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Black South African farm workers beliefs about HIV
(ELSEVIER, 2013)
Black South African farm workers' context of an isolated lifestyle and lack of education and resources might lead to unique beliefs that influence their understanding and behavior regarding HIV infection. An exploration ...
Happy life expectancy and correlates of happiness among older adults in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)
Objectives: This paper examines factors associated with happiness and to estimate happy life expectancy for older people in South Africa.
Methods: The study uses data from the first wave of the Study on Ageing and Adult ...
Time-to-onset of treatment for hypertension and hyperlipidaemia in South African diabetes mellitus patients: a survival analysis using medicine claims data
(Wiley, 2019)
What is known and objective
Hypertension and hyperlipidaemia have high prevalence among diabetics and increase patients’ risk of cardiovascular diseases, ultimately affecting prognosis negatively. Medicine claims data ...
Preparing recreation professionals: graduate attributes expected of entry-level recreation professionals in a South African context
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
The unemployment rate of graduate students in South Africa (SA) has increased more than 4% in the past 10 years. This increase can be ascribed to the current economic situation as well as the unemployability of these ...
Male care-leavers' transfer of social skills from care into independent living in South Africa
(Elsevier, 2017)
Residential child and youth care centres typically provide programmes to develop the social and life skills of the children in care, on the assumption that these skills will equip them for adult life. However, there is ...
Features of home and neighbourhood and the liveability of older South Africans
(Springer, 2015)
While older people live in developing countries,little is known about the relative importance of features of their" communities in influencing their liveability. We examine components of home and neighbourhood ...
Nutrition and economic growth in South Africa: a threshold co–integration approach
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2015)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine asymmetric co-integration effects between nutrition and economic growth for annual South African data from the period 1961-2013.
Design/methodology/approach – The authors ...
Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor and hypertension among black South Africans after 5 years
(Nature Publishing Group, 2015)
Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) is a biomarker that links inflammation with cardiovascular risk. "However, studies linking suPAR and hypertension are scant. First, we determined whether baseline ...
Non-nursing tasks, nursing tasks left undone and job satisfaction among professional nurses in South African hospitals
(Wiley, 2015)
Aim:To investigate the relationship between non-nursing tasks (NNTs), nursing tasks left undone (NTLU) and job satisfaction among professional nurses (PNs) in South Africa (SA).
Background: This study adds to the international ...
Occupational stress and mental well-being in a cohort of black South African teachers
(National Inquiry Services Centre (NISC), 2014)
This study explored levels of occupational stress and mental well-being of a cohort of Black South African teachers. 200
secondary school teachers completed the Teacher Stress Inventory (TSI: Boyle, Borg, Falzon, & ...