Antenatal care (ANC), which is care given to a pregnant woman during pregnancy, and ANC ...
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Velavan, Jachin
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
Preamble: The ongoing professional development of India’s lean cadre of 250,000 General Practitioners and 30,000 Government doctors is constrained by limited options to update themselves. This negatively impacts on the ...
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Van Rooyen, Marietjie
(University of Pretoria, 2021)
Background:
The Longitudinal Clinic attachment program for students (L-CAS) offers opportunities for students to visit complex and diverse learning sites in primary care settings where they can acquire and practice ...
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Louw, Jakobus Murray
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
Aim:
This is a study of the extent to which clinical associate students learn person-centred practice (PcP) as well as the curricular elements that may facilitate such learning.
Methods:
A quality improvement intervention ...
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Janse van Rensburg, Michelle Nedine Schorn
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
Background: In South Africa, the re-engineering of primary health care (PHC) includes establishing PHC teams, also called ward-based outreach teams (WBOTs), which consist of community health workers (CHWs) who perform ...
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Honiball, Nina Marí
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
This study addresses an observable problem, which is that community health workers (CHWs) struggle to understand medical data maps and healthcare related statistics in community oriented primary care (COPC). COPC is a model ...
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Gaede, Bernhard Martin
(University of Pretoria, 2014)
Using insider-ethnography the study is an exploration of the experiences of public sector doctors in a rural hospital in KwaZulu-Natal. In the context of a complex policy environment as well as a stressed public sector ...