Browsing Research Articles (School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH)) by Title

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  • Gaps and opportunities for cervical cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care : evidence from midterm review of the Zimbabwe cervical cancer prevention and control strategy (2016-2020) 
    Tapera, Oscar; Nyakabau, Anna M.; Simango, Ndabaningi; Guzha, Bothwell T.; Jombo-Nyakuwa, Shamiso; Takawira, Eunice; Mapanga, Angeline; Makosa, Davidzoyashe; Madzima, Bernard (BMC, 2021)
    BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer amongst women globally and it accounts for the majority of cancer deaths among females in Zimbabwe. The objective of this midterm review analysis was to identify ...
  • Gathering the evidence and identifying opportunities for future research in climate, heat and health in South Africa : the role of the South African Medical Research Council 
    Wright, Caradee Yael; Kapwata, Thandi; Wernecke, Bianca; Garland, Rebecca M.; Nkosi, Vusumuzi; Shezi, B.; Landman, Willem Adolf; Mathee, A. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2019-11)
    BACKGROUND: A changing climate is likely to have widespread and varying impacts on ecosystems and human health. South Africa (SA) is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, given the projected increases ...
  • General Christiaan de Wet 
    Eloff, Fanie; Moloney, Melita (2011)
  • Genexpert MTB/RIF diagnostic and tuberculosis treatment initiation delays in Namibia 
    Chikuse, Francis F.; Dzikiti, Brighton T.; Chideme-Munodawafa, Auxilia; Maruta, Talkmore; Mavondo, Greanious A.; Mukesi, Munyaradzi; Maisiri, Mathew; Gundidza, Patricia T.; Amukugo, Han J.; Akai, Larai A.; Soko, Munyaradzi M. (Society for Advanced Healthcare Research, 2019)
    BACKGROUND : Early diagnosis and treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis are crucial in the control of the disease and treatment success. In Namibia, there is a gap in empirical data on the diagnosis and treatment initiation ...
  • Genome-wide interrogation of structural variation reveals novel African-specific prostate cancer oncogenic drivers 
    Gong, Tingting; Jaratlerdsiri, Weerachai; Jiang, Jue; Willet, Cali; Chew, Tracy; Patrick, Sean Mark; Lyons, Ruth J.; Haynes, Anne‑Maree; Pasqualim, Gabriela; Brum, Ilma Simoni; Stricker, Phillip D.; Mutambirwa, Shingai B.A.; Sadsad, Rosemarie; Papenfuss, Anthony T.; Bornman, Maria S. (Riana); Chan, Eva K.F.; Hayes, Vanessa M. (BMC, 2022-08-31)
    BACKGROUND : African ancestry is a significant risk factor for advanced prostate cancer (PCa). Mortality rates in sub- Saharan Africa are 2.5-fold greater than global averages. However, the region has largely been excluded ...
  • Geo-analysis : the distribution of community health workers in relation to the HIV prevalence in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa 
    Khumalo, Gugulethu Eve; Ntuli, S.; Lutge, E.; Mashamba‑Thompson, Tivani Phosa (BMC, 2022-03)
    BACKGROUND: The South African Ward Based Primary Health Care Outreach Team (WBPHCOT) policy framework states that the distribution of community health workers (CHWs) should be proportional to levels of poverty and disease ...
  • Geo-epidemiology of malaria incidence in the Vhembe District to guide targeted elimination strategies, South-Africa, 2015-2018 : a local resurgence 
    Dieng, Sokhna; Adebayo-Ojo, Temitope Christina; Kruger, Taneshka; Riddin, Megan A.; Trehard, Helene; Tumelero, Serena; Bendiane, Marc-Karim; De Jager, Christiaan; Patrick, Sean Mark; Bornman, Maria S. (Riana); Gaudart, Jean (Nature Research, 2023)
    In South Africa, the population at risk of malaria is 10% (around six million inhabitants) and concern only three provinces of which Limpopo Province is the most affected, particularly in Vhembe District. As the elimination ...
  • GIS-based spatiotemporal mapping of malaria prevalence and exploration of environmental inequalities 
    Ogunsakin, Ropo Ebenezer; Babalola, Bayowa Teniola; Olusola, Johnson Adedeji; Joshua, Ayodele Oluwasola; Okpeku, Moses (Springer, 2024-07)
    Malaria poses a significant threat to global health, with particular severity in Nigeria. Understanding key factors influencing health outcomes is crucial for addressing health disparities. Disease mapping plays a vital ...
