Browsing Psychiatry by Subject "Mental health services -- South Africa"

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Clinical factors associated with rape victims' ability to testify in court : a records-based study of final psychiatric recommendation to court

Phaswana, T.D.; Van der Westhuizen, Deborah; Kruger, Christa (In House Publications, 2013-09)

OBJECTIVE : A rape victim may encounter professionals in both the health and the legal systems. Unanswered questions remain about clinical factors associated with a rape victim's ability to testify in court, and the quality ...
Sub-specialties in psychiatry : towards parity in mental health training and services

Stein, D.J. (Dan); Betancourt, O. Alonso; Emsley, Robin A.; Jeenah, Yasmien; Mkize, Dan; Pretorius, Janus; Rataemane, Solomon; Roos, J.L. (Johannes Louw); Szabo, Christopher P. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2009-01)

Neuropsychiatric disorders account for 5 of the 10 most disabling medical disorders worldwide, and for a particularly large component of the burden of disease in South Africa. Unfortunately, as elsewhere, training and ...
Syphilis sero-positivity in recently admitted and long inpatients : screening, prevalence and diagnostic profile

Henning, M.P.; Kruger, Christa; Fletcher, Lizelle (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-12)

BACKGROUND: Syphilis research has neglected the prevalence of the disease among psychiatric patients, and traditional syphilis screening has been reported as inadequate. OBJECTIVES: (i) To assess the syphilis prevalence ...

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