Quality health care includes availability, accessibility, affordability, acceptability, competence of health care providers, reducing waiting time, ensuring privacy and confidentiality, ensuring safety and security, and ...
Objectives
To determine the prevalence and survival rate; and to assess the maternal risk
factors as well as complications of prematurity, associated with the mortality of very
low and extremely low birth weight ...
Virological failure occurs when the viral load fails to supress to undetectable limit and immunological failure is when the immune system fails to improve with the CD4 count remaining low on clients on antiretroviral drugs. ...
Introduction: Exclusive breastfeeding for six months, with introduction of appropriate complimentary feeding at six months, continuing to 2 years and beyond comes highly recommended. Although breastfeeding rates have ...
Background: School children are mostly affected by diarrhoeal and respiratory infections and these are related to lack of proper hand washing. For children to be able to practice proper hand washing, they must have the ...
Lekoloana, Matome Abel(University of Limpopo, 2019)
The quality of mortality data in South Africa has been questioned because of the high percentage of deaths reported to be due to ill-defined causes. We sought to assess the level of knowledge of doctors on the International ...
BACKGROUND The measurement of the refractive end point plays a major role in the assessment of the refractive status of the patient. Currently, there are very few techniques if not one that can measure the refractive end ...
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the benefit of tourism development in Thulamela Municipality with specific reference to Mphaphuli Nature Reserve and Phiphidi Waterfalls. It was found out that the two ...
Background: Employee morale is a critical factor in any organization either be
locally and or globally and Botswana is no exception. Mental health nurses have
been considered professionals that assist people to regain a ...
Introduction: During mid-November 2008, eleven acute watery diarrhoea cases with the suspicion of cholera like symptoms were detected by a diarrhoea surveillance system at Musina Hospital in Vhembe district - Limpopo ...
Cervical cancer is a serious public health problem in both developed and developing countries. It is said to be the leading cause of death for women from developing countries as compared to other types of cancers. The aim ...
The Department of health, Limpopo province in recent years has developed eye care services in public hospitals. It is reckoned that people living in the rural areas would benefit significantly from the cheaper public eye ...
Introduction and background
The shortage of human resources in rural areas remains a crisis, especially in subSaharan Africa, affecting rural primary health centres. The purpose of this study was to identify and describe ...
Introduction: Health care workers have a pivotal role in the management of Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and their well-being is consequently crucial as it could impact ...
Introduction: Diabetes mellitus has become a worldwide problem that is continuing to rise resulting in morbidity and mortality in developing countries.Finland developed the FINDRISC tool. Canada uses the Finnish Diabetes ...
Haribhai, Asha(University of Limpopo (Medunsa Campus), 2011)
Aim of the study
To investigate whether the Premier Soccer League Teams (PSL), in South Africa, have an
‘ideal’ medical team structure
Objectives of the study
Identification of medical professionals involved in the PSL ...