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(Elsevier, 2018-09)What drives policy reform after long periods of policy inertia? What factors shape the effectiveness of policy implementation following reform decisions? These questions increasingly concern the international donor and ...
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(Water Research Council, 2007-06)Promoting household food security and reducing malnutrition rates of a growing population with the same amount of water is a challenge facing South African nutritionists and agriculturalists alike. Apart from non-food ...
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(LAM Publications Limited, 2017-10)This study assessed management of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) by healthcare professionals using WHO guidelines in children 6-59 months of age. The study used a quantitative approach and a descriptive design to assess ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012)OBJECTIVE: The objective was to investigate the absolute micronutrient intake and the possibility of micronutrient dilution of added sugar in the diets of an African population in nutritional transition. DESIGN: A ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2013)No abstract available.
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2012)Diabetes self-management education is crucial in diabetes care. Education that is tailored to the needs of the patient is considered the most effective in improving health outcomes. Diet, a critical element of diabetes ...
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(Wiley Open Access, 2022-07)Weight‐for‐age (WFA) growth faltering often precedes severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in children, yet it is often missed during routine growth monitoring. Automated interpretation of WFA growth within electronic ...
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(Elsevier, 2014-02)Nutrient content and potential contribution of one average portion towards nutritional requirements (recommended dietary allowance; RDA) of eight African leafy vegetables (ALVs) was determined. Compared to dark-green ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2019-05-14)OBJECTIVE : The focus of interventions for adults living with HIV (ALH) in Nigeria has been mostly on prevention and provision of antiretroviral therapy (ART) with little consideration to nutrition-related matters. ...
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(Water Research Council, 2007-06)In South Africa, both under- and over-nutrition exist. At national level, more than half of the females are either overweight or obese, while children suffer from under-nutrition. Childhood malnutrition starts early in ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012)The case study has been adapted from the original case discussion at the South African Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (SASPEN) 2011 Congress held at Diep-in-die-Berg, Pretoria. A summarised discussion of the ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017)Nutrition screening triggers entry into the nutrition care process.1 Screening has informally been described as simple, quick or low-intensity proxy for more complex procedures. More formal definitions for the nutrition ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2008-09)OBJECTIVE: To determine if there was a relationship between CD4 cell count, nutritional status and self-reported quality of life (QoL) in HIV-infected adults. DESIGN: Descriptive study in the quantitative research ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2014)Nutrition care is not always recognised as a patient safety issue. This article explores the origins of the patient safety initiative and seeks to identify possible connections between nutrition care and patient safety. ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2011)Surgery patients are at risk for iatrogenic malnutrition and subsequent deleterious effects. The benefits of nutrition support on patient outcomes have been demonstrated and the possible benefit of perioperative nutrition ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2017-04)As the emerging burden of diet-related non-communicable diseases establishes itself firmly alongside food insecurity and undernutrition in urban centres, nutrition policy research needs to consider in more detail the ...
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(New Media Publishing, 2016-10)The effect of disease related malnutrition can be detrimental on both physical and clinical health, leading to an increased length of hospital stay, morbidity, mortality and increased cost.
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(MDPI, 2023-10): The prevalence of obesity has increased significantly in developing nations over the past decade, particularly among adolescent girls. To assess the scale of this epidemic among female adolescents in South Africa, a ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2016-01)BACKGROUND. Globally, in children the prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing, and this is associated with an increased risk of non-communicable diseases in adulthood. There is a need to examine the growing ...
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(MDPI, 2021-06)Lower resting energy expenditure (REE) may partially explain the disproportionate prevalence of overweight/obesity among black African women. As no previous studies have investigated the REE of Southern African (South. ...
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