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Open AccessWhat values drive communities’ nutrition priorities in a resource constrained urban area in South Africa?
Voices of under-resourced communities are recognised as important yet are often unheard in decisions about healthcare resource allocation. Deliberative public engagement can serve as an effective mechanism for...
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Open AccessHealth economic evidence in clinical guidelines in South Africa: a mixed-methods study
Evidence-informed clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are useful tools to inform transparent healthcare decision-making. Consideration of health economic evidence (HEE) during CPG development in a structured m...
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Open AccessThe global diet and activity research (GDAR) network: a global public health partnership to address upstream NCD risk factors in urban low and middle-income contexts
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death globally. While upstream approaches to tackle NCD risk factors of poor quality diets and physical inactivity have been trialled in high income co...
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Open AccessBibliometric trends of health economic evaluation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Collaboration between Sub-Saharan African researchers is important for the generation and transfer of health technology assessment (HTA) evidence, in order to support priority-setting in health. The objective ...
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Open AccessHealth care utilization and outpatient, out-of-pocket costs for active convulsive epilepsy in rural northeastern South Africa: a cross-sectional Survey
Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder, with over 80 % of cases found in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Studies from high-income countries find a significant economic burden associated with epil...
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Open AccessModelling the potential impact of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax on stroke mortality, costs and health-adjusted life years in South Africa
Stroke poses a growing human and economic burden in South Africa. Excess sugar consumption, especially from sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), has been associated with increased obesity and stroke risk. Researc...
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Open AccessApplying a private sector capitation model to the management of type 2 diabetes in the South African public sector: a cost-effectiveness analysis
Diabetes mellitus contributes substantially to the non-communicable disease burden in South Africa. The proposed National Health Insurance system provides an opportunity to consider the development of a cost-e...
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Open AccessHypertension education and adherence in South Africa: a cost-effectiveness analysis of community health workers
To determine whether training community health workers (CHWs) about hypertension in order to improve adherence to medications is a cost-effective intervention among community members in South Africa.
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Open AccessEvidence that a tax on sugar sweetened beverages reduces the obesity rate: a meta-analysis
Excess intake of sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been shown to result in weight gain. To address the growing epidemic of obesity, one option is to combine programmes that target individual behaviour chang...
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Deletion of Huntington's disease-linked G8 (D4S10) locus in Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive involuntary movements and dementia1,2. The symptoms of the disease, although devastating in severity, do ...
