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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"impoverished communities"”.
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Drugs, police inefficiencies and gangsterism in violently impoverished communities like Overcome
… Overcome is representative of other violently impoverished Cape Town communities with its high rate of unemployment, low quality of education, domestic abuse, stagnant housing crisis, lack of access to intellectual and material resources or opportunities for personal growth, gangsterism, …
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Accessing health care in impoverished communities: The experiences of women living with hypertension and related conditions in the townships of Kwatsaduza, Gauteng province
This study explores the experiences of women living with hypertension and related medical conditions in accessing healthcare services in the townships of Kwatsaduza in Gauteng. The objectives of the study are to: understand the effects of hypertension and related conditions on women living in …
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Health Promotion for the Community Advocate
… promotion for obesity and chronic diseases in impoverished communities. Obesity and chronic diseases have displaced infectious diseases as the most immediate threat to morbidity and mortality in the United States. As a product of a sedentary lifestyle and a diet of overabundance, obesity and …
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Corporate Social Responsibility a contribution to development? : a study examining a major company's CSR initiative in Cape Town
… based on a main concern with the role of CSR in impoverished communities and whether CSR is contributing to development. Using a case study approach, semi-structured interviews as well as document analysis and observation have been conducted in order to achieve the research objectives.
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"""Sometimes I Give and Sometimes I Get"": Social Networks and Support Among Low -Income African-American Women"
… African American women living in two severely impoverished communities in a large, urban city. It looks at how these networks function to assist women in their everyday lives. Using qualitative, in-depth interviews this study identified several important aspects of African American women's …
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Competition Between Microfinance Institutions and the Formal Banking Sector
Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) lend to impoverished communities with the goal of spurring increases in income, consumption, business activity, and decision making power. My research looks at how the formal banking sector responds to MFI branch entry. I use data from a randomized control study …
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Fertile ground: enhancing local food production in Delft, South Africa
… farming as a lucrative business in an impoverished community. It is intended to inspire people to transform the landscape of local food production and sustainable agricultural practice. Most impoverished communities tend to feel the effects of a formal food system that is set up to …
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Exploring the Relationship Between Critical Resource Variables and School Performance in Secondary Schools of Mukono Uganda
… into school performance particularly in impoverished communities of the developing countries. The primary purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between school-level financial, physical, and human resources on school performance as measured by aggregated UCE exam scores in …
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Evaluating Mending Mamre: An Animal Welfare Intervention
… is necessary for South Africa, especially in impoverished communities lacking resources and education to care for their pets responsibly. These programmes are often multi-dimensional in nature and aim to improve animal welfare in different ways. Sterilisation is often the first step but is not …
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Building Nurture: Care and Protection of the Growing through the Built Environment
… the country lies in the nurturing of its growing communities, especially its youth. Nurturance as an attempt to care and protect that which is growing both at the community and individual scale. This project aims to find a way in which to achieve nurturance through the built environment and tests …
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Community involvement in ecotourism
… natural resources as well as the development of impoverished communities. Active involvement of communities in the planning process and in operations management is vital in order to achieve the development and conservation goals of ecotourism. However, these activities are extremely rare because …
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Assessing the Effectiveness of the Microcredit and Integrated Asset Building as a Social Approach to Poverty Reduction in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
… ensuring that the fruits of growth reach impoverished communities, and protecting vulnerable segments of the impoverished population. This study looks the role of microcredits, which has received increasing attention as a means to combat poverty. The advent of neoliberalism led to advances …
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FROM CELL TO SYMBOL: A BIOCULTURAL STUDY OF ANEMIA AND SUBJECTIVITY AMONG THE POQOMCHI' MAYA IN GUATEMALA
… disease, injury, or pregnancy. Conversely, in impoverished communities anemia has multiple causes, goes untreated, and becomes chronic and endemic. Given anemia’s global prevalence and varied etiology, it stands to reason that anemia may be differently experienced biologically and culturally. A …
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Women's experiences of receiving a child's fetal alcohol spectrum disorder diagnosis: a Western Cape study
… FASD reported in the world, especially among the impoverished communities in the Western Cape region, with rates of up to 208.8 per 1000 first grade learners being reported. The need for screening, surveillance and immediate prevention work has been stressed. Limited research has been conducted on …
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Development of a framework to guide community engagement in paramedic education and training in the Western Cape
… of culturally and socio-economically divided communities against the backdrop of slow economic growth, limited resource capacity, and high emergency care caseloads. In such settings, community engagement, as a key function of the higher education mandate, presents an opportunity for …
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The geography of inequality in Cape Town: a case study of access to water in Khayelitsha
… further perpetuate water inequality in the impoverished communities of Khayelitsha?” Key findings revealed that water inequality in Khayelitsha may have been created by apartheid spatial planning, but is sustained by the disregard for poor communities by the local government through unequal, …
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A theory-driven evaluation of an early childhood school readiness programme in an under-served area in the Western Cape Province
… of 0-6 years, who live in poor and marginalised communities where access and resources for care and stimulation are limited, was the programme of interest. A small sample theory-driven evaluation approach was applied to this programme to assess its viability to alleviate service access issues and …
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Geospatial Analysis of Droughts, Rice and Wheat Production, and Agrarian Vulnerability: A District-Level Study of the self-calibrated Palmer Drought Severity Index in India
… were used as proxies to identify districts where impoverished communities reside. Correspondingly, among global change topics, there is growing literature around the concept of “double exposure”, which suggests that certain communities are vulnerable to a multiplicity of Social and environmental …
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Treatment adherence among primary care patients in a historically disadvantaged community in the Western Cape : a qualititative study
… Patients with chronic illnesses who reside in impoverished communities face particular challenges in terms of managing the often complex aspects of their treatment. The sample for the study was selected from patients diagnosed with diabetes or hypertension attending public health clinics in the …
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Strengthening the implementation of early childhood development policies to improve quality
… This is extremely observant in and among impoverished communities. Access to early childhood development programmes is inequitable in South Africa. Evidence has shown that the poorest children are mostly affected due to their diverse socio-economic conditions, historical backgrounds and …
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