Cadaver-based teaching prepares students intellectually and emotionally to deal with the challenges they will face in their health sciences careers.
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Dissection is important for developing a range of skills, as well as moral and ethical training and a humanistic approach to patient care.
Marginalised and small-scale fishers must be given capacity and the space to engage and influence policy.
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It’s possible for local fishing communities to have a say in managing the system they work in.
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South Africa’s Department of Water and Sanitation has plans in place to ensure adequate water supply until 2040 and beyond.
For most of human history, people had access to food either by producing it themselves, or through trade.
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Hunger affects people’s health. It also affects their dignity and their ability to live full and productive lives.
Hunger affects students’ ability to focus.
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Food insecurity remains a serious challenge among university students in South Africa.
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Body mass matters in rugby. But other factors play a bigger role in determining victory.
Conventionally, women are expected to be the main providers of care.
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Care facilities are often considered a last resort in South Africa. Personal care is assumed to be provided by family and household members.
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We found that the key factors behind poor cognitive function were related to levels of education, being a woman, marital status and being poor.
Ageing increases the risk of non-communicable diseases.
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Rapid population ageing has prompted researchers to study disease trends in older South Africans. The aim is to understand the role that specific health conditions play in ageing among rural people.
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In South Africa and India, research has found that free or affordable housing can actually undermine women’s safety and livelihoods.
The relationship between income and health underlines the need for strong government policies to break the cycle.
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It’s evident from research that while health influences economic well-being, the inverse is also true, economic well-being influences health.
A community health worker screening a child’s hearing in Cape Town.
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mHealth supported service-delivery systems can provide increased access to hearing and vision services for preschool children in poor communities.
The Conversation Africa is expanding in West Africa.
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria (left) arriving at Waterkloof Airforce Base Airport in Pretoria. He is welcomed by Minister Naledi Pandor.
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South Africa and Nigeria have had a turbulent relationship dating back to the early 1990s.
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Less than 1 in 10 people living with a mental health condition in South Africa receive the care that they need.
One of the immediate outcomes of talks between Muhammadu Buhari (left) and Cyril Ramaphosa was the easing of tensions.
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Although Nigeria and South Africa are often cast as rivals they have a strong bilateral relationship
Ideas shouldn’t be confined to academic institutions but should aid a country’s development.
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Universities, industry and government should work together so that knowledge translates into socio-economic benefits.
New Zealand’s Sonny Bill Williams is tackled by South Africans RG Snyman (right) and Frans Malherbe during a Rugby World Cup 2019 match in Yokohama, south of Tokyo.
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South Africa needs a new progressive sports movement that works for equality and peace based on mass participation and social justice.
A view of the General Assembly hall at the start of the 2019 Climate Action Summit.
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Africa has already felt the effects of Donald Trump’s climate change denialism. Recent events are also raising political issues of keen interest among the continent’s democrats.
South Africa’s energy regulator failed to assure a stable pricing path for electricity and is partly to blame for energy provider Eskom’s troubles.
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South Africa’s independent regulators have failed. Instead of introducing new ones, alternatives need to be found.