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A review of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: T Kerry --- uMgungundlovu Health District,The IMCI approach ensures that a comprehensive and accurate assessment is made of a sick child using simple yet reliable clinical signs at the first contact level. Also doctors, especially those working in the public sector need to understand the... -
Enteropathogens associated with the seasonal fuctuations in plasma sodium and potassium levels in childhood diarrhoea
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection • Authors: V Pillay-van Wyk --- Burden of Disease Research Unit, G Swingler --- School of Child and Adolescent Health,This paper aims to assess the clinical, nutritional, microbiological, environmental and socio-economic determinants that have a seasonal distribution, or are potential confounders of a seasonal association of previously described seasonal fuctuations in plasma sodium and potassium concentrations in children with... -
Environmental health factors associated with diarrhoeal diseases among under-five children in the Sebeta town of Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: AI Mohammed --- Medical and Health Services Department, Ethiopia Li Zungu --- Department of Health Studies, South AfricaThe aim of this study was to assess and explore household environmental health factors associated with the occurrence of diarrhoea experienced by children under five years of age in Sebeta town of Ethiopia. A cross-sectional study, using stratified random sampling... -
Necrotising migratory erythema leading to the diagnosis of a metastatic glucagonoma without diabetes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: Rahm Makan --- , South Africa Cloete Van Vuuren --- , South AfricaA case of necrotising migratory erythema (NME), which is one of the distinctive paraneoplastic skin manifestations associated with the glucagonoma syndrome, is described and discussed. In 80% of all patients with glucagonoma, NME is the first clinical sign. The glucagonoma...