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Survivors' burden

Science, 2020
What awaits the sickest COVID-19 patients after they leave the hospital?
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Trends in smoking prevalence in South Africa for 1998 - 2014 - overcoming the challenge of multiple data sources

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Monitoring prevalence of smoking is essential for evaluating the impact of national tobacco control policies. This study aims to estimate national pooled smoking prevalence trends over a 16 year period for adult South Africans.
Charl Janse van Rensburg, Pam Groenewald, Oluwatoyin Awotiwon, Beatrice Nojilana, Jane Joubert, Victoria Pillay van-Wyk, Debbie Bradshaw, Samuel Manda   +7 more
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Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high fasting plasma glucose in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012

South African Medical Journal, 2022
Background. Worldwide, higher-than-optimal fasting plasma glucose (FPG) is among the leading modifiable risk factors associated with all- cause mortality and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to the direct sequelae of diabetes and the ...
V Pillay van-Wyk, A Cois, A P Kengne, R A Roomaney, N Levitt, E B Turawa, N Abdelatief, I Neethling, O F Awotiwon, B Nojilana, J D Joubert, R Pacella, D Bradshaw   +12 more
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Parasitoids of \u3ci\u3eChionaspis Pinifoliae\u3c/i\u3e (Homoptera: Diaspididae) in Iowa [PDF]

, 2017
Three parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae: Aphelininae), Aphytis diaspidis, Coccobius varicornis, and Marietta pulchella, were recovered from field collections of the pine needle scale, Chionaspis pinifoliae, on Pinus sylvestris in central Iowa ...
Burden, Daniel J, Hart, Elwood R
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Does provision of antenatal care in Southern Asia improve neonatal survival? A systematic review and meta-analysisAJOG Global Reports at a Glance

AJOG Global Reports, 2022
BACKGROUND: Southern Asia has one of the highest burdens of neonatal mortality worldwide (26/1000 live births). Ensuring that women receive antenatal care from a skilled provider may play an important role in reducing this burden.
Millie A. O'Dair, MBChB, Andrew Demetri, MBChB, Gemma L. Clayton, PhD, Deborah Caldwell, PhD, Katie Barnard, MA, Christy Burden, MD, Abigail Fraser, PhD, Abi Merriel, PhD   +7 more
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Non-perturbative Fermion Propagator for the Massless Quenched QED3 [PDF]

, 2000
For massless quenched QED in three dimensions, we evaluate a non-perturbative expression for the fermion propagator which agrees with its two loop perturbative expansion in the weak coupling regime.
A. Bashir, Ball, Bashir, Bashir, Burden, Burden, Curtis, Dong, Fradkin, Kizilersü, Landau, Landau, Zumino   +12 more
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Teachers learning to use the iPad in Scotland and Wales: a new model of professional development [PDF]

, 2015
In learning to use a new technology like the iPad, primary teachers adopt a diverse range of experiential, informal and playful strategies contrasting sharply with traditional models underpinning professional development which emphasise formal courses ...
Abbinett, Emily, Beauchamp, Gary, Burden, Kevin   +2 more
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Conceptualising teachers' professional learning with Web 2.0 [PDF]

, 2010
Purpose – This paper seeks to identify and develop an exploratory framework for conceptualising how teachers might use the affordances of Web 2.0 technologies to support their own professional learning.
Burden, Kevin John
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Tuberculosis remains the leading cause of death attributed to smoking in South Africa: results from the South African death certificate study

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background The question 'Was the deceased a smoker five years ago?' was introduced in mid-1997 on a revised South African death notification form to provide a direct estimate of tobacco attributed mortality, using a case-control method for ongoing ...
Pam Groenewald, Ria Laubscher, Victoria Pillay van Wyck, William Msemburi, Debbie Bradshaw, Freddy Sitas   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of multimorbidity in South Africa: a systematic review protocol

BMJ Open, 2020
Introduction Multimorbidity has increased globally over the past two decades, due to ageing populations and increased burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Brian van Wyk, Rifqah A Roomaney, Eunice Bolanle Turawa, Victoria Pillay-van Wyk   +3 more
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