A high level of unwanted pregnancies among young women is an urgent public health problem in South Africa. The study sought to establish awareness, utilisation, and attitude towards the use of emergency contraception (EC) ...

Historically, the South African mining industry has been a male-dominated sector and the employment of women in this sector is relatively new. Compared to their male counterparts, women in mining have unique health and ...

Background: Hypertension is a significant public health problem in many developing countries experiencing epidemiological transition from communicable to non-communicable chronic diseases. The World Health Organization ...

This paper reports the results of a review of health promotion programmes in the workplace. The aim of this review was to ascertain evidence of success in health promotion in the workplace. Workplace health promotion (WHP) ...

The internationalisation of higher education is a global imperative that impact on students and supervision practises. Cultural and language diversity as well as the dynamic characteristics of the learners in an Open Distant ...

This Special Issue of the South African Journal of Psychology (SAJP) seeks to reflect critically on the role and relevance of South African psychology in the context of social transformation. Contributors to this Special ...

Wars have laid the foundation on which today's triage is based. Triage is used during disasters, at accident scenes and in the trauma and emergency units of hospitals to sort patients according to the acuity of their ...

HIV/AIDS continues to spread throughout the world with Africa remaining the worst affected continent. While much has been written about the prevention of HIV/AIDS by practising safe sex at the individual level, less ...

As nurses are often the first health care professionals to detect any birth difect, or any family in need of genetic counseling, they need to be knowledgable about international developments in this field. No report ...

Emergency contraception might be misunderstood by women who resort to termination of pregnancies in the event of unwanted pregnancies, rather than to use emergency contraceptives in the event of unprotected sexual ...