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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Mitchell's Plain"”.
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The initial unemployment duration of immigrants to Khayelitsha/Mitchell's Plain
The well-established internal migration streams from the poor neighbouring provinces to Cape Town are driven by the perception of urban opportunities for employment and a better life. This paper serves to broaden the understanding of the assimilation of immigrants to the Cape Town labour market by …
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Women abuse : exploring women's narratives of violence and resistance in Mitchell's Plain
… All research participants resided in Mitchell's Plain or surrounding areas. In-depth, narrative interviews were used to investigate women's experiences of violence from their partners. The interview topics included women's daily concerns and problems, their experiences of and responses …
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Protecting livelihoods? : a study of informal traders at Mitchell's Plain town centre market
The implementation of a new citywide Informal Trading By-law and a permit system for registering traders left over 200 traders without a space to trade. Using multiple qualitative research methods, document review, interviews, photography and observation, this study seeks to highlight the …
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The prevalence and rehabilitation needs of individuals with locomotor disability in Mitchell's Plain
… of individuals with locomotor disability in Mitchell's Plain, for planning intervention strategies as part of this community based rehabilitation service. A cross sectional study design was employed. A stratified proportional cluster sampling technique was used to select 36 clusters resulting …
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Early Childhood Caries in children 12-24 months old in Mitchell's Plain, South Africa
… childhood caries in children 12-24 months in the Mitchell's Plain district of the Western Cape.Objectives are to determine: a) The prevalence and pattern of early childhood caries. b) The relation between early childhood caries and infant feeding practices. c) The relation between early childhood …
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An analysis of adherence & equity in access to TB services in Mitchell's Plain, South Africa
… Observed Treatment, Short-Course (DOTS) in Mitchell's Plain, South Africa. Using a comprehensive framework of access, in-depth interviews were conducted with 334 TB patients across five facilities in Mitchell's Plain, to assess barriers across the dimensions of availability, affordability …
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Client knowledge, attitudes and practices to cervical screening in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town, South Africa
… cancer of women aged 25 years and older in Mitchell's Plain, Western Cape Province. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was undertaken among clients attending primary health care facilities in the Mitchell's Plain district, Cape Town, Western Cape Province. The study population consisted of …
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Gender differences in the motivations and barriers of entrepreneurs: evidence from a survey in Mitchell's plain
The central premise of this study is that entrepreneurs and the services they provide can fulfil a significant role in the attempts by the South African government to achieve sustainable economic growth and counter unemployment simultaneously. 1 The former is further supported by the assertion that …
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The effects of fluoride levels in potable water: case studies in the Northern Cape and Mitchell's Plain
Dental caries is a multi-factorial disease that affects everyone irrespective of race, class or gender, however, the burden of the disease is often found in children from lower socio-economic backgrounds. The nature of the disease is such that it can be prevented. Various international studies on …
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Assessing access barriers to Tuberculosis (TB) and Antiretroviral (ARV) treatment in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town South Africa
… and Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) services in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town South Africa. Secondary cross-sectional data was used for this purpose. Access to TB and HIV treatment has been given priority because the two diseases have had a massive and negative impact on public health in the …
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Intergenerational occupational mobility among blacks in the Mitchell's Plain Magisterial District, Cape Town : evidence from the Khayelitsha
Includes bibliographical references.
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A quality improvement cycle for acute bronchospasm in primary health care: Mitchell's Plain Community Health Centre, Cape Town
… of morbidity and mortality in South Africa. Mitchell’s Plain is a large suburb in Cape Town, with a population of approximately 320 000 people. A previous study in 2006 indicated that 15.7% of patients that presented to Mitchell’s Plain Community Health Care casualty were for an acute …
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Applying fuzzy-set theoretic poverty measures within a developmental local government context : the Khayelitsha - Mitchell's Plain case study
… multidimensional poverty in the Khayelitsha Mitchell's Plain (KMP) magisterial district using the Census 2001 dataset. Our results show that unemployment, housing and low incomes need the most attention in KMP. Furthermore, the fuzzy-set measures, which view poverty as opaque and vague, yield …
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Being a teen, tween and in-between girl in Mitchell's Plain: toward a heterogenous conception of youth agency in a Global South city
… - with four teenage girls from a high school in Mitchell's Plain, this study offers an enriched approach to a conception of youth agency, by overlaying a youth study with a theoretical conception of agency. The girls' everyday accounts show that as young teenagers they are waiting to enter the …
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The contraceptive knowledge, attitudes and practice among women seeking induced abortion in Mitchell's Plain District Hospital, women's health clinic, Western Cape, South Africa
… descriptive study which was conducted in Mitchell's Plain District Hospital, among women seeking induced abortion. Women aged 18 years and older seeking elective Termination of Pregnancy were included in the study. Convenience sampling method was used to select the participants women …
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Architects of our own destiny : profiling opportunities for reconciliation and restorative justice within the context of the Presidential Urban Renewal Programme in Mitchell's Plain
… African Parliament on 02 February 2000, that Mitchell's Plain and Khayelitsha in the Western Cape would be the focus of the Presidential Urban Renewal Programme, Mitchell's Plain had been in existence for 25 years. By this time [2000], the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) had …
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The epidemiology of asthma and wheeze in primary school children in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town, with special reference to the role of environmental tobacco smoke
… (90% response rate), aged 7 to 9 years, in Mitchell's Plain, a large, working class area of Cape Town Five empirical questions were asked: 1) is the prevalence of asthma and wheezing in primary school children? (2) What is the reliability (across two questionnaires) of questions about …
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Towards the identification of a contextually-relevant school hearing screening protocol in the Western Cape
… as a community-based Audiologist in the Mitchell's Plain sub-district in Cape Town, South Africa. During this time, I worked closely with the local school nurses and witnessed first-hand the many challenges that these health workers are faced with. Through my collaborative work with the …
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A survey of the information seeking behaviour of the dental faculty lecturers and students at the University of the Western Cape's Oral Health Centre Library, in Mitchell's Plain
… library at the University of the Western Cape in Mitchell’s Plain. It studied users and staff of the Oral Health Centre library and the services provided by the library. The main aim of the survey was to determine the information seeking behaviour of users of the Oral Health Centre library at the …
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Incidence and Prevalence Of Renal Dysfunction In Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Naïve Patients Starting A Tenofovir (TDF) Based ART Regimen In Mitchell's Plain Community Health Centre (CHC) ARV Clinic
… patients initiated on TDF based ART regimen in Mitchell's Plain CHC ARV Clinic and make recommendations. Methodology: The study was conducted by reviewing retrospective records of all ARV naïve HIV positive adults initiated on TDF based ARV regimen from January 2016 to June 2016. The creatinine …
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