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Socioeconomic inequalities in health: chronic disease prevalence, health care utilization, health expenditure and life course perspective in Botswana
(Unpublished, 2019)
The debate on socioeconomic inequalities in health is currently dominating the research and policy agenda in many countries. In Botswana, empirical evidence on the socioeconomic inequalities linked to prevalence of NCDs, ...
Financial management in some Botswana Pentecostal Churches
(www.ub.bw, 2019-03)
Financial matters nowadays play an important role in Pentecostal churches in Botswana. Gradually more churches are caught up in financial disgraces of incomparable proportions. The aim of this study, therefore, was to ...
An analysis of the effects of occupational stress in Military operational readiness: a case of the Botswana Defence Force
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2019-12)
Occupational stressors exist in every organisation though their degree may vary from one individual and occupation to another respectively. Some stressors are common to all occupations whereas some are unique to specific ...
The perceptions of Junior Secondary School Teachers and students on the infusion of safe male circumcision education into the religious education syllabus
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2019-06)
Safe Male Circumcision (SMC) is one of the contemporary issues in Botswana in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Both government and the private sector continue to fight the HIV and AIDS pandemic. Currently, there are school ...
Testing the purchasing power parity theory for Pula/Rand and Pula/US dollar exchange rates in Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2019-05)
This paper tested the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) theory between Pula/Rand and Pula/US dollar exchange rates in Botswana. The cointegration method, error correction model (ECM) and autoregressive distribution lag model ...
The impact of health status on economic growth in Botswana – a simultaneous model approach
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2019-05)
Human capital most especially health status has been gaining traction as an economic engine in economic growth whereby it is both an input and output of economic growth. Growth models using health variables do state the ...
Clinical outcomes of patients with rifampicin resistant other than multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Botswana; a 2006-2014 retrospective cohort analysis
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2019-06-07)
Background
Rifampicin resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) cases were historically managed using different drug-regimen depending on the resistance patterns. RR-TB other than MDR-TB were treated using modified regimen (first-line ...
Prospects and possibilities of accreditation standards as quality measure of early childhood education in Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2019-06)
Despite many efforts targeted at bringing quality in the provision of Early Childhood Education (ECE) globally, Botswana still lags behind. In order to regulate and monitor ECE programs to ensure quality standards are ...
Experimental and numerical evaluation of a solar dryer for drying banana (Musa spp)
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2019-10)
A forced convection indirect type solar dryer having a double pass flat collector that can be used for drying bananas was designed, constructed and tested experimentally and numerically evaluated. The study mainly tried ...
Health seeking behaviour of caregivers of children under five years old with diarrhoea in Maun
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2019-09-11)
Background
Diarrhoea contributes significantly to the global burden of disease and associated mortality in children under the age of five. Despite the availability of cost effective treatment and preventive measures, ...