J. S. S. Gear

Social Interventions for HIV/AIDS

James Hargreaves, T Atsbeha, J. S. S. Gear, J Kim et autres

The Links between Legal Status and Environmental Health: A Case Study of Mozambican Refugees and Their Hosts in the Mpumalanga (Eastern Transvaal) Lowveld, South Africa

CG Dolan, Stephen Tollman, Vusimuzi Goodman Nkuna, J. S. S. Gear

This article relates the legal status of Mozambicans in South Africa from 1985 onwards to key findings of a demographic census taken in 1992, an environmental health survey conducted in 1993, and in-depth fieldwork in some of the surveyed settlements in 1995. …

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Establishing priorities for advocacy in South African Health.

David Mametja, Jinabhai Cc, Ntombenhle Precious Ngwane, Carrie Brewer Dolan et autres

To develop an appropriate health policy agenda, the National Progressive Primary Health Care Network (NPPHC) and the South African Health and Social Services Organization (SAHSSO) conducted situational analyses in 4 areas: an informal peri-urban area within the Durban functional region in Natal, …

Results and Methodological Problems of a Community Survey of Developmental Delays in Rural African Children Under 37 Months of Age

Huib Cornielje, Paulo de Lyz Girou Martins Ferrinho, J. S. S. Gear

No abstract available.

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Child health in farm workers' communities.

M. E. Edginton, J. S. S. Gear

Black women who had borne one or more children in the 5 years preceding the study and who were resident on white-owned farms were sampled in a multistage cluster procedure from the population of two magisterial districts of the southern Transvaal, Ventersdorp …

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Protein energy malnutrition and its recognition in outpatient departments in Venda hospitals.

Ekkehard Werner Zöllner, J. S. S. Gear, G. M. Maritz, Amanda R. Helms et autres

Between April and June 1988 the number of children under 5 years old attending outpatient departments of Venda hospitals who had protein energy malnutrition (PEM) was determined, the proportions at 3 Venda hospitals were compared, and what percentage of these children was …

Child health and childminding.

A. Raynal, J. S. S. Gear, Martin Beer

With the objective of determining whether training childminders could improve the health of the children in their care, a controlled trial was conducted among volunteer childminders in a white working-class community in Johannesburg. A small sample of non-volunteer childminders studied did not …

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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Compliance Improving Strategies in Soweto Hypertensives

L. Duncan Saunders, Leslie M. Irwig, J. S. S. Gear, Dora L. Ramushu

Saunders, L Duncan MB, BCh, PhD*,†; Irwig, Leslie M. MB, BCh, PhD*,‡; Gear, John S.S. MB, BCh, DPhil§; Ramushu, Dora L.* Author Information

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The doctor and financial management.

Peter Barron, Michel Ross, J. S. S. Gear

Community health survey of Oukasie, 1987.

Peter Barron, Paulo de Lyz Girou Martins Ferrinho, Eric F. Buch, J. S. S. Gear et autres

A series of surveys were conducted at the request of the community of Oukasie to determine certain public health information in the township, a peri-urban black community. This article describes two of these surveys. The first, a census and partial demographic survey, …

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Measuring environmental health status in Oukasie, 1987.

Paulo de Lyz Girou Martins Ferrinho, Peter Barron, Eric F. Buch, J. S. S. Gear et autres

This article reports on some aspects of the physical environment and on environmental health services at Oukasie. The data were collected over a weekend in August 1987 by an interview and by direct inspection of the environment using a standard schedule. We …

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Some Aspects of Primary Health Care in Oukasie

Paulo de Lyz Girou Martins Ferrinho, P. Barron, Eric F. Buch, J. S. S. Gear et autres

No abstract available.

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