Health Equity
The Health Equity Area of Excellence (AoE) provides leadership in the creation of a community of scholars within the Faculty of Nursing that foster discourse and inquiry to examine issues related to social determinants of health as conditions for social advantage/ disadvantage and systematic disparities in health.
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Sociocultural and linguistic boundaries influencing intercultural communication between nurses and Moroccan patients in southern Spain: A focused ethnography.
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Higginbottom, G. M., Plaza Del Pino, F. J., Soriano, E.
Background During the last 25 years, cultural diversity has increased substantially with global migration. In more recent years this has become highly evident in the south of Spain with its steadily increasing Moroccan population. The accompanying differences in ethnocultural values and...
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2002
Quality control in perinatal education is imperative, with the purpose to deliver a high quality and appropriate healthcare service to the family in the perinatal period. The purpose of this study was to develop valid standards for perinatal education in South Africa. To reach this goal, the...
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2010
Nilmanat, K., Sripichyakan, K., Kantaruksa, K., O'Brien, B., Warangkana, C.
Thai men who participate in a sexual encounter leading to an unwanted pregnancy typically are not expected to accept responsibility for providing support and care to women who choose pregnancy termination. Twenty-three individuals (6 women and 6 men who were partners, plus six women and five men...
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2010
Kahlke, Renate, King, Sharla, Carbonaro, Mike, Boechler, Patricia, Drummond, Jane, Greidanus, Elaine
Health Science teams are increasingly interprofessional and often require use of information communication technology. These shifts result in a need for health science students to learn online interprofessional teamwork skills early in their training. In response, one interprofessional...
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Thai families' caring practices for infants with congenital heart disease prior to cardiac surgery
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Yenbut, J., Chontawan, R., Laohaprasittiporn, D., Wanitkun, S., Ray, L., Srichantaranit, A.
This focused ethnographic study aimed at exploring how the Thai sociocultural context influenced the perceptions and practices of Thai families caring for infants, 3 months to 17 months, with symptomatic, acyanotic or cyanotic, congenital heart disease (CHD), prior to cardiac surgery. Purposive...
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The educational and supportive needs of informal caregivers working at Refentse Clinic, Hammanskraal
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Informal caregivers have long been used as health care providers. It is also not uncommon in present days, to see such practice in the community. This practice of caring normally occurs within the context of the family. The purpose of the study is to explore and describe the educational and...