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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

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Health / Medical

Thirty years of rural health research: South Africa’s Agincourt studies offer unique insights

    By Stephen Tollman, University of the Witwatersrand and Kathleen Kahn, University of the Witwatersrand   In 1992 a group of academics from the University of the Witwatersrand introduced a health and socio-demographic surveillance system in remote, rural South Africa to track and understand health and wellbeing in these environments. This initiative built on pioneering work by a Wits team to establish a health systems development unit in a […]

todayFebruary 6, 2024 28

Opinion Pieces

Literature inspired my medical career: Why the humanities are needed in health care

Medicine is as much about the human experience as it is about biology. Jonathan Knowles/Stone via Getty Images Irène Mathieu, University of Virginia While there is a long history of doctor-poets – one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician – few people seem to know this or understand the power of combining the humanities and medicine. As a published poet and scholar of the […]

todayJanuary 10, 2024 18

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