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2023-06-07 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Dept health, Corporate

Collaborative efforts to address injury mortality in South Africa

The Unisa Institute for Social and Health Studies, the South African Medical Research Council and the Mpumalanga Province's Department of Health, held a colloquium on Injury Mortality Surveillance: 2019-2022. The colloquium identified road traffic crashes and interpersonal violent incidents as priority causes.

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2022-09-29 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Dept health, Corporate

Unisa cares for the elderly

The CA600 team from the Department of Health Studies in the College of Human Sciences recently visited the Centurion Care for the Aged in Olievenhoutbosch as part of their engaged scholarship key performance area mandate.

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2022-09-01 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Dept health, Corporate

Addressing teenage pregnancy and sexual health in schools

The Department of Health Studies in the College of Human Sciences recently went on a site visit to Tzaneen in the Limpopo Province to provide training for a local NGO inundated with teenage pregnancy and sexual health cases in schools.

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