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Medical EducationVolume 35, Issue 10 p. 996-999 Development of the programme Mental Disorders in Primary Care as Internet-based distance education in South Africa First published: 07 July 2008 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2001.01031.xCitations: 3 B Mash Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University, PO Box 19063, Tygerberg, 7505, South Africa Bob Mash Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare...
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This innovative educational programme was developed in the South African context for general practitioners (GPs).This short report describes the process of designing an Internet-based distance education programme Mental Disorders in Primary Care.The article discusses relevant educational principles and then describes four stages in the instructional design process: design, development, evaluation and revision.The design and development of an Internet-based distance education programme for...
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To determine the incidence, predisposing factors, clinical features, bacteriological pattern and antibiotic sensitivity in septicaemia in high-risk newborns.A prospective study.Neonatal unit, Ife State Hospital, a unit of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), Ile-Ife, Nigeria.All newborns admitted with clinical features and/or risk factors suggestive of neonatal septicaemia from February 1994 to March 1995.Culture results and mortality rates.The incidence of...
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Self-reported schistosomiasis has been proven to be a reliable estimation of the prevalence of infection in school children. For the first time, this paper presents an investigation into the use of self-reported schistosomiasis to estimate the prevalence of urinary schistosomiasis, due to Schistosoma haematobium, in school children with particular emphasis on whether the age and sex of respondents influences the reliability of diagnosis. It is shown first, that the prevalence and intensity...
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In these two African societies the role played in education by English, the ex-colonial language, is challenged by a national lingua franca: Setswana in the case of Botswana, and Kiswahili in the case of Tanzania. In examining debate over educational language policy in the two countries, I take into account political and economic differences, but I also identify parallels in the hierarchical evaluation of languages. In relation to the likely future direction of policy change, and in...
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Mounting demographic pressures, rising unemployment among school leavers, the rising cost of education against diminishing resources and shrinking jobs in both formal public and private sectors are some of the key challenges facing education systems in most African countries. Specific responses to these challenges may vary from one country to another, but a notable convergence has been a growing interest in and emphasis on the role and potential of the informal sector in employment...
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Although racial data are no longer available, this article uses a 1997 dataset to compare education spending with the pre-democracy situation. The new government emphasised fiscal resource shifts to eliminate spending discrimination rather than changing educational outcomes. Fiscal resource shifts in education and increased education spending were concentrated in formerly black schools. At the geographic level, non-metropolitan regions gained massively. Yet, as qualified teachers remain...
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This study examined the potential utility of genetic counseling services for Somali immigrants by investigating their perceptions of disability. Five Somali women participated in structured interviews that assessed their perceptions of the nature, causes, and impact of disability, and care for persons with disabilities. Using a Heideggerian Hermeneutics qualitative method of analysis, six major themes emerged: (1) disability refers to both physical and mental conditions, with mental...
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A socioculturally appropriate health risk behavior instrument, modeled after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), was administered to 717 secondary school students in a rural area of Zimbabwe. Comparisons of risk behaviors by gender and school grade were made using univariate procedures and multiple logistic regression. Males were significantly more likely than females to have had sexual intercourse (odds ratio = 5.02, p < .0001) and to...
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A socioculturally appropriate health risk behavior instrument, modeled after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), was administered to 717 secondary school students in a rural area of Zimbabwe. Comparisons of risk behaviors by gender and school grade were made using univariate procedures and multiple logistic regression. Males were significantly more likely than females to have had sexual intercourse (odds ratio = 5.02, p < .0001) and to...
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The ever-increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere is projected to cause important changes in climate patterns. In the Sahelian part of Cameroon, changes in temperature and rainfall would have an important impact on the availability of water resources. To evaluate vulnerability, future runoff over the economically important Upper Benue River is simulated using a hydrological water balance model. Two climate change experiments (HadCM2 and ECHAM4/OPYC3) provide the...
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Based on self-reports the prevalence during childhood of psychological, physical, emotional, and ritualistic abuse among 559 high school students in Standards 7, 8, 9, and 10 of three high schools in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa was examined. The questionnaire asked for the demographic information and experiences of psychological, physical, and emotional abuse by their parents or adult caretakers as well as ritualistic abusive experiences before they were 17 years of age plus an...
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This is an investigation into the perceived parental love and care as related to child sexual, physical and emotional abuse among a sample of university students in South Africa. Seven hundred and seventy-two undergraduate students of psychology at the University of the North, South Africa, filled in a retrospective selfrating questionnaire in a classroom setting. The questionnaire asked questions about perceived parental love and care, and childhood sexual, physical and emotional abuse....