  • Global estimates on the number of people blind or visually impaired by cataract : a meta-analysis from 2000 to 2020 
    Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study; GBD 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborators; Pesudovs, Konrad; Lansingh, Van Charles; Kempen, John H.; Tapply, Ian; Fernandes, Arthur G.; Cicinelli, Maria Vittoria; Arrigo, Alessandro; Leveziel, Nicolas; Resnikoff, Serge; Taylor, Hugh R.; Sedighi, Tabassom; Flaxman, Seth; Bikbov, Mukkharram M.; Braithwaite, Tasanee; Bron, Alain; Cheng, Ching-Yu; Del Monte, Monte A.; Ehrlich, Joshua R.; Ellwein, Leon B.; Friedman, David; Furtado, João M.; Gazzard, Gus; George, Ronnie; Hartnet, M. Elizabeth; Jonas, Jost B.; Kahloun, Rim; Khairallah, Moncef; Khanna, Rohit C.; Leasher, Janet; Little, Julie-Anne; Nangia, Vinay; Nowak, Michael A.; Peto, Tunde; Ramulu, Pradeep; Topouzis, Fotis; Tsilimbaris, Mitiadis; Wang, Ya Xing; Wang, Ningli; Bourne, Rupert; Briant, Paul Svitil; Vos, Theo; Abate, Yohannes Habtegiorgis; Abdollahi, Mohammad; Abdollahi, Mozhan; Abebe, Ayele Mamo; Abiodun, Olumide; Aboagye, Richard Gyan; Abrha, Woldu Aberhe; Abualruz, Hasan; Ali, Hiwa Abubaker; Abu-Gharbieh, Eman; Aburuz, Salahdein; Adal, Tadele Girum Girum; Adane, Mesafint Molla; Addo, Isaac Yeboah; Adnani, Qorinah Estiningtyas Sakilah; Afzal, Muhammad Sohail; Aghamiri, Shahin; Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku; Ahmad, Aqeel; Ahmad, Sajjad; Ahmadi, Ali; Ahmed, Ayman; Ahmed, Haroon; Alfaar, Ahmad Samir; Ali, Abid; Ali, Syed Shujait Shujait; Altaf, Awais; Amu, Hubert; Androudi, Sofia; Anguita, Rodrigo; Anil, Abhishek; Anvari, Saeid; Anyasodor, Anayochukwu Edward; Appiah, Francis; Arabloo, Jalal; Arafat, Mosab; Areda, Damelash; Arefnezhad, Reza; Aregaw, Brhane Berhe; Asgedom, Akeza Awealom; Ashraf, Tahira; Athari, Seyyed Shamsadin; Atinafu, Bantalem Tilaye Tilaye; Atout, Maha Moh’d Wahbi; Atreya, Alok; Ayatollahi, Haleh; Azzam, Ahmed Y.; Babamohamadi, Hassan; Bagherieh, Sara; Bahurupi, Yogesh; Baig, Atif Amin; Banik, Biswajit; Bardhan, Mainak; Basu, Saurav; Batra, Kavita; Bayileyegn, Nebiyou Simegnew; Bazvand, Fatemeh; Beyene, Addisu Shunu; Bhagat, Devidas S.; Bhagavathula, Akshaya Srikanth; Bhardwaj, Pankaj; Bhaskar, Sonu; Bhatti, Jasvinder Singh; Bikbov, Mukharram; Bineshfar, Niloufar; Birck, Marina G.; Bitra, Veera R.; Braithwaite, Tasanee; Burkart, Katrin; Bustanji, Yasser; Butt, Zahid A.; Caetano dos Santos, Florentino Luciano; Cámera, Luis Alberto; Carneiro, Vera L.A.; Cenderadewi, Muthia; Chandrasekar, Eeshwar K.; Chattu, Vijay Kumar; Chitranshi, Nitin; Chopra, Hitesh; Chu, Dinh-Toi; Coberly, Kaleb; Coelho, João M.; Cruz-Martins, Natália; Dadras, Omid; Dai, Xiaochen; Das, Subasish; Dascalu, Ana Maria; Dashti, Mohsen; Dastmardi, Maedeh; Demessa, Berecha Hundessa; Demisse, Biniyam; Dereje, Diriba; Derese, Awoke Masrie Asrat; Dervenis, Nikolaos; Devanbu, Vinoth Gnana Chellaiyan; Do, Thanh Chi; Do, Thao Huynh