scholarly journals Experiences of returning patients at a Homoeopathic community clinic

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Vimbulaka Nhlakanipho Brian Ngobese
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Complementary Medicine ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
The South ◽  
Community Clinic ◽  
Private Healthcare ◽  
Primary Health

Introduction Abstract South Africa has a dual healthcare system which comprises of a public and private healthcare sector. The public sector is state controlled and provides allopathic medicinal care only, whilst the private healthcare sector is flexible. This means that the population has the choice of the medicinal therapy such as allopathic medicine or complementary medicine. Homeopathy is one of the complementary medicine with major growth and it has been in existence for so long in South Africa. However, a large proportion of the South African public is unclear with regards to homoeopathic understanding. Aim of the study The aim of the study was to explore the experiences of returning patients at Ukuba Nesibindi Homoeopathic Community Clinic and the study was guided by the grand tour question that is: What are the experiences as a returning patient, at UNHCC with regard to the care they had received? Methodology A qualitative, explorative, descriptive and contextual design was employed. Holloway and Wheeler (2010) suggest that a qualitative research in the field of healthcare is used to establish how people think of the experiences and their suffering and further explore their perspective on the care and treatment they received within the healthcare system. Purposive sampling was used to recruit a minimum of 12 participants who had visited the clinic four times or more. The data was collected and analysed using Tesch’s eight-step procedure. Results The results showed that although majority of the participant had vague understanding of homoeopathy, participants acknowledged that the quality of help received at the homeopathic clinic were highly beneficial. Furthermore, thematic analysis showed that participant ware dissatisfied with other streams of healthcare and contented with homoeopathic treatment. However, participants highlighted that the infrastructure at UNHCC needs improvement in terms of space. Conclusion The salient themes of this study strongly suggest that homeopathic medicine and practices was widely accepted by the participant. It also emerged that participant had trust and expressed confidence in homoeopaths at UNHCC. Based on these findings, the researcher highly recommends the need for the integration of homoeopathic practice and medicine into the South Africa Primary health care. Importantly, the integration of homoeopathic medicine as a primary health care provider will help provide an alternati ve platform to ease the load on conventional allopathic medical clinics.

scholarly journals Eye health promotion in the South African primary health care system*

2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. L. Sithole ◽  
O. A. Oduntan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
South African ◽  
Primary Health Care System ◽  
The South ◽  
Promotion Policy ◽  
Eye Health ◽  
Primary Health

Objective: There is currently very little or no research being done in South Africa on eye health promotion. Also, there is no evidence of any existing eye health promotion policy in the South African primary health care system. The purpose of this paper therefore is to highlight the lack of an integrated eye health promotion policy in the South African primary health care system.Approach: A literature review of research databases was conducted to identify research done in the previous years pertinent to eye health promotion in South Africa. Also, documents were requested from the South African National Department of Health to ascertain claims of any existing guidelines on eye care. It was found that these documents included the national guidelines on prevention of blindness, refractive error screening for persons 60 years and older, cataract surgery in South Africa, management and control of eye conditions at primary level.Although there is currently no integrated eye health promotion policy in South Africa, the fragmented national guidelines represent the existing policies on eye health promotion.  The custodians of these policies are the eye care coordinators located in each of the nine provinces.Conclusion: Although there are eye care coordinators in each province, there is no evidence of any eye health promotion activities being done in those provinces. Also, only one province out of nine has dedicated health promotion personnel that are not only focusing on eye health matters. This greatly compromises the initiatives of eliminating avoidable blindness. It is therefore recommended that an integrated eye health promotion model be developed so that it may form part of the South African primary health care system. (S Afr Optom 201069(4) 200-206)

scholarly journals Problem-Orientated Antenatal Notekeeping: A Useful Primary Health Care Tool

Curationis ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
J.V. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Obstetric Care ◽  
Antenatal Screening ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Risk Patients

It has recently been demonstrated that about 56 percent of patients delivering in a rural obstetric unit had significant risk factors, and that 85 percent of these could have been detected by meticulous antenatal screening before the onset of labour. These figures show that the average rural obstetric unit in South Africa is dealing with a large percentage of high risk patients. In this work, it is hampered by: 1. Communications problems: i.e. bad roads, long distances. and unpredictable telephones. 2. A serious shortage of medical staff resulting in primary obstetric care being delivered by midwives with minimal medical supervision.

scholarly journals Reasons for students’ poor clinical competencies in the Primary Health Care: Clinical nursing, diagnosis treatment and care programme

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nomasonto B. Magobe ◽  
Sonya Beukes ◽  
Ann Müller
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Care Programme ◽  
Clinical Competencies ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Comprehensive Primary Health Care

‘No member of [health] staff should undertake tasks unless they are competent to do so’ is stated in the Comprehensive Primary Health Care Service Package for South Africa (Department of Health 2001)document. In South Africa, primary clinical nurses (PCNs), traditionally known as primary health care nurses (PHCNs), function as ‘frontline providers’ of clinical primary health care (PHC) services within public PHC facilities, which is their extended role. This extended role of registered nurses(set out in section 38A of the Nursing Act 50 of 1978, as amended) demands high clinical competency training by nursing schools and universities.The objectives of the study were to explore and describe the perceptions of both clinical instructors and students, in terms of the reasons for poor clinical competencies. Results established that two main challenges contributed to students’ poor clinical competencies: challenges within the PHC clinical field and challenges within the learning programme (University).OpsommingDie primêre kliniese verpleegkundiges, tradisioneel bekend as primêre gesondheidsorg verpleegkundiges, funksioneer in Suid-Afrika as eerste-linie verskaffers van kliniese primêre gesondheidsorg (PGS) dienste binne die publieke PGS fasiliteite. Dit is hulle uitgebreide rol. Hierdie uitgebreide rol van die verpleegkundige (soos deur Wet op Verpleging,No 50 van 1978, artikel 38A voorgeskryf), vereis opleiding in kliniese vaardighede van hoë gehalte deur verpleegskole en universiteite.Die doelwitte van die navorsing was om die persepsies van beide kliniese dosente en leerders,met betrekking tot die redes vir swak kliniese vaardighede, repektiewelik te verken en te beskryf.Twee temas is deur die resultate as uitdagings (hoof redes) vir die swak vaardighede van leerders aangetoon, naamlik uitdagings in die PGS kliniese praktyk en die uitdagings in die leerprogram (universiteit).

scholarly journals Antimicrobial prescribing patterns in a group of private primary health care clinics in South Africa

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norah L Katende-Kyenda ◽  
Martie S Lubbe ◽  
Jan HP Serfontein ◽  
Ilse Truter
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Prescribing Patterns ◽  
Antimicrobial Prescribing ◽  
Health Care Clinics ◽  
Primary Health

The aim of this study was to investigate the prescribing of antimicrobials in private primary health care in South Africa. ABSTRAK Die doel met hierdie studie was om die voorskryfpatrone van antimikrobiese middels in private primêre gesondheidsorginrigtings in Suid-Afrika te ondersoek.

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