Browsing by Subject "Health Sciences"

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    Diversity intervention for health educators : a detailed description of diversity workshops with health educators at UCT
    (2011-12) Ismail, Salma; Steyn, Melissa
    This report is of value to scholars of organisational transformation in post-apartheid South African organisations. Also, diversity practitioners who work in the context of higher education will find this report to be of interest. The diversity workshops were held with academic staff who supervise fourth year medical students' research and health promotion projects in the Public and Primary Health Care Department at the University of Cape Town. These include staff who are site facilitators, lecturers and registrars in the Health Science Faculty. Many of them, except for the site facilitators, who mainly supervise the health promotion projects, have had no training in teaching methodology or educational theory. Therefore, the emphasis of the training was on the supervision of the research (Epidemiology) projects. The supervisors were facing complex challenges in establishing new ways of teaching to support the changing learning environment - small group learning in institutional and community settings, and the increasing diversity of the student body. To enable staff to respond to these challenges an Adult Educator from the Centre of Higher Education and Development was asked to run workshops with staff in which diversity is made an explicit presence in the learning process. This report documents the process of the workshop implementation.
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    Men's use of violence against intimate partners : a study of working men in Cape Town
    (2002) Abrahams, Naeemah
    Violence against women is a universal problem and is widely recognised as a fundamental barrier to women's health and gender equality. Working with men to change their behaviour is increasingly acknowledged as a critical part of the solution to the problem. Data on risk factors that explain men's use of violence have been limited. Such data is required before interventions can be developed. The aims of this study was to describe the prevalence of different types of violence men use against their partners, as well as the risk factors for men's use of such violence. The study was based among men working at three municipalities in Cape Town. A random sample of 1800 names was chosen, from among which 1414 interviews were held. Prevalence estimates and risk factor analyses for use of violence against an intimate partner were done.
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    Scoping review of health system software literature: How has the concept been used?
    (2023) Burger, Nicola; Gilson, Lucy
    Understanding health systems as comprising interacting elements of hardware and software acknowledges health systems as dynamic, complex adaptive systems (CAS). The hardware represents the concrete components of systems, whereas the software represents the elements which influence actions and underpin relationships, such as processes, values and norms. As a specific call for research on health system software was made in 2011, we conducted a qualitative scoping review considering how and for what purpose the concept has been used since that time. As it has remained relatively under-researched, our overall purpose was both to synthesise current knowledge and to generate lessons about how to deepen research on, and understanding of, health system software. The review consisted of two phases: first, all papers which have explicitly used the concept of health system software were mapped; second, we explored how this concept was purposively used within research. The databases Pubmed, Scopus, EBSCOhost, Web of Science and Google Scholar were systematically searched using a strategy developed by a skilled librarian. In Phase 1, data were extracted from 98 papers to understand the scope of this literature. Our analysis revealed that a third of the papers used the software concept rather superficially; a third used it to conceptualise the importance of some software elements; and a third used it in relation to another aspect of health system experience, such as preparedness or resilience. In Phase 2, our analysis confirmed the value of pro-actively using the software concept within studies, demonstrating two patterns of use. However, limited understanding of how to investigate interactions amongst hard and software elements was also revealed. Future health policy and systems research should purposively investigate hardware-software interactions, in order to gain greater understanding of the complex, adaptive nature of health systems.
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    Topics in general surgery: a video series by Dr Juan Klopper
    (2013) Klopper, Juan
    This resource is a collection of Surgery videos created by Dr Juan Klopper. It contains presentations on topics in General Surgery created by Dr Klopper, Registrars and Medical Officers. This is a study resource that aims to assist candidates sitting the South African College of Medicine exam for Surgery. It contains teaching videos and journal articles which cover important and relevant topics for the examinations.