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Background : Mental health is defined as the capacity to work, capacity to love and the capacity to play and for recreation. It describes either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a disorder. Mental health refers to a broad array of activities directly or indirectly related to the mental well-being component. Mental illness was not recognized as public health problem both in developed and developing countries until the recent period of time (WHO, 1994). But there...
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Objective: HIV and AIDS have adverse effects on the livelihood of adolescents especially when parents die or are poor due to ill health.Mildmay Uganda has an apprenticeship programme that helps such adolescents acquire skills in order to improve their quality of life.The aim of this study was to examine the role of apprenticeship in improving the livelihood of HIV-positive adolescents who prematurely dropped out of school.Methods: A retrospective review of data of all adolescents who had...
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Higher education institutions in South Africa have invested heavily in information technology and information systems, with variable outcomes. Organisations in other sectors, such as engineering, the defence industry, public administration and business, have developed and adopted standards and guides to good practice for the development and operation of software-based systems. In the history of standards-making there was an early vision of the need to extend standardisation beyond software...
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Mathematics is a subject which seeks to understand patterns that permeate both the world around us and the mind within us. There are many ways of thinking and the kind of thinking one learns in mathematics is an ability to handle abstraction and solve problems that require knowledge of mathematics. Mathematical creativity is essential for scientists. Creativity is one of the goals of teaching mathematics in schools. This study investigated the Effects of Experiential Learning Approach on...
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The number of organisations reporting on sustainability is increasing internationally. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are required to adhere to sound business management principles and implement sustainability reporting. In order to address these issues, this study investigates the extent to which HEIs in South Africa conduct comprehensive sustainability reporting. A national survey was conducted amongst the 21 universities in South Africa in 2014 to determine the level of...
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The #FeesMustFall-campaign’s main objection was against the high and rising tuition fees of higher education in South Africa. This short note investigates this assertion from a historical perspective: Are university fees more expensive than a decade or a century ago? We document historical tuition fees at one of South Africa’s premier universities – Stellenbosch University. The answer is an unequivocal yes.
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The effects of climate change are widely threatening West African farming. The case of the farmers in the West African Sudan savannah is particularly severe due to the specific ecological vulnerability and the political and socioeconomic instability in the region. Since 2012, the West African Science Service on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) has been leading a regional effort to enhance the understanding, data availability and building capabilities to strengthen the ability of...
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This paper is one of a series of ESID studies that explore the extent to which the performance of schools can be explained as an outcome of the interactions between, on the one hand, the prevailing political dynamics and, on the other, the characteristics of the prevailing institutional arrangements. The focus of this paper is on the national performance tools in South Africa. When one looks at the arrangements that have been put in place for managing public sector performance since 1994 –...
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This paper is one of a series of ESID studies that explore the extent to which the performance of schools can be explained as an outcome of the interactions between, on the one hand, the prevailing political dynamics and, on the other, the characteristics of the prevailing institutional arrangements. The focus of this paper is on the national performance tools in South Africa. When one looks at the arrangements that have been put in place for managing public sector performance since 1994 –...
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The lack of palliative care knowledge among health care providers is a major barrier to adequate care in the rural provinces of South Africa (SA). Three aims: (1) to identify palliative care learning needs of community health workers (CHWs) working in a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Mpumalanga province SA, (2) to develop a training session based on the needs identified by the CHWs, and (3) to describe CHWs’ perceptions of the usefulness of the training content. Data were collected...
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South Africa has risen to the forefront of educational debates that claim schooling can promote social justice and social cohesion.By drawing on Freire's (1970) theory of critical pedagogy, this paper examines how South African teachers in rural and township schools encourage students to reflect critically upon their own lives and take action to improve issues of inequality, violence, and insecurity.It argues that teachers understand their roles as agents of social change primarily as...
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Prepared for the UNRISD project on: Gender Dimensions of Food and Water Security in Dryland Areas
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Background: Hearing loss is a problem with higher incidence in South Asia, Asia Pacific and sub-Saharan Africa.In these countries there is also associated history of anemia and malaria.Objective: This study aims to identify a putative role of Beta globin mutation -sickle cell trait and HL in São Tomé and Príncipe population.Methods: A retrospective case-control study of a convenience sample was collected during Otolaryngologist Humanitarian Missions in São Tomé and Príncipe.Control group...