Publications by authors named "I Neethling"
Article Synopsis
- Verbal autopsy (VA) helps find out causes of death where birth and death records are not kept well, but it's costly. Telephonic VAs can save money. Sometimes, doctors need to agree on the cause, which can take a lot of time and effort.
- The study looked at how often two doctors agreed on the cause of death using telephonic VAs in South Africa, checking if their agreement was very high (over 0.8).
- Results showed that doctors agreed on causes like COVID-19 and heart disease most of the time, but not as much on diabetes. This means they might still need more than one doctor to be sure about the causes
Background: The burden of alcohol use among patients with trauma and the relative injury risks is not routinely measured in South Africa. Given the prominent burden of alcohol on hospital trauma departments, South Africa needs practical, cost-effective, and accurate alcohol diagnostic tools for testing, surveillance, and clinical management of patients with trauma.
Objective: This study aims to validate alcohol diagnostics for injury-related trauma and assess its use for improving national health practice and policy.
Introduction: Alcohol consumption is a key driver of the burden of violence and injury in South Africa (SA). Hence, we aim to validate various alcohol assessment tools against a blood test to assess their utility for improving national health practice and policy.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional pilot study from 3 to 19 August 2022 at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, SA.
Background: National estimates of childhood undernutrition display uncertainty; however, it is known that stunting is the most prevalent deficiency. Child undernutrition is manifest in poor communities but is a modifiable risk factor. The intention of the study was to quantify trends in the indicators of child undernutrition to aid policymakers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: South Africa (SA)'s high rate of interpersonal violence persists as a leading public health problem for the country. The first South African Comparative Risk Assessment Study (SACRA1) in 2000 quantified the long-term mental and physical health burden attributable to interpersonal violence by supplementing the direct injury burden of disease attributable to interpersonal violence injuries with the substantial contribution of mental health, behavioural and reproductive health consequences accruing from exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) and child sexual abuse.
Objectives: To revise and improve these estimates by including the additional burden from other forms of child maltreatment, community violence, sexual violence by non-partners, and bullying victimisation in SA for 2000, 2006 and 2012, and trends over time.