... reach them; organizing entails arranging and coordinating human, material and information resources aimed at achieving desired goals; leading involves motivating others to achieve organizational ... training programs in medical management These related to the delivery of health care, financial management, organizational management, and legal and ethical considerations [7] Ina survey of American ... that variable This allows one to treat the data as interval data measuring a latent variable, to which parametric statistical tests can be applied Reliability of scales was estimated by assessing...
... Cronbach's alpha a measure of internal consistency–was well within acceptable range for all scales (α > 0.70) Overall, professional nurses inSouthAfrica were marginally dissatisfied (mean 2.935) ... Happel B, Martin T, Pinikahana J: Burnout and Job satisfaction: a comparative study of psychiatric nurses from forensic and mainstream mental health service International Journal of Mental Health ... Hardy MA: Job satisfaction among nursing staff ina military health care facility Military medicine 2000, 165(10):757-761 Nolan M, Nolan J, Grant G: Maintaining nurses' job satisfaction and morale...
... accessing care in rural areas, after adjusting for baseline variables The subgroup analyses selecting only children with all baseline variables available and using WHO stage and WAZ scores, instead ... common in high HIV-prevalence rural areas of SouthAfrica [29] Adult ART programme mortality has also been reported to be higher ina rural South African setting than in urban settings, and was associated ... outcomes on a broad scale are possible in sub-Saharan Africa Improving clinical outcomes and increasing uptake of ART Paediatric treatment is still provided mainly at hospitals due to the availability...
... SouthAfrica 4Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SouthAfrica 5National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, SouthAfrica 6Department ... second-line antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS inSouthAfrica AIDS 2010, 24:915-919 Fox MP, Brennan A, Maskew M, MacPhail P, Sanne I: Using vital registration data to update mortality among patients ... Standard second-line therapy was AZT, didanosine, and lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) [4] Unlike in many other resource-constrained countries, monitoring of viral load is routine inSouthAfrica and...
... to reach data saturation [17] Qualitative approach The rationale for selecting qualitative methods is that previous research inSouthAfrica has predominately focused on quantitative measures ... monitoring and evaluation for performance management are equally important in enhancing service delivery [39] InSouth Africa, van der Merwe et al underscore that strengthening linkages and integrating ... health is much-neglected inSouthAfrica generally, and particularly for women [38] South African women face conditions of poverty, gender inequality and social disadvantage In addition to living...
... [9] Fear of stigmatization as a reason for TB patients’ nonuptake of HIV testing also featured prominently in the findings of a qualitative study in Durban, SouthAfrica by Daftary et al in 2007 ... care Generally speaking, program managers are responsible for developing and maintaining successful TB and HIV/AIDS control programs, in addition to securing financial and organizational support ... and SouthAfrica [14] include lack of nursing staff, lack of space, increased workload, and work-related stress, including stress experienced by breaking bad news and handling ethical dilemmas...
... extensively in Europe than in Africa, with Japan, USA and China entering the market recently The PV market has not grown to expected levels inSouthAfrica other than a few rural or far off-grid solar ... are listed in Table Nominal interest and inflation rates were obtained from Statistics SouthAfrica [20] Table Economic factors and cost of components for base-case scenario Economic factor and ... In contrast, parametric sensitivity analysis also known as local sensitivity analysis is used to evaluate the response to a change ina single input, holding all other inputs constant [26] Parametric...
... Bay, which takes about an hour to get to from Cape Town Kalk Bay is a pleasant seaside resort for the inhabitants of the colony, the air being regarded as particularly invigorating The remaining ... entertained by large classes of Her Majesty's subjects inSouthAfrica I cannot conclude without acknowledging the aid I have derived from the Statistical information contained in the "Argus Annual," ... saw an immense number of natives, all appearing lively, cheerful, and happy A large number were playing at cards (they are great gamblers), and others amusing themselves in various ways No intoxicating...
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... of RA in low-medium income countries In one study by Mody et al [5] in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, of mainly indigent Indian and Black South Africans with RA, pain, stiffness and financial difficulties ... on a typical day, costs associated with having arthritis and income sources available, social relations and social involvement and feelings about quality of life and satisfaction The participants ... living in Soweto, SouthAfrica Soweto is a large township established as a dormitory town to house Blacks during the years of apartheid inSouthAfrica The sample size was larger than what would...
... antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has increased dramatically, but the majority of those in need remain untreated, especially in sub-Saharan Africa With more than five million individuals living with HIV and ... Lethu Clinical Cohort is a prospective clinical cohort of adults initiating HAART in Johannesburg, SouthAfrica The program is funded by the South African National and Gauteng Department of Health, ... demonstrates that rapid scale-up of HAART using a public health approach in sub-Saharan Africa, essential to confronting the HIV/AIDS epidemic, can be accompanied by high quality care The analysis...
... this article as: Chu et al.: AIDS-associated Kaposi’s sarcoma is linked to advanced disease and high mortality ina primary care HIV programme inSouthAfrica Journal of the International AIDS ... Prevalence in the Western Cape, Cape Town 2006 Krown SE, Testa MA, Huang J: AIDS-related Kaposi’s sarcoma: prospective validation of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group staging classification AIDS Clinical ... three primary care HIV clinics in Khayelitsha, a poor township (population c.500,000) located in Cape Town, South Africa, with an adult antenatal prevalence of HIV of 33% [13] Combination ART is...
... study and participated in its design and implementation, final data analysis and draft and final manuscript preparation LC participated in the design of the study, data collection and analysis, ... maize plant sampled at m intervals up to 100 m at Bansvlei and Waterbron and 10 m intervals thereafter at Waterbron (Figure 1) A total of 800 cobs were sampled at Bainsvlei and 1,280 at Waterbron, ... field trials [40-44] Logarithmic transformation of the cross-pollination data revealed a linear correlation between mean crosspollination over distance at individual sites (data not provided) as well...
... including antenatal and TB patients, and was adapted to record STI patients as a separate category Data from the CT register was entered into an Excel database Data were linked to patient identifiers, ... 26:4-10 Matovu JKB, Makumbi FE: Expanding access to voluntary HIV counseling and testing in sub-Saharan Africa: alternative approaches for improving uptake, 2001-2007 Tropical Medicine and International ... utilisation of clinical and lay staff Retraining of nurses and lay counselors may also be necessary so as to streamline and integrate HIV testing more effectively HIV testing rates could be increased...
... including antenatal and TB patients, and was adapted to record STI patients as a separate category Data from the CT register was entered into an Excel database Data were linked to patient identifiers, ... 26:4-10 Matovu JKB, Makumbi FE: Expanding access to voluntary HIV counseling and testing in sub-Saharan Africa: alternative approaches for improving uptake, 2001-2007 Tropical Medicine and International ... utilisation of clinical and lay staff Retraining of nurses and lay counselors may also be necessary so as to streamline and integrate HIV testing more effectively HIV testing rates could be increased...
... palliative care in sub-Saharan Africa is the lack of data to inform service provision [10,18] Palliative care research inAfrica has predominantly focussed on opioid availability and physical ... life index PALLIAT MED 1998, 12:231-244 Namisango E, Katabira E, Karamagi C, Baguma P: Validation of the Missoula-Vitas Quality-of-Life Index among patients with advanced AIDS in urban Kampala, ... MVQOLI in its current format Limitations Our study may have overestimated QOL in patients receiving palliative care in sub-Saharan AfricaSouthAfrica and Uganda, where this study was conducted, are...
... Identifying “cool” capital inflows Rather than stepping into the market on a regular basis, one option might be for the SARB to wait until SouthAfrica enjoyed capital inflows and to make an assessment ... -2- The Volatility of Capital Flows inSouth Africa: Some Empirical Observations I SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS In the past several years, SouthAfrica has taken a number of steps, such as budget-deficit ... public finances have been brought firmly under control, an inflation-targeting regime is now in place, and the exchange rate has been allowed to float with a significant gain in external competitiveness...
... 2007 16:38 Industrialisation and race inSouthAfrica 283 broke away from the ANC in 1958 and formed the Pan-African Congress (PAC), rejecting alliance with non-African organisations In March 1960, ... by associating with it the Coloured and Asian people; they gained electoral representation ina tricameral parliament in 1983 and many moved towards the National Party as African power became a ... than either African townsmen or the reserve population, earning an average wage from all sources of £20 a year in the late 1930s Although goldmining was vital to South African industrialisation,...
... reproductive health See U.S Agency for International Development (USAID), South Africa: Fact Sheet,” http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan _africa/ countries/ southafrica/southafrica_fs.pdf In addition, ... is legal inSouth Africa, according to the Choice of Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1996 Thu-Ha Dinh, “Impact of the National PMTCT Program Measured at Six Weeks Postpartum inSouth Africa, 2010” ... monitoring, and evaluation; and promoting research and innovation Other than PEPFAR, the U.S health program inSouthAfrica includes some $13 million for TB and $1.5 million for family planning and...