Browsing Faculty of Medicine by Author "Setlhare, Vincent"
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Assessment of prescribing practices at the primary healthcare facilities in Botswana with an emphasis on antibiotics: findings and implications
Mashalla, Yohana; Setlhare, Vincent; Sepako, Enoch; Tiroyakgosi, Celda; Kgatlwane, Joyce; Chuma, Mpo; Godman, Brian; Massele, Amos (Wiley,https://www.wiley.com/en-us, 2017-12-01)Background and Aims: Inappropriate drug prescribing has increased especially in developing countries where systems for monitoring medicine use are not well developed. This increases the rate of antimicrobial resistance. ... -
Association between depression in carers and malnutrition in children aged 6 months to 5 years
Motlhatlhedi, Keneilwe; Ganiyu, Adewale B.; Firth, Jachauline A.; Setlhare, Vincent (Aosis, http://www.aosis.org, 2017-01-30)Background: Childhood malnutrition is an important risk factor for child mortality and underlies close to 50% of child deaths worldwide. Previous studies have found an association between maternal depression ... -
Availability of guidelines and policy documents for enhancing performance of practitioners at the Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities in Gaborone, Tlokweng and Mogoditshane, Republic of Botswana
Mashalla, Yohana James; Sepako, Enoch; Setlhare, Vincent; Chuma, Mpho; Massele, Amos Yared; Bulang, Maureen (Academic Journals, http://www.academicjournals.org/, 2016-08)This study aimed to determine the profile and availability of policies and guidelines as reference documents at Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities in Gaborone and its surrounding in Botswana using the World Health ... -
The experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS in Gaborone, Botswana: stigma, its consequences and coping mechanisms
Setlhare, Vincent; Wright, Anne; Couper, Ian (Aosis,https://aosis.co.za/, 2014)Background: This study was carried out in Bontleng, Extension 14 and Old Naledi, which are low-income residential areas of Gaborone, Botswana. The aim of the study was to explore the experiences of people living with human ... -
The Impact of China’s lockdown policy on the incidence of COVID-19: an interrupted time series analysis
Molefi, Mooketsi; Tlhakanelo, John T.; Phologolo, Thabo; Hamda, Shimeles G.; Masupe, Tiny; Tsima, Billy; Setlhare, Vincent; Mashalla, Yohana; Wiebe, Douglas J. (Hindawi, https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/, 2021-10-28)Background. Policy changes are often necessary to contain the detrimental impact of epidemics such as those brought about by coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In the earlier phases of the emergence of COVID-19, China was the ... -
A novel and fatal method of copper sulphate poisoning
Motlhatlhedi, Keneilwe; Firth, Jaccqueline A.; Setlhare, Vincent; Kaguamba, Jackson K.; Mmolaatshepe, Mmapula (Elsevier, https://www.elsevier.com/, 2014-04)Introduction: Copper sulphate is widely used around the world as a pesticide and seed fungicide. Many cases of accidental intoxication with this substance have been reported among farm workers who have absorbed large amounts ... -
Patient-centredness: meaning and propriety in the Botswana, African and non-Western contexts
Setlhare, Vincent; Couper, Ian; Wright, Anne (Aosis, https://aosis.co.za/, 2014-02-20)Patient-centredness is a key principle in Family Medicine. It is covered in a Family Medicine textbook by McWhinney and textbooks edited by Goh et al., Rakel and Rakel3 and Mash and Blitz-Lindeque, to name but a few. ... -
Reflections on primary health care and family medicine in Botswana
Setlhare, Vincent (Aosis, https://aosis.co.za/, 2014-08-14)Primary Care should be the ‘central function and main focus of a country’s health system‘.The Ouagadougu Declaration similarly states that the vehicle for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and addressing the health ...