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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 ... -
Have milk, maas or yoghurt every day: a food–based dietary guideline for South Africa
(MedPharm Publications, 2013)A national working group recently reached consensus that a guideline message for milk consumption should form part of the set of revised food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) for South Africa. The message was formulated ... -
Health behaviour change of people living with HIV after a comprehensive community-based HIV stigma reduction intervention in North-West Province in South Africa
(2014-12-12)All over the world, health behaviour is considered a complex, far reaching and powerful phenomenon. People’s lives are influenced by their own or others’ health behaviour on a daily basis. Whether it has to do with smoking, ... -
The health benefits and constraints of exercise therapy for wheelchair users: a clinical commentary
(AOSIS, 2017)Background: There are approximately 1 billion people living with chronic lower limb disability, many of whom are wheelchair users. Objectives: Review cardiometabolic and neuromuscular risk profiles of wheelchair ... -
Health care professionals' perspectives on the requirements facilitating the roll-out of kangaroo mother care in South Africa
(Elsevier, 2016)Background Using best evidence to inform practice is the cornerstone of quality patient care, and requires spread, uptake, implementation and roll-out of best practices. Kangaroo mother care (KMC) was used as a best ... -
Health care seeking behaviour of newly diagnosed HIV infected people from rural and urban communities in the North West Province of South Africa
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Health effects of overweight and obesity in 195 countries over 25 years
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2017)BACKGROUND Although the rising pandemic of obesity has received major attention in many countries, the effects of this attention on trends and the disease burden of obesity remain uncertain. METHODS We analyzed data ... -
The health impact of schoolbag carriage: a systematic review (2007-2016)
(LAM Publications, 2017)Heavy schoolbag carriage precipitating musculoskeletal pain and deviant vertebral posture has become a serious concern. The objectives of the study were to: (i) identify common anatomical sites of pain due to heavy schoolbag ... -
A health profile associated with excessive alcohol use independently predicts aortic stiffness over 10 years in black South Africans
(Wolters Kluwer, 2017)Objective: Black populations exhibit higher arterial stiffness than whites and suffer a disproportionate burden of cardiovascular disease. It is therefore important to identify modifiable health behaviours predicting large ... -
Health-related fitness, body composition and physical activity status among adolescent learners: the PAHL study
(Sabinet, 2012)Physical inactivity (PI) is found to be a major contributor to the high incidence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents. As such, PI was significantly related to risk factors of cardiovascular disease. ... -
Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
(Elsevier, 2017)Background National levels of personal health-care access and quality can be approximated by measuring mortality rates from causes that should not be fatal in the presence of effective medical care (ie, amenable ... -
Hear their voices: self-configuration experiences of learners with mild learning difficulties within the learner-teacher relationship
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Within the learner–teacher relationship, learners receive messages of who they are in the eyes of the teacher and in this way their self-configuration is shaped by the interactions with their teacher. To understand their ... -
Heart rate variability and recovery as predictors of elite, African, male badminton players’ performance levels
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)The aim of this study was to determine whether pre-match, in-match, resting and post-match heart rate variability (HRV) as well as resting and post-match heart rate recovery (HRR) can serve as significant predictors of ... -
Heart rate variability and recovery as predictors of elite, African, male badminton players’ performance levels
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)The aim of this study was to determine whether pre-match, in-match, resting and post-match heart rate variability (HRV) as well as resting and post-match heart rate recovery (HRR) can serve as significant predictors of ... -
Heavy drinking and interpersonal violence at and around different alcohol outlets in the North West Province, South Africa
(Stellenbosch University, 2013)South Africa has one of the highest per capita alcohol consumption levels in the world, with social norms dictating that when people drink, then consumption is heavy. On the other hand, South Africa also faces a globally ... -
Herb-drug pharmacokinetic interactions: transport and metabolism of indinavir in the presence of selected herbal products
(MDPI, 2015)Patients receiving anti-retroviral drug treatment are sometimes simultaneously taking herbal remedies, which may result in pharmacokinetic herb-drug interactions. This study aimed to determine if pharmacokinetic interactions ... -
Herbal hepatotoxicity: current status, examples, and challenges
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)Introduction: Herbal medicines have commonly been considered safe by the general public due to their natural origin and long history of traditional uses. In contrast to this belief, many plants produce toxic substances as ... -
"Here we help each other": sense of community of people subjected to forced removals
(Taylor & Francis; NISC, 2013)This study examined the sense of community of people with experience of forced removals in a South African setting. The participants were 200 – 108 men (54%) and 92 women (46%) between 18 and 61 years of age and selected ... -
Heterologous expression of a gene that codes for Pg8, a scorpion toxin of Parabuthus granulatus, capable of generating protecting antibodies in mice
(Elsevier, 2009)A novel peptide named Pg8 was purified from the venom of the South African scorpion Parabuthus granulatus and its primary structure was determined. It contains 63 amino acid residues tightly folded by 4 disulfide bridges. ... -
High blood pressure in Sub–Saharan Africa: why prevention, detection, and control are urgent and important
(Wiley–blackwell, 2015)HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE (BP) IS THE LEADING RISK FOR DEATH AND DISABILITY GLOBALLY ACCORDING TO THE 2010 GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE STUDY "In 2010, hypertension in Sub–Saharan Africa was the leading risk for death, ...