Phuong; Dos Santos Figueiredo, Francisco Winter; Dziedzic, Arkadiusz Marian; Edinur, Hisham Atan; Efendi, Ferry; Ehrlich, Joshua R.; Ekholuenetale, Michael; Ekundayo, Temitope Cyrus; El Sayed, Iman; Elhadi, Muhammed; Emamian, Mohammad Hassan; Emamverdi, Mehdi; Etemadimanesh, Azin; Fagbamigbe, Adeniyi Francis; Fahim, Ayesha; Farrokhpour, Hossein; Fatehizadeh, Ali; Feizkhah, Alireza; Ferro Desideri, Lorenzo; Fetensa, Getahun; Fischer, Florian; Forouhari, Ali; Foschi, Matteo; Fowobaje, Kayode Raphael; Gaidhane, Abhay Motiramji; Gandhi, Aravind P.; Gebregergis, Miglas W.W.; Gebrehiwot, Mesfin; Gebremariam, Brhane; Gerema, Urge; Ghassemi, Fariba; Ghozy, Sherief; Golechha, Mahaveer; Goleij, Pouya; Goulart, Bárbara Niegia Garcia; Guan, Shi-Yang; Gudisa, Zewdie; Gupta, Sapna; Gupta, Veer Bala; Gupta, Vivek Kumar; Haj-Mirzaian, Arvin; Halimi, Aram; Hallaj, Shahin; Hamidi, Samer; Harorani, Mehdi; Hasani, Hamidreza; Heyi, Demisu Zenbaba; Hoan, Nguyen Quoc; Holla, Ramesh; Hong, Sung Hwi; Hosseinzadeh, Mehdi; Hu, Chengxi; Huang, John J.; Huynh, Hong-Han; Ibitoye, Segun Emmanuel; Ilic, Irena M.; Immurana, Mustapha; Islam, Md. Rabiul; Islam, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful; Iwu, Chidozie Declan; Jacob, Louis; Jairoun, Ammar Abdulrahman; Janodia, Manthan Dilipkumar; Jayaram, Shubha; Jindal, Har Ashish; Jokar, Mohammad; Joseph, Nitin; Joshua, Charity Ehimwenma; Kadashetti, Vidya; Kalankesh, Laleh R.; Kalhor, Rohollah; Kamath, Sagarika; Kandel, Himal; Kantar, Rami S.; Karaye, Ibraheem M.; Kasraei, Hengameh; Kaup, Soujanya; Kaur, Navjot; Kaur, Rimple Jeet; Kayode, Gbenga A.; Khader, Yousef Saleh; Khajuria, Himanshu; Khalilov, Rovshan; Khatib, Mahalaqua Nazli; Kisa, Adnan; Kosen, Soewarta; Koyanagi, Ai; Krishan, Kewal; Kulimbet, Mukhtar; Kumar, Nithin; Kurmi, Om P.; Lahariya, Chandrakant; Lan, Tuo; Landires, Iván; Leasher, Janet L.; Lee, Munjae; Lee, Seung Won; Lee, Wei-Chen; Lim, Stephen S.; Little, Julie-Anne; Mahajan, Preetam Bhalchandra; Maharaj, Sandeep B.; Mahmoudi, Alireza; Mahmoudi, Razzagh; Malhotra, Kashish; Mallhi, Tauqeer Hussain; Mansouri, Vahid; Manu, Emmanuel; Marzo, Roy Rillera; Maugeri, Andrea; McAlinden, Colm; Mebratu, Wondwosen; Mekene Meto, Tesfahun; Meng, Yang; Mersha, Abera M.; Mestrovic, Tomislav; Minh, Le Huu Nhat; Misganaw, Awoke; Mishra, Manish; Misra, Sanjeev; Mohamed, Nouh Saad; Mohammadi, Soheil; Mohammed, Mustapha; Mojiri-forushani, Hoda; Mokdad, Ali H.; Molavi Vardanjani, Hossein; Moni, Mohammad Ali; Montazeri, Fateme; Moradi, Maryam; Motappa, Rohith; Mousavi, Parsa; Mulita, Admir; Murray, Christopher J.L.; Naik, Ganesh R.; Naik, Gurudatta; Nargus, Shumaila; Natto, Zuhair S.; Nayak, Biswa Prakash; Negaresh, Mohammad; Negash, Hadush; Nguyen, Dang H.; Nguyen, Phat Tuan; Nguyen, Van Thanh; Niazi, Robina Khan; Okonji, Osaretin Christabel; Olagunju, Andrew T.; Olatubi, Matthew Idowu; Ordak, Michal; Osuagwu, Uchechukwu Levi; Otstavnov, Nikita; Owolabi, Mayowa O.; Padubidri, Jagadish