In this article, the author identifies the contribution of nursing research to building the capacity of healthcare services to care for the people of the Republic of South Africa. The author specifies the areas where nursing research can make a significant contribution and makes recommendations for enhancing nursing research in the emerging republic.
THE HIGHER prevalence of Sexually Trans mitted Diseases (STDs) such as syphilis and gonorrhoea is one of the health problems among the major diseases in Zambia today in spite of the available medical care for these diseases. In addition there is a new and more serious Autoimmune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among the STDs. Are there any measures that might successfully assist in bringing about the control of these diseases? In this paper an attempt has been made to answer this question in order to help the Health Authorities in their efforts to combat these diseases by implementing, as an 'Action Research', a simple Control Strategem making full use of the available resources and facilities. Nurses are seen as a major resource and school and other local buildings as possible facilities to be used in the strategem. The paper also suggests that all health workers should apply the discussed psychological approach guidelines in all activities of treatment, health education, contact- tracing and counselling.
In this paper, the author attempts to describe, through human ecology, the theoretical origins of healthy lifestyles in people of all societies followed by an exploration of how such lifestyles can be replaced by unhealthy ones. He has identified physical and mental injury, disease or illness, as the causes of these unhealthy lifestyles. In conclusion, he suggests the implementation of higher standards of care by nurses and other health workers as one way of restoring healthy lifestyles or delaying their deterioration in those people who acquire them.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.