Browsing by Subject "Vulnerable"
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Challenges to disaster risk reduction: a study of stakeholders’ perspectives in Imizamo Yethu, South Africa
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2011)South Africa is a complex and dynamic society, with overwhelming and increasing problems with disaster risk in the vulnerable urban communities in and around its rapidly growing metropolitan centres. The purpose of this ... -
Circumstances contributing to adolescents' vulnerability towards sexual abuse in a rural area
(2014)In rendering child care protection services to adolescents in the Marshite area as a social worker in the Department of Social Development, the researcher recognised that an increased number of adolescents are sexually ... -
The identification of factors contributing to the vulnerability to sexual abuse of orphans in a rural area
(2014)Sexual abuse of children is a major problem in South Africa. There is an increasing number of orphans in urban but also in rural areas of children and orphans who are sexually abused. The researcher experienced in her daily ... -
Prevalence of zinc deficiency among primary school children in a poor peri-urban informal settlement in South-Africa
(AOSIS, 2010)This cross-sectional study assessed the risk of zinc deficiency in randomly selected children, aged between 7 and 11 years, living in a poor, peri-urban informal settlement in South Africa. Dietary intake of 149 respondents ... -
The views of street children on how streetism can be prevented
(North West University, 2014)Streetism is a world-wide, socio-economic problem and vulnerable children continue to migrate to the streets due to personal and contextual reasons. Attempts have been made to prevent streetism however; these interventions ... -
Vulnerability to HIV amongst African people in rural areas : the Thusano project
(North-West University, 2006)Research has outlined numerous factors that impact on HIV risk behaviours of African people. These include a history of sexually transmitted diseases, number of sexually transmitted diseases, number of sexual partners, the ... -
Vulnerable, but invincible? ecosystemic pathways to South African youths' resilience / L.C. Theron
(2013-02-01)The earliest studies of resilience (Anthony & Cohler, 1987; Werner & Smith, 1982) posited that resilient young people were "vulnerable, but invincible" (Werner, 1996) or even "invulnerable" (Anthony & Cohler, 1987). At ...