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A case for integrating human rights in public health policy

Author: London, Leslie Date: 2006 In a global environment where human rights and well-being are coming under increasing threat, both from the spectre of terrorism and from the counter-reaction to it,1 and where international governance systems continue to pay lip service to ... Read more
A descriptive study of treatment provision for problem alcohol drinking in adult males in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Saban, Amina ; Morojele, Neo ; London, Leslie Date: 04 Dec 2017 Background: Poor, Black African males are underrepresented as patients in facilities that treat problem drinking in Cape Town, South Africa. Reasons for this remain unclear, but factors such as the kinds of treatment provided, perceptions of ... Read more c b
Acute pesticide poisoning amongst adolescent girls and women in northern Tanzania

Author: Lekei, Elikana ; Ngowi, Aiwerasia V ; Kapeleka, Jones ; London, Leslie Date: 06 Mar 2020 Abstract Background Acute pesticide poisoning (APP) is reported to affect community health worldwide but its burden in Tanzania is unknown particularly in women. This study examines APP involving ... Read more
Additional costs of FAS and PFAS learners in the classroom: An estimate for public primary schools in the Western Cape

Author: Makin, Emma Date: 2018 Background: The Western Cape province of South Africa has the highest recorded prevalence rates of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) in the world. In the last decade rates of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and partial fetal alcohol syndrome ... Read more
An Equity Analysis of the Burden from Alcohol Consumption in South Africa

Author: Correia, Fontes Mayara Date: 2020 Background: Alcohol consumption remains one of the leading contributors to the risk of mortality worldwide. While literature sources are clear that alcohol consumption has a major negative impact on society and which is felt more severely ... Read more
An analysis of alcohol use and possible confounding risk factors for risky sexual behaviour amongst women in the rural Western Cape and urban Gauteng provinces

Author: Khati, Makobetsa Date: 2013 The general aim of this thesis is therefore to analyse alcohol consumption variables and possible confounding risk factors associated with risky sexual behaviour amongst women in the urban city of Tshwane in Gauteng and the rural Western Cape ... Read more
Assessment of anthropometry, academic performance and absenteeism in a comprehensive educational programme on the Cape Flats : a cross-sectional survey with a cohort analysis

Author: Kamminga, Froukje Date: 2007 Christel House South Africa (CHSA) is an independent primary and secondary school that offers a comprehensive educational programme that includes two meals and snacks to children from disadvantaged areas known as the Cape Flats. Anthropometric ... Read more
The association betweeen psychopathology and substance use in young people

Author: Saban, Amina Date: 2011 The co-occurrence of problematic substance use and non-substance use psychopathology is very common in psychiatry, and is generally referred to as comorbidity. The phenomenon has been the subject of debate and widespread research, yet remains ... Read more
The association of depression, impulsivity and suicidal ideation with organophosphate pesticide exposure amongst South African farm workers

Author: Kootbodien, Tahira Date: 2011 The objectives were to evaluate the validity and reliability of four neurobehavioral instruments used in the study and to test three models hypothesised as possible causal pathways between OP exposure and depression, impulsive behaviour and ... Read more
Biological monitoring of workers exposed to pesticides - guidelines for application in field settings

Author: London, Leslie Date: 2011 This guideline was produced for those persons responsible for the maintenance of health and safety measures at agricultural workplaces handling potentially hazardous organophosphate and carbarnate. This guideline has been produced by the ... Read more c b n a
Blackness in a predominantly white academe : a case of the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Health Sciences

Author: Serote, Abraham Chupe Date: 2011 This study examined the lived experience of black registrars (medical residents) in a predominantly white academic medical milieu using the case of the University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa. It foregrounded this ... Read more
A call to advance and translate research into policy on governance, ethics, and conflicts of interest in public health: the GECI-PH network

Author: Nakkash, Rima ; Mialon, Melissa ; Makhoul, Jihad ; Arora, Monika ; Afifi, Rima ; Al Halabi, Abeer ; London, Leslie Date: 25 Jan 2021 Efforts to adopt public health policies that would limit the consumption of unhealthy commodities, such as tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed food products, are often undermined by private sector actors whose profits depend on the sales of ... Read more c b
Case-control study of the association of use of health services by children with behavioural and developmental disorders with prenatal alcohol exposure

Author: Katwan, Elizabeth Date: 2010 Background Prenatal alcohol exposure can result in a range of permanent birth defects known as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), which detrimentally affects the neurodevelopmental, physical, and social ... Read more
Child's play: Exposure to household pesticide use among children in rural, urban and informal areas of South Africa

Author: Tolosana, Sandy ; Rother, Hanna-Andrea ; London, Leslie Date: 2009 Background. As part of a larger dermatological investigation undertaken in 1999 - 2001 involving the Department of Dermatology, Groote Schuur Hospital (Cape Town, South Africa) and Nottingham University (UK), household pesticide use was ... Read more
Childhood behavioral and developmental disorders : association with maternal alcohol consumption and use of health services in Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Katwan, Elizabeth Date: 2010 [Background] Prenatal alcohol exposure can result in a range of permanent birth defects known as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), which detrimentally affects the neurodevelopmental, physical, and social ... Read more
Community health committees as a vehicle for participation in advancing the right to health

Author: Glattstein-Young, Gabriela S Date: 2010 The principles of Primary Health Care guided health system transformation in South Africa where community health committees represent formal structures for participation in health. While there is evidence to suggest that participation can ... Read more
Community participation and the right to health for people with disability: a qualitative study into Health Committees' understanding and practise of their governance role in relation to disability

Author: Abrahams, Theodore William John Date: 2015 BACKGROUND: People with disabilities encounter major barriers that prevent them realising their right to health in South Africa. Health committees are legislated structures for community participation in health at a local level. This study ... Read more
Community systems strengthening project: the successes and challenges perceived and experienced in Gugulethu, South Africa

Author: Mautsa, Tafadzwa Forsina Date: 2022 Community participation is an effective strategy for strengthening health systems and progressively realising health rights. For meaningful community participation to occur, the capacity of formal or informal community organisations and ... Read more
Conceptualising the right to enjoy benefits of scientific progress and exploring its potential to enhance access to effective diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa

Author: Shawa, Remmy Malama Date: 2019 The lack of access to effective diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) remains a persistent global challenge. Human rights arguments for access to treatment mostly focus on the right to health. However, a key challenge ... Read more
Contamination of rural surface and ground water by endosulfan in farming areas of the Western Cape, South Africa

Author: Dalvie, Mohamed ; Cairncross, Eugene ; Solomon, Abdullah ; London, Leslie Date: 2003 BACKGROUND:In South Africa there is little data on environmental pollution of rural water sources by agrochemicals. METHODS: This study investigated pesticide contamination of ground and surface water in three intensive agricultural areas in ... Read more c b

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