Rao; Pandey, Ashok; Panos, Georgios D.; Pardhan, Shahina; Park, Seoyeon; Patel, Jay; Pawar, Shrikant; Peprah, Prince; Petcu, Ionela-Roxana; Peyman, Alireza; Pham, Hoang Tran; Pourazizi, Mohsen; Quan, Nguyen Khoi; Rahim, Fakher; Rahimi-Movaghar, Vafa; Rahman, Mohammad Hifz Ur; Rajaa, Sathish; Ramasamy, Shakthi Kumaran; Ramasubramani, Premkumar; Ranjan, Shubham; Rashidi, Mohammad-Mahdi; Rath, Rama Shankar; Rauf, Annisa Utami; Rawaf, Salman; Rayati Damavandi, Amirmasoud; Redwan, Elrashdy Moustafa Mohamed; Roy, Priyanka; Pramanik, Koushik Roy; Saadatian, Zahra; Sabour, Siamak; Saddik, Basema; Saeed, Umar; Safi, Sare; Safi, Sher Zaman; Saghazadeh, Amene; Sharif-Askari, Fatemeh Saheb; Sahebkar, Amirhossein; Sahraian, Mohammad Ali; Sakshaug, Joseph W.; Saleh, Mohamed A.; Samadzadeh, Sara; Samodra, Yoseph Leonardo; Samuel, Vijaya Paul; Samy, Abdallah M.; Saravanan, Aswini; Selvaraj, Siddharthan; Semnani, Farbod; Senapati, Sabyasachi; Sethi, Yashendra; Seyedi, Seyed Arsalan; Seylani, Allen; Shaheen, Amira A.; Shahid, Samiah; Shahwan, Moyad Jamal; Shaikh, Masood Ali; Sham, Sunder; Shamim, Muhammad Aaqib; Shannawaz, Mohammed; Shashamo, Bereket Beyene; Shayan, Maryam; Shittu, Aminu; Shiue, Ivy; Shivakumar, K.M.; Shorofi, Seyed Afshin; Sibhat, Migbar Mekonnen; Siddig, Emmanuel Edwar; Silva, Juan Carlos; Singh, Jasvinder A.; Singh, Paramdeep; Skiadaresi, Eirini; Solomon, Yonatan; Sousa, Raúl A.R.C.; Sreeramareddy, Chandrashekhar T.; Starodubov, Vladimir I.; Subramaniam, Mohana Devi; Susanty, Sri; Tabatabaei, Seyyed Mohammad; Taye, Birhan Tsegaw; Teklay, Gebrehiwot; Temsah, Mohamad-Hani; Terefa, Dufera Rikitu; Ticoalu, Jansje Henny Vera; Toma, Temesgen Mohammed; Tsatsakis, Aristidis; Tsegay, Guesh Mebrahtom; Tumurkhuu, Munkhtuya; Tusa, Biruk Shalmeno; Ty, Sree Sudha; Ubah, Chukwudi S.; Umair, Muhammad; Umar, Tungki Pratama; Valizadeh, Rohollah; Van den Eynde, Jef; Watson, Stephanie Louise; Wonde, Tewodros Eshete; Wondimagegn, Guadie Sharew; Xiao, Hong; Yao, Yao; Nia, Iman Yazdani; Yiğit, Arzu; Yismaw, Yazachew; Yon, Dong Keon; Yonemoto, Naohiro; You, Yuyi; Yu, Chuanhua; Zastrozhin, Mikhail Sergeevich; Zhao, Hanqing; Ziafati, Makan; Zielińska, Magdalena; Zikarg, Yossef Teshome; Zoladl, Mohammad; Steinmetz, Jaimie D.; Bourne, Rupert (Springer Nature, 2024-08)
    BACKGROUND : To estimate global and regional trends from 2000 to 2020 of the number of persons visually impaired by cataract and their proportion of the total number of vision-impaired individuals. METHODS : A ...
  • Global health in foreign policy in South Africa – evidence from state actors 
    Modisenyane, Moeketsi; Senkubuge, Flavia; Hendricks, S.J.H. (Stephen) (Public Health Foundation Bangladesh, 2016-09-20)
    AIM : There are currently debates about why South Africa integrates global health into its foreign policy agendas. This study aimed at exploring motivation and interests’ South African policy actors pursue to advance global ...
