Research articles (Dept of Family Medicine & Public Health)
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The Impact of China’s lockdown policy on the incidence of COVID-19: an interrupted time series analysis
(Hindawi, https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/, 2021-10-28)Background. Policy changes are often necessary to contain the detrimental impact of epidemics such as those brought about by coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In the earlier phases of the emergence of COVID-19, China was the ... -
University of Botswana Public Health Medicine Unit contributions to the national COVID-19 response
(Pan African Medical Journal, https://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/, 2021-05-27)COVID-19 was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) in January 2020 and a pandemic in March 2020. Botswana reported its first case on 30th March 2020 and as of 31st January 2021 had 21,293 cases ... -
Patient-centredness: meaning and propriety in the Botswana, African and non-Western contexts
(Aosis, https://aosis.co.za/, 2014-02-20)Patient-centredness is a key principle in Family Medicine. It is covered in a Family Medicine textbook by McWhinney and textbooks edited by Goh et al., Rakel and Rakel3 and Mash and Blitz-Lindeque, to name but a few. ... -
Reflections on primary health care and family medicine in Botswana
(Aosis, https://aosis.co.za/, 2014-08-14)Primary Care should be the ‘central function and main focus of a country’s health system‘.The Ouagadougu Declaration similarly states that the vehicle for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and addressing the health ... -
The experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS in Gaborone, Botswana: stigma, its consequences and coping mechanisms
(Aosis,https://aosis.co.za/, 2014)Background: This study was carried out in Bontleng, Extension 14 and Old Naledi, which are low-income residential areas of Gaborone, Botswana. The aim of the study was to explore the experiences of people living with human ... -
Association between depression in carers and malnutrition in children aged 6 months to 5 years
(Aosis, http://www.aosis.org, 2017-01-30)Background: Childhood malnutrition is an important risk factor for child mortality and underlies close to 50% of child deaths worldwide. Previous studies have found an association between maternal depression ... -
A novel and fatal method of copper sulphate poisoning
(Elsevier, https://www.elsevier.com/, 2014-04)Introduction: Copper sulphate is widely used around the world as a pesticide and seed fungicide. Many cases of accidental intoxication with this substance have been reported among farm workers who have absorbed large amounts ... -
Addressing the challenge of p-value and sample size when the significance is borderline: the test of random duplication of participants as a new approach
(Lifescience Global, https://www.lifescienceglobal.com/, 2016)The issue of borderline p-value seems to divide health scientists into two schools of thought. One school of thought argues that when the p-value is greater than or equal to the statistical significance cut-off level of ... -
A mortality review of tuberculosis and HIV co-infected patients in Mahalapye, Botswana: does cotrimoxazole preventive therapy and/or antiretroviral therapy protect against death?
(Aosis/http//aosis.co.za, 2018-11-15)Background: The World Health Organization aims to reduce tuberculosis (TB) mortality rate from 15% in 2015 to 6.5% by 2025. Aim: This study determined the profile of TB and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) coinfected ... -
Assessment of the household availability of oral rehydration salt in rural Botswana
(PAMJ-Center for Public Health Research and Information, http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/, 2013)Introduction: Diarrhea contributed for 17.6% of under-five deaths in Botswana. Oral rehydration salt (ORS) therapy has been the cornerstone in the control of morbidity and mortality secondary to diarrheal diseases. The ... -
A continuous mathematical model for Shigella outbreaks
(Scientific & Academic Publishing, http://www.sapub.org/, 2014)A continuous mathematical model of shigella diarrhea is introduced in this paper. According to the pathogenesis of shigella, the model had been designed as an SIRS system comprising of a non-constant population. The ... -
SIRS model for the dynamics of non-typhoidal salmonella epidemics
(IJCER Online Publication Inc., http://www.ijceronline.com/, 2013-10)A continuous mathematical model of salmonella diarrhea is introduced in this paper. According to the pathogenesis of salmonella, the model had been designed as an SIRS system comprising of a non-constant population. The ... -
Prevalence and determinants of metabolic syndrome: a cross-sectional survey of general medical outpatient clinics using National Cholesterol Education Program-Adult Treatment Panel III criteria in Botswana
(Dove Medical Press, https://www.dovepress.com, 2016)Background: Low- and middle-income countries, including Botswana, are facing rising prevalence of obesity and obesity-related cardiometabolic complications. Very little information is known about clustering of cardiovascular ...
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