scholarly journals The roles of men and women in maternal and child nutrition in urban South Africa: A qualitative secondary analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Erzse ◽  
Susan Goldstein ◽  
Aviva Tugendhaft ◽  
Shane A. Norris ◽  
Mary Barker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Child Nutrition ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Maternal And Child Nutrition ◽  
Urban South ◽  
Qualitative Secondary Analysis

scholarly journals Community perspectives on maternal and child health during nutrition and economic transition in sub-Saharan Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniella Watson ◽  
Sarah H Kehoe ◽  
Agnes Erzse ◽  
Adélaïde Compaoré ◽  
Cornelius Debpuur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Maternal And Child Health ◽  
Child Nutrition ◽  
Economic Transition ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Maternal And Child Nutrition ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
And Child Health

Abstract Objective: To explore community perceptions on maternal and child nutrition issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Design: Thirty focus groups with men and women from three communities facilitated by local researchers. Setting: One urban (Soweto, South Africa) and two rural settings (Navrongo, Ghana and Nanoro, Burkina Faso) at different stages of economic transition. Participants: Two hundred thirty-seven men and women aged 18–55 years, mostly subsistence farmers in Navrongo and Nanoro and low income in Soweto. Results: Differences in community concerns about maternal and child health and nutrition reflected the transitional stage of the country. Community priorities revolved around poor nutrition and hunger caused by poverty, lack of economic opportunity and traditional gender roles. Men and women felt they had limited control over food and other resources. Women wanted men to take more responsibility for domestic chores, including food provision, while men wanted more involvement in their families but felt unable to provide for them. Solutions suggested focusing on ways of increasing control over economic production, family life and domestic food supplies. Rural communities sought agricultural support, while the urban community wanted regulation of the food environment. Conclusions: To be acceptable and effective, interventions to improve maternal and child nutrition need to take account of communities’ perceptions of their needs and address wider determinants of nutritional status and differences in access to food reflecting the stage of the country’s economic transition. Findings suggest that education and knowledge are necessary but not sufficient to support improvements in women’s and children’s nutritional status.

A History of the Present

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashwin Desai ◽  
Goolam Vahed
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Transnational Organizations ◽  
Intellectual Interest ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Fitting In

While small in number, the place of the Indian in South Africa has historically loomed large because of their strong commercial and professional middle class, international influence through India, the commitment of many Indians to the anti-apartheid struggle and the prominent role that they have played in political and economic life post-apartheid. A History of the Present is the first book-length overview of Indian South Africans in the quarter century following the end of apartheid. Based on oral interviews and archival research it threads a narrative of the lives of Indian South Africans that ranges from the working class men and women to the heady heights of the newly minted billionaires; the changes wrought in the fields of religion and gender; opportunities offered on the sporting fields; the search for roots both locally and in India that also witnesses the rise of transnational organizations. Indians in South Africa appear to be always caught in an infernal contradiction; too traditional, too insular, never fitting in, while also too modern, too mobile. While focusing on Indian South Africans, this study makes critical interventions into several charged political discussions in post-apartheid South Africa, especially the debate over race and identity, while also engaging in discussions of wider intellectual interest, including diaspora, nation, and citizenship.

scholarly journals A Priori and a Posteriori Dietary Patterns among Pregnant Women in Johannesburg, South Africa: The NuPED Study

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 565
Author(s):  
Cornelia Conradie ◽  
Jeannine Baumgartner ◽  
Linda Malan ◽  
Elizabeth A. Symington ◽  
Marike Cockeran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Dietary Patterns ◽  
Dietary Pattern ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Dietary Quality ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Urban South ◽  
Quality Diet ◽  
Nutrient Patterns

Dietary pattern analyses allow assessment of the diet as a whole. Limited studies include both a priori and a posteriori dietary pattern analyses. This study aimed to explore the diet of pregnant women in urban South Africa through both a priori and a posteriori dietary pattern analyses and associated maternal and household factors. Dietary data were collected during early pregnancy using a quantified food frequency questionnaire from 250 pregnant women enrolled in the Nutrition During Pregnancy and Early Development (NuPED) cohort. A priori dietary patterns were determined using the Diet Quality Index-International (DQI-I), and a posteriori nutrient patterns using exploratory factor analysis. Based on the DQI-I, the study population followed a borderline low-quality diet. Three a posteriori nutrient patterns were identified: Pattern 1 “plant protein, iron, thiamine, and folic acid”; pattern 2 “animal protein, copper, vitamin A, and vitamin B12”; pattern 3 “fatty acids and sodium”. Pattern 1 was associated with higher dietary quality (p < 0.001), lower maternal educational level (p = 0.03) and socioeconomic status (p < 0.001). Pattern 3 was significantly associated with lower dietary quality. The low dietary quality among pregnant women residing in urban South Africa should be addressed to ensure optimal maternal and offspring health outcomes.

scholarly journals Stuips, spuits and prophet ropes: The treatment of abantu childhood illnesses in urban South Africa

2009 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Friend-du Preez ◽  
Noël Cameron ◽  
Paula Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Childhood Illnesses ◽  
Urban South

What motivates maternal and child nutrition peer educators? Experiences of fathers and grandmothers in western Kenya

2015 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 45-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie L. Martin ◽  
Teresia Muhomah ◽  
Faith Thuita ◽  
Allison Bingham ◽  
Altrena G. Mukuria
Keyword(s):  
Child Nutrition ◽  
Peer Educators ◽  
Western Kenya ◽  
Maternal And Child Nutrition

Equity in the use of antiretroviral treatment in the public health care system in urban South Africa

Health Policy ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Cleary ◽  
Sheetal Silal ◽  
Stephen Birch ◽  
Henri Carrara ◽  
Victoria Pillay-van Wyk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Antiretroviral Treatment ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Public Health Care System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Urban South ◽  
Care System

scholarly journals Knowledge management according to organisational size: A South African perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelius Kruger ◽  
Roy D. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
South African ◽  
Middle Management ◽  
Senior Management ◽  
Urban South ◽  
Embedded Knowledge ◽  
Personal Approach ◽  
African Perspective ◽  
Insight Into

Background:To date, few studies have focused on how embedded Knowledge Management (KM) is found in the roots of an organisation. Specifically, not much is known whether employees and managers hold similar perceptions regarding KM or if organisational size plays a role in the establishment of KM maturity.Objective: The objective of this article was to determine what role organisational size plays in the establishment of KM maturity and how different managerial levels viewed their organisations KM maturity.Method: The authors gained insight into KM maturity in different industry groupings over a five-year period from a large urban South African University engaged in numerous collaboration programmes with industry. In total, 434 employees were interviewed over three grouping levels (operational, middle and senior management).Results: The findings support arguments that irrespective of organisational size, knowledge orientated issues are applicable to all organisations. However, with significant differences in scores recorded over all maturity sections in South Africa, the findings indicated that different sized organisations address knowledge-orientated issues differently.Conclusion: Findings challenge the argument that the manner in which knowledge-orientated issues are addressed differ only slightly depending on organisational size. Smaller-sized organisations prefer a more personal approach, whilst larger-sized organisations prefer knowledge transfer via technology. Irrespective of organisational size, commitment holds the key to KM success. Commitment shown by middle management regarding KM is a differentiator.

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