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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH)) by Title
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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, 2018)Background: In developing countries hunger, poverty and malnutrition are constraint to learning. Unfortunately, the primary school children are the most affected group due to their vulnerability. Implementation of school ...
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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, 2018)Tobacco use is the world’s leading preventable cause of illness and death and the most important risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly cardiovascular and chronic respiratory diseases (heart attack, ...
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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, 2016)Research studies have shown that both indoor and air pollution are the main risk factors for the burden of respiratory diseases, elderly people and the children are mostly affected. Various risk factors have been associated ...
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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, 2019)Even though there is substantial literature on studies which pool survey data, it is still not clear which are the most efficient methodologies for pooling data from different surveys. For example, it is important to know ...
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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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