Department of Health Studies

Prof MC Matlakala

College of Human Sciences
School of Social Sciences
Department: Health Studies
Chair
Tel: 012 429 6770
Fax: 012 429 6688
E-mail: matlamc@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • D Lit et Phil
  • PhD Nursing

Fields of academic interests

  • Health Services Management,  Critical Care Nursing, Teaching and Learning, Assessment of learning

Journal articles

  • Matlakala MC M 2018, Implementing health care reform: Implications for performance of public hospitals in central Ethiopia, DOI: 10.7189/jogh.08.010403
  • Matlakala MC 2017, Attitudes to, and knowledge and use of contraception among female learners attending a high school in Mdantsane, DOI: 10.25159/2520-5293/685
  • Matlakala MC 2017, Beyond patient care: The impact of healthcare reform on job satisfaction in the Ethiopian public healthcare sector, DOI: 10.1186/s12960-017-0188-1
  • Matlakala MC 2016, Intensive care unit nurse managers' views regarding nurse staffing in their units in South Africa, DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2015.07.006
  • Matlakala MC 2016, Nurses' experiences of inpatients suicide in a general hospital, DOI: 10.1016/j.hsag.2015.10.001
  • Matlakala MC 2016, Proposing evidence-based strategies to strengthen implementation of healthcare reform in resource-limited settings: a summative analysis, DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012582  
  • Matlakala MC 2015, Strategies to address management challenges in larger intensive care units, Journal of Nursing Management, DOI: 10.1111/jonm.12240
  • Matlakala MC 2015, The views of intensive care nurses regarding short-term deployment, Curationis, DOI: 10.4102/curationis.v38i1.1478
  • Matlakala MC 2014, Challenges encountered by critical care unit managers in the large intensive care units, Curationis, DOI: 10.4102/curationis.v37i1.1146
  • Matlakala MC 2013, Collective patient behaviours derailing ART roll-out in KwaZulu-Natal: Perspectives of health care providers, AIDS Research and Therapy, DOI: 10.1186/1742-6405-10-20

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

  • Director WHOCC: Department of health Studies, Unisa, TAU Fellow,
  • South African Nursing Council
  • STTI,
  • Critical Care Society of Southern Africa
  • Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa