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Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
(Elsevier, 2018)Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017 comparative risk assessment (CRA) is a comprehensive approach to risk factor quantification that offers a useful tool for synthesising ... -
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
(Elsevier, 2017)Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of risk factor exposure and attributable burden of disease. By providing estimates over a long ... -
Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE), 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
(Elsevier, 2016)Background Healthy life expectancy (HALE) and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) provide summary measures of health across geographies and time that can inform assessments of epidemiological patterns ... -
Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
(Elsevier, 2017)Background Measurement of changes in health across locations is useful to compare and contrast changing epidemiological patterns against health system performance and identify specific needs for resource allocation ... -
Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
(Elsevier, 2018)Background How long one lives, how many years of life are spent in good and poor health, and how the population's state of health and leading causes of disability change over time all have implications for policy, planning, ... -
Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all–cause mortality, and cause–specifi c mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
(Elsevier, 2016)Background Improving survival and extending the longevity of life for all populations requires timely, robust evidence on local mortality levels and trends. The Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study (GBD 2015) provides ... -
Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
(Elsevier, 2017)Background Detailed assessments of mortality patterns, particularly age-specific mortality, represent a crucial input that enables health systems to target interventions to specific populations. Understanding how all-cause ... -
GLP in safety pharmacology studies: report card after 15 years
(Elsevier, 2017)The pivotal role of safety pharmacology in the safety testing of new drugs is now well established, having received a large impetus through the regulatory requirement of this type of study and the appearance of the ICHS7A ... -
GLP-1 receptor agonists have a sustained stimulatory effect on corticosterone release after chronic treatment
(Cambridge Univ Press, 2015)Objective: Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists are a new group of antidiabetic medications quickly gaining popularity. We aimed to examine behavioural and neuroendocrine changes following chronic treatment ... -
Glycaemic control improves fibrin network characteristics in type 2 diabetes: a purified fibrinogen model
(Thieme, 2008)Diabetic subjects have been shown to have altered fibrin network structures.One proposed mechanism for this is non-enzymatic glycation of fibrinogen due to high blood glucose.We investigated whether glycaemic control would ... -
Greater cardiovascular reactivity to a cold stimulus is due to higher cold pain perception in black Africans: the sympathetic activity and ambulatory blood pressure in Africans (SABPA) study
(Kluwer, 2012)Objective: To evaluate the role of pain perception and pain stimulus components for blood pressure responses to stress in the black and the white African population with hypertension. Basic methods: Cardiovascular regulation ... -
Grootouers se rolle en belewenisse as hoofversorgers van hulle kleinkinders
(LitNet, 2016)Sosiale veranderinge en die verandering in die tradisionele struktuur van gesinne en families het daartoe aanleiding gegee dat grootouers toenemend die hoofversorgers van hulle kleinkinders word. Die doel van die navorsing ... -
A group of black South Africans' Experience of Telling their Untold Stories about the Apartheid Era
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Growth differentiating factor-15 and its association with traditional cardiovascular risk factors: the African-PREDICT study.
(Elsevier, 2020)Background and aims Growth differentiating factor-15 (GDF-15) is a stress-induced and cardio-protective cytokine, reported to be influenced by a number of cardiovascular risk factors. In older adults, GDF-15 associated ... -
Guideline for conducting critical reviews in psychology research
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)While numerous guidelines for conducting the various types of reviews are available within literature, there is limited information to inform researchers on how to conduct a critical review. We searched the following data ... -
Guidelines for the appropriate referral of child clients for forensic assessments
(South African Society on the Abuse of Children (SAPSAC), 2015)This article reports on a study which aimed at establishing a guideline for social workers in the offices of the Christian Council for Social Services in the Highveld Synod, in order to facilitate proper referral for ... -
Guidelines to facilitate self–care among older persons in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2015)Background: The number of older persons is growing at an alarming rate, yet the South African healthcare sector is not giving this issue the required attention. Moreover, the healthcare sector serves four-fifths of the ... -
Guidelines to minimise human error in South African laboratories with regard to therapeutic drug monitoring
(SMLTSA, 2016)Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) fulfils an important function in patient health in both the public and private healthcare systems. TDM is based on pharmacokinetic principles within the clinical laboratory and several ... -
Guidelines with strategies for enhancement of resilience and psycho-social well-being in professional nurses
(Taylor & Franmcis, 2011)There are currently no guidelines available for enhancement of resilience in professional nurses. This study aims to provide broad guidelines with specific strategies that may enhance resilience and psycho-social well-being ... -
The habits of highly effective community development practitioners
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)This paper is the result of a study aimed at answering the question: ‘What makes effective community development practitioners effective?’ In it, all the articles published over a 10-year period in the Community Development ...