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Available courses
Climate change and health in South African
This CPD activity is aimed at sensitising healthcare professions to climate change impacts on health and healthcare systems
Keywords: climate change; health; South Africa; sustainable development; healthcare systems strengthening.
Intimate partner violence in a Nigerian rural community: its burden and determinants
Intimate partner violence impacts on women’s sexual and reproductive health autonomy, hence knowledge of the determinants will be valuable in reducing its prevalence.
Keywords: Intimate partner violence, burden, sociocultural determinants
Red blood cell transfusion at a hospital providing level 1 and 2 services
This aim of this study was to describe blood transfusion practice and explore doctors’ attitudes towards transfusion.
Keywords: Red blood cell; transfusion thresholds; practice; attitudes
Perceptions of strategies – primary health care professional nurses and primary health care nurse managers
This review illustrates primary health care professional nurses and primary health care nurse managers’ perceptions of the developed strategies to facilitate caring for patients in primary health care clinics. The strategies become important in enabling primary health care professional nurses to …
Non-communicable Diseases- Knowledge of prevention and control among Primary Health Care workers
The study compared the level of knowledge of Primary Health Care workers on prevention and control of selected non-communicable diseases in rural and urban local government areas of a South Western State in Nigeria. Keywords: Non-communicable diseases, knowledge, Primary Health Care, health care wo…
Decentralising paediatric hearing screening services
This study compared a centralised tertiary model of hearing healthcare to a decentralised model through district hearing screening for children in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.
Keywords: Decentralisation; hearing healthcare; oto-acoustic emissions
Decoding adolescent repeat pregnancies
The risk factors of and interventions for adolescent repeat pregnancies
Keywords:
Adolescent repeat pregnancy, risk factors, medical, psychosocial
Bereavement overload: Coping strategies of healthcare workers
The effect of bereavement overload and coping mechanisms on health care workers in a hospital.
Keywords:
Bereavement overload, coping mechanisms, grief, compassion fatigue
Rational planning for community based service delivery in an integrated district health system
A COPC planning toolkit has been developed to model the creation of a community-based tier in an integrated district health system.
Keywords:
community-based service scenarios, ICT-enabled community oriented primary care, modelling, cost effectiveness