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Fricke, Tim MSCOptom, FAAO; Naidoo, Kovin OD; Cronje, Sonja BOptom; Holden, Brien PhD, DSC, OAM, FAAO Author Information
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A shift towards decentralization in many low-income countries has meant more skills are demanded of primary health care managers, including data and information handling at all levels of the health care system. Ministries of Health are changing their central reporting health information systems to health management information systems with emphasis on managers utilizing information at the point of collection. This paper reports on a research study to investigate the introduction of new...
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South Africa is in the throes of an AIDS epidemic compounded by tuberculosis. Nevertheless, responses to the recent launch of a colorful book promoting adolescent knowledge of HIV immunopathogenesis provide grounds for cautious optimism that education can induce a form of “social vaccination” in South Africa and elsewhere.
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The Byzantine age in Egypt is considered one of the most impressive ages in Egyptian history; this importance is due to the radical changes both in economic and cultural life in Egypt. The present study endeavors to prove that these radical changes have some depth in Egyptian civilization. The system of education in Byzantine Egypt was meanly based upon several factors: Hellenic culture dominant from the Ptolemaic age; Christian culture as from the diffusion of Christianity of Egypt; the...
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Climate has a significant impact on malaria incidence and we have predicted that forecast climate changes might cause some modifications to the present global distribution of malaria close to its present boundaries. However, it is quite another matter to attribute recent resurgences of malaria in the highlands of East Africa to climate change. Analyses of malaria time-series at such sites have shown that malaria incidence has increased in the absence of co-varying changes in climate. We find...
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This study examined the differential predictive bias of CBM in reading across African American and Caucasian students in Grades 2 through 5. Participants included 136 students who were administered CBM oral reading fluency passages and the Reading Comprehension subtest of the Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery—Revised. A series of hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that CBM neither over-or underpredicted reading comprehension skills controlling for age, sex, and...
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During 1999 and 2000, the author was employed by the Papua New Guinea Department of Education. Part of her duties at the Papua New Guinea Education Institute was to deliver in-service professional development programs to teachers who were implementing the country’s new curriculum. A focus of this curriculum is the use of two languages in early education; it also responds to the notion of the “bridging years” when children in Papua New Guinea develop skills and knowledge in two cultures and...
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This study examined the possible motivational modes of 60 high achieving African American college students and the pathways associated with the students' selection of college of major, their perceptions of education, and their reasons for studying. The data were collected using open-ended questions and were analyzed using content analysis. Findings provide evidence that the African American students utilized a combination of intrinsic, extrinsic, future, and social goals. This study is...
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Primitive samples (MgO>5%) that are representative of the volcanic stratigraphy of São Vicente were analysed for major and trace element compositions and Nd, Sr and Pb isotopes. Mantle-normalized trace element patterns of the samples have negative anomalies of large ion lithophile elements such as Rb and K and positive anomalies for Nb, Ti and Zr, as is typical for some ocean island basalts (OIB). The oldest volcanics (OV) and the youngest volcanics (RV) are picrobasalts and basanites,...
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The diagnosis of tuberculosis in children is difficult particularly in HIV infected children. The poor outcome following antituberculosis treatment usually reported in HIV infected children might be due, in part, to other HIV-related chronic diseases wrongly diagnosed as TB.The study examines the impact of HIV infection on the clinical features and diagnosis of children presenting with suspected tuberculosis in Mbarara University Teaching Hospital. It also examines the effect of various...
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Transformation and reform brought about profound challenges and changes to service delivery in the South African government. It also confirmed global experiences that, in order to manage this process, a knowledgeable, skilful and dedicated workforce is needed. South Africa is experiencing major difficulties in this regard. To overcome this situation, skills development to inter alia increase productivity need to be instilled in the public sector. Particular objectives are therefore set to...
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Extracted from text ... I am very happy to read the commentary on my paper. The commentary broadened my knowledge and gave me more insight into other interesting findings in the study and other possible exciting conclusions. The readers of my article will also be enriched further after reading the commentary. I, therefore, join the author of the commentary in calling for large scale epidemiological studies on child sexual abuse on representative samples drawn from the general population of...
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This is an investigation into the relationship between perceived parental physical availability and child sexual, physical and emotional abuse among high school students in the Northern Province (South Africa). All the secondary school students in standards 9 and 10 in three secondary schools filled in a retrospective self-rating questionnaire in a classroom setting. The questionnaire asked questions about perceived parental physical availability during childhood, and childhood sexual,...