Temperature records are being broken in Africa and around the world.
- Distinguished Professor, Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University
Les systèmes de soins de santé primaires doivent devenir plus résistants à mesure que les effets du changement climatique s'aggravent.
Primary health care systems must become more resilient as the effects of climate change worsen.
Workplace-based interventions could make a substantial contribution to reducing the burden of noncommunicable diseases in the country.
South Africa has the potential to improve primary health care.
Family physicians have started to play a key role in the district health system in South Africa.
When day zero arrives in Cape Town, the routine surveillance systems that monitor disease outbreaks will be enhanced to pick up new diseases.
How will the World Health Organisation’s Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus deal with the mounting challenges? Africa’s academics have some tips.
Africa is the last continent to embrace the need to train family physicians as a key component of the primary health care team and district hospitals.
The unanticipated public health consequences of unsustainable development reminds the world that the issues are not in the distant future, but instead face us now.
Hypertension is one of the leading causes of cardiovascular diseases such as stroke, heart attacks, heart failure and peripheral vascular disease. And in the developing world, it is on the rise.
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