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Staunton, C., Adams, R., Anderson, D., Croxton, T., Kamuya, D., Munene, M. & Swanepoel, C. (2020) Protection of Personal Information Act 2013 and data protection for health research in South Africa. International Data Privacy Law. January:Online. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15109
The right to privacy is constitutionally protected in South Africa (SA) by virtue of section 14 of the Constitution. As a corollary to that,...
Bosch, T., Luescher, T.M. & Makhubu, N. (2020) Twitter and student leadership in South Africa: the case of #FeesMustFall. In: Taras, D. & Davis, R. (eds).Power Shift?: political leadership and social media. New York: Routledge. 220-233. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15175
With the rapid proliferation of social media around the world, social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are increasingly bec...
Kohrt, B.A., Rai, S., Vilakazi, K., Thapa, K., Bhardwaj, A. & Van Heerden, A. (2020) Procedures to select digital sensing technologies for passive data collection with children and their caregivers: qualitative cultural assessment in South Africa and Nepal. JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting. 2(1):1-22. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15094
Populations in low-resource settings with high childhood morbidity and mortality increasingly are being selected as beneficiaries for interv...
Louw, J.G., Olivier, L., Skeen, S., Van Heerden, A. & Tomlinson, M. (2020) Evaluation of a custom-developed computer game to improve executive functioning in 4- to 6-year-old children exposed to alcohol in utero: protocol for a feasibility randomized controlled trial. JMIR Research Protocols. 8(10):1-11. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15105
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is one of the most common causes of preventable intellectual disability, and the key associated defic...
Mchiza, Z.J-R., Parker, W-A., Sewpaul, R., Onagbiye, S.O. & Labadarios, D. (2020) Body image and the double burden of nutrition among South Africans from diverse sociodemographic backgrounds: SANHANES-1. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17:Online. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15120
This study investigated the associations between underweight, obesity and body image (BI) among 15+ year-old South Africans with diverse soc...
Makola, L., Mlangeni, L., Mabaso, M., Chibi, B., Sokhela, Z., Silimfe, Z., Seutlwadi, L., Naidoo, D.Y., Khumalo, S., Mncadi, A. & Zuma, K. (2020) Predictors of contraceptive use among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) aged 15 to 24 years in South Africa: results from the 2012 national population-based household survey. BMC Womens Health. 19:Online. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15103
Despite a variety of contraceptives being available for women in South Africa, a considerable number of adolescent girls and young women sti...