International observation will not insulate controversial polls – such as Tanzania’s in October – from malpractices, but will make them less likely and allow them to be exposed.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Public health
Displaying 961 - 980 of 2122 articles
CC BY-NC-ND8.8 MB (download)
There is an app that helps frontline healthcare workers deal with the mental health challenges they face in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Public health education campaigns disregard economic factors.
A political science scholar explains how political beliefs inform the way we process scientific information.
Rates of suicidal behaviour are higher among South African students than among the general population or students in other countries. Understanding why will help shape prevention efforts.
When water stagnates in pipes, harmful metals and bacteria can accumulate and make people sick. Buildings that were shut down for weeks during the pandemic may be at risk.
The bigger parties which contest elections at all three levels would benefit the most – but voters might split their votes.
There are over 1,000 lineages of SARS-CoV-2 circulating around the world. Nigerian scientists have found seven in the country and this is important.
Pooled testing, or group testing, has been used to diagnose relatively rare conditions, such as infection in blood donors. It could be used for universal early infant diagnosis and viral load testing.
CC BY-NC-ND3.79 MB (download)
The vaccines being tested in South Africa have been included on the World Health Organization’s list of 26 most viable candidate vaccines to enter human clinical trials.
Communities who are the custodians of the knowledge associated with African traditional medicinal plants must derive a fair economic return from these natural resources.
Children need the opportunity to ask questions and have them answered by experts in ways they can understand. A briefing may reduce children’s anxiety and increase their understanding of the pandemic.
Less than 1% of the world’s research is produced in Africa.
We modelled surface water across Africa to show which parts of the continent are climatically-suitable for malaria – and how this will change.
Healthcare professionals should develop new ways of measuring health outcomes, taking relevant cultural factors into consideration.
Children have made many sacrifices because of the country’s COVID-19 response, including social isolation, lack of education opportunities and reduced access to nutrition programmes.
While community transmission remains a challenge, we must understand the effects the pandemic is having on younger adults to design effective public health responses and messaging.
CC BY-NC-ND11.3 MB (download)
A second vaccine trial is under way in South Africa. Here is all you need to know.
The assumption has always been that students would enjoy online learning but our research, during COVID-19 lock down, found otherwise.
Female traditional leaders are an important community bloc that needs to be utilised more often.
Top contributors
-
Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
-
Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
-
Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
-
Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
-
Executive Secretary, Nigerian Academy of Science
-
Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
-
Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
-
Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine and Director, The Centre for Medical Ethics & Law, Stellenbosch University
-
Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
-
Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
-
Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
-
Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
-
Dornsife Endowed Professor of Global Health, Drexel University
-
Chief Research Officer, Kenya Medical Research Institute
