Practices, Housing and Diseases Within Indigenous Poultry Production in Eastern Cape, South Africa

Male Circumcision Policy, Practices and Services in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Case Study

Body weight, eating practices and nutritional knowledge amongst university nursing students, Eastern Cape, South Africa

How to cite this article: Van den Berg VL, Okeyo AP, Dannhauser A, Nel M. Body weight, eating practices and nutritional knowledge amongst university nursing students, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Afr J Prm Health Care Fam Med. 2012;4(1), Art. #323, 9 pages. http:// dx.doi.org/10.4102/phcfm. v4i1.323 Background: Health care workers need to be equipped to deal with the increasing obesity and obesi...

Medicinal plants and traditional practices of Xhosa people in the Transkei region of Eastern Cape, South Africa

An ethnobotanical survey was carried out in the former Transkei homeland to document the unwritten knowledge related to traditional uses of medicinal plants. The indigenous people of Transkei, Eastern Cape, South Africa depend on the natural plant resources from their environment for medicine, food, pastoral, cultural and religious needs. This area, mainly inhabited by the Xhosa people, has rem...

blubber of Cape fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus off the Eastern Cape coast of South Africa

The concentration of heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Pb, Ni and Zn) and organochlorine contaminants (PCBs, DDT, DDE and DDD) in the blubber of 12 adult male Cape fur seals, Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus, inadvertently caught in trawl nets off the Eastern Cape coast of South Africa during commercial fishing operations between May 1993 and October 1994, was investigated. The median and range of concentra...

deaths rates in public hospitals of eastern cape province of south africa.

south africa (sa) is experiencing a rapid epidemiologic transition as a consequence of political, economic and social changes. in this study we described, based on hospital data, the mortality patterns of non communicable diseases (ncd), communicable diseases (cd), the ncd/cd ratios, and the trends of deaths.we conducted a cross-sectional survey of all deaths occurring in several public hospita...