Background: The South African occupational health and safety regulations, prescribing risk assessments be conducted by employers, are non-prescriptive with regard to the tools and techniques to be used. Consequently, companies freely adopt the numerous available tools and techniques from which risk manag...
Background: The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) has developed a comprehensive capacity development programme to support the successful implementation of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response 3 rd edition Technical Guidelines (IDSR). As part of the learning pro...
We investigated the perspectives of parents, health workers (HWs) and traditional medical practitioners (TMPs) on immunisation advocacy, knowledge, attitudes and immuni sation practice and ways of improving immunisation uptake in Borno State, North eastern Nigeria. A cross sectional study analysing ...
Background. Scabies is an ectoparasitic, highly contagious skin disease caused by a human itch mite infes tation of the skin, and it is the leading cause of morbidity and disease burden in developing countries. The purpose of this study was to investigate healthcare users' current knowledge and experien...
Adeleye, Qadri Adebayo;
Ahmed, Patience Abaluomo;
Babaniyi, Iretiola Bosede;
Oniyangi, Oluseyi;
Mukhtar-Yola, Mariya;
Adelayo, Adeola Yetunde;
Wey, Yewande Osatohanmwen;
Ononiwu, Uchenna Nneka;
Sanni, Usman Abiola;
Adeleye, Bilkis Bukola;
Audu, Lamidi Isah.
Context: After thirty years of ratifying the child rights convention and nineteen years of the Child Rights Act, implementing child rights instruments remains challenging in Nigeria. Healthcare providers are well positioned to change the current paradigm.
Aim: To examine the knowledge, perception, and pr...
La santé mentale des agriculteurs semble être déterminante dans l’adaptation aux effets des changements climatiques. Cet article fait la synthèse des écrits existant sur lasanté mentale, les facteurs qui y sont associés et l’adaptation des populations face aux effets des variabilit...
Background: South Africa often experiences critically low blood stock levels, making it vulnerable to blood shortages for everyday use and during times of crisis. There are over 3.5 billion smartphone users worldwide and, during 2019, app downloads were estimated at 204 billion. Considering that at least...
Background: In South Africa, occupational health services are delivered in a fragmented and complex environment. There is, however, a global emphasis on high-quality, universal occupational health coverage. Objective: To describe occupational health practitioners’ perceptions of the accreditation of oc...
Background. Although crises are generally considered uncommon, health professions education (HPE) literature gives evidence of repeated and ongoing crises. This has been most recently demonstrated by the global impact of COVID-19. Crisis management literature proposes that such recurrent crises are oppor...
Le corps joue un rôle primordial dans la relation avec l’autre et tient une place importante dans l’écoute chez l’Africain. Ce travail met en exergue l’hyperstimulation qui est faite du corps de l’Africain pendant les différentes étapes de la structuration de la personnalité. A travers la...
