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Re-imagining health professions education in the coronavirus disease 2019 era: Perspectives from South Africa.
Afr J Prim Health Care Fam Med
August 2021
Division of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town.
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic hit South Africa in March 2020, severely disrupting health services and health education. This fundamentally impacted the training of future health professionals and catalysed a significant response from across the health education sector. In 2020, the South African Association of Health Educationalists requested members to submit reflections on different aspects of their COVID-19 related educational responses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVolunteering among Older Lesbian and Gay Adults: Associations with Mental, Physical and Social Well-Being.
J Aging Health
January 2021
289795COTA Australia, Australia.
Volunteering is associated with positive well-being among older people, providing opportunities to stay active and socially connected. This may be especially relevant for older lesbian and gay people, who are less likely than heterosexual people to have a partner, children or support from their family of origin. Patterns of volunteering and mental, physical and social well-being were examined in a sample of 754 lesbian and gay adults in Australia aged 60 years and older who completed a nationwide survey.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMedical students' experiences of professional lapses and patient rights abuses in a South African health sciences faculty.
Acad Med
October 2011
Primary Health Care Directorate, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Purpose: To elicit South African medical students' experiences of witnessing patient rights abuses and professional lapses during their clinical training in order to inform an appropriate and effective response.
Method: During June and July 2009 at the University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences, the authors surveyed 223 fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-year medical students in selected clinical rotations concerning abuses they had observed. Volunteers were later interviewed individually.
Routine reporting or sentinel surveys for HIV/AIDS surveillance in resource-poor settings: experience in South Africa, 1991-97.
Int J STD AIDS
May 1999
KwaZulu Department of Health AIDS Programme, Amatikulu Centre, Nyoni, South Africa.
Information from routine and sentinel surveillance was used to monitor the HIV/AIDS epidemic in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa between 1991 and 1997. Comparisons were made between data obtained from (1) sentinel surveillance for antenatal HIV infection, pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), and AIDS in a single health district and (2) province-wide sentinel surveillance for antenatal HIV infection, legally required notification of cases of PTB, and voluntary notification of AIDS cases. HIV prevalence among antenatal clinic attenders in the sentinel district rose rapidly and at similar rates to provincial figures: 4.
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