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Dr. Saretha Brüssow
Contribution Editor: Radiography
Dr. Saretha Brüssow holds a PhD in Higher Education Studies and a Masters in Health Professions Education. Her radiography
qualifications include the disciplines Diagnostic Radiography, Radiation Therapy and Nuclear Medicine. She taught at the
Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT) and is currently the institutional manager of teaching and learning
in the Directorate Institutional Research and Academic Planning (DIRAP) at the University of the Free State (UFS). The
last five years she specialised in higher education studies with a specific focus on learning facilitation and students
underprepared for higher education. Her favourite pastime is spending on trial hiking and reading South African literature
and poetry.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Saretha Brüssow for her CEU contribution to eCPD.
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Aspects of Women's Health
This chapter aims to assess the progress, strategies, achievements, challenges, gaps and
policies that have been in place between 1994-1999 to improve women's health. It presents
a review of some of the Department of Health's strategies that are aimed at improving
women's health.
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The effect of motivational interviewing on weight loss and glycaemic control in women
We sought to determine whether adding motivational interviewing to a behavioral
weight control program improves weight loss outcomes and glycemic control for overweight
women with type 2 diabetes. We conducted a randomized, controlled, clinical trial in which
participants all received an 18-month, group-based behavioral obesity treatment and were
randomized to individual sessions of motivational interviewing or attention control
(total of five sessions) as an adjunct to the weight control program.
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Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women
The etiology of chronic pelvic pain in women is poorly understood. Although a
specific diagnosis is not found in the majority of cases, some common diagnoses
include endometriosis, adhesions, irritable bowel syndrome, and interstitial cystitis.
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Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Pre- and Post delivery
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) affects 7% of all pregnancies and is defined as carbohydrate intolerance during gestation.
This review addresses screening recommendations, diagnosis, and treatment of GDM.
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Are women more forgiving than men? The relationship between empathy and forgiveness.
Much research has shown that women are more empathic than men. Yet, women and men are equally forgiving.
However, it is not clear whether empathy is more important to forgiveness for men or for women. The purpose
of the present study was to examine gender differences in levels of empathy and forgiveness and the extent to
which the association of empathy and forgiveness differed by gender.
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Health Maintenance for Postmenopausal Women
Menopause is the permanent cessation of menstruation resulting from the
loss of ovarian and follicular activity. It usually occurs when women reach
their early 50s. Vasomotor symptoms and vaginal dryness are frequently reported
during menopause. Estrogen is the most effective treatment for management of hot
flashes and night sweats.
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Assessing Breast Cancer Risk in Women
Understanding modifiable and nonmodifiable factors that increase or decrease breast
cancer risk allows family physicians to counsel women appropriately. Nonmodifiable
factors associated with increased breast cancer risk include...
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Three-Day Womens Health Conference
Johannesburg:
08 - 10 September 2010
The Cancer Association of South Africa is hosting a three-day Women’s Health
Conference in celebration of CANSA’s Women’s Health Month. Theme: Awareness, Coping and Beyond –
A Cancer Conference for our Time.
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SASTM Congress
Cape Town:
15 - 17 October 2010
Climbing Mt Kilimanjaro is becoming more and more popular. As Tanzania is regarded by the
WHO as being at risk for yellow fever, travellers to Tanzania must be vaccinated against yellow
fever. This policy is followed by the National Department of Health.
The evidence though makes one doubt the validity of such a policy, and therefore the necessity
for vaccination. No cases of yellow fever in Tanzania have been reported to the WHO and there
have been no reported cases of yellow fever in travellers to Tanzania.
If the traveller is not vaccinated, there are two possible outcomes – refusal by the airline
to board (or not being granted a visa) and being vaccinated on return at OR Tambo airport,
which also is not scientifically correct practice.
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Women's health is an issue which has been taken up by many feminists, especially where reproductive health is concerned.
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Physicians that have to decide whether an illness is terminal think that...
According to a new editorial, the world can control and ultimately end the HIV/AIDS pandemic through a...
Life-saving interventions can save 11 million African women, children over next five years: Countdown report
UCLA scientists have identified for the first time a cell-of-origin for human prostate cancer
The study used population-based alcohol-related deaths from January 1969 to...