  • A global review of the impact on women from men’s alcohol drinking : the need for responding with a gendered lens 
    Wilson, Ingrid M.; Willoughby, Bree; Tanyos, Amany; Graham, Kathryn; Walker, Mary; Laslett, Anne-Marie; Ramsoomar, Leane (Taylor and Francis, 2024)
    BACKGROUND : Global evidence shows that men’s harmful alcohol use contributes to intimate partner violence (IPV) and other harms. Yet, interventions that target alcohol-related harms to women are scarce. Quantitative ...
  • 'Going virtual' : innovative online faculty development during COVID-19 
    Maart, R.; Rhoda, A.; Titus, S.; Manning, Dianne M. (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2021-09)
    In response to the national lockdown in South Africa due to the COVID‑19 pandemic, educational institutions adapted their programmes to meet the challenges of the disruption in teaching and learning. In line with this need, ...
  • Governing a pandemic : a case study of South Africa’s coordination and management structures used to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic 
    Moonasar, Devanand; Leonard, E.; Naidoo, R.; Pillay, Y.; Ramkrishna, W.; Furumele, T.; Ramadan, O.P.; Pillay, A.; Mayet, N. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2022-05)
    During a public health emergency, coordination and management are essential for ensuring timeous, decisive, and harmonised leadership. In this paper, the governance structures utilised in South Africa (SA) during the ...
  • Growth forms of Gardnerella spp. and Lactobacillus spp. on vaginal cells 
    Jung, Hyun-Sul; Ehlers, Marthie Magdaleen; Peters, Remco P.H.; Lombaard, Hennie; Redelinghuys, Mathys J.; Bezuidenhoudt, Johanna E.; Kock, Marleen M. (Frontiers Media, 2020-02)
    Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a common vaginal condition in women of reproductive age. During BV development, BV-associated bacteria may form a polymicrobial biofilm, which predispose women to recurrent BV. The aim of the ...
  • Health care providers’ perceptions of using misoprostol in the treatment of incomplete abortion in Malawi 
    Wagenheim, Cecilie Annette; Savosnick, Hedda; Chakhame, Bertha Magreta; Darj, Elisabeth; Kafulafula, Ursula Kalimembe; Maluwa, Alfred; Odland, Jon Oyvind; Odland, Maria Lisa (BMC, 2022-12-03)
    BACKGROUND : In Malawi, abortion is only legal to save a pregnant woman’s life. Treatment for complications after unsafe abortions has a massive impact on the already impoverished health care system. Even though manual ...
  • Health effects of climate change in Africa : a call for an improved implementation of prevention measures 
    Moyo, Enos; Nhari, Leroy Gore; Moyo, Perseverance; Murewanhema, Grant; Dzinamarira, Tafadzwa (Elsevier, 2023-06)
    The world’s climate, particularly in Africa, has changed substantially during the past few decades, contributed by several human activities. Africa is one of the continents that is most vulnerable to climate change globally. ...
  • Health impact of air pollution from shipping in the baltic sea : effects of different spatial resolutions in Sweden 
    Mwase, Nandi Sisasenkosi; Ekström, Alicia; Jonson, Jan Eiof; Svensson, Erik; Jalkanen, Jukka-Pekka; Wichmann, Janine; Molnár, Peter; Stockfelt, Leo (MDPI, 2020-11)
    In 2015, stricter regulations to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions and particulate air pollution from shipping were implemented in the Baltic Sea. We investigated the effects on population exposure to particles <2.5 µm ...
  • Health personnel retention strategies in a peri-urban community : an exploratory study on Epworth, Zimbabwe 
    Taderera, Bernard Hope; Hendricks, S.J.H. (Stephen); Pillay, Yogan (BioMed Central, 2016-04-27)
    BACKGROUND : The need to retain health personnel is a policy challenge undermining health system reform of the 21st century. The need to resolve this global health workforce crisis resulted in the First Global Forum on ...
  • Health risk assessment of heavy metals in drinking water leaching through improperly managed dumpsite waste in Kurata, Ijoko, Sango area of Ogun State, Nigeria 
    Ojekunle, Olusheyi Zacchaeus; Rasaki, Aminat; Taiwo, Adewale Matthew; Adegoke, Kayode A.; Balogun, Mujeeb Adeyemi; Ojekunle, Oluseyi Opeyemi; Okehi Anumah, Abdulraheem; Ibrahim, Asiata Omotayo; Adeyemi, Adewale Adekunle (Elsevier, 2022-08)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Health risk assessment of informal food vendors : a comparative study in Johannesburg, South Africa 
    Sepadi, Maasago Mercy; Nkosi, Vusumuzi (MDPI, 2023-02)
    Please read abstract in article.