Browsing by Author "van Huyssteen, M"

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    Access to chronic medicines: patients’ preferences for a last kilometre medicine delivery service in Cape Town, South Africa
    (Springer Nature, 2021) Adams, S; Mulubwa, M; van Huyssteen, M
    : Chronic patients are required to access their chronic medicines on a regular basis, often only to refill their repeat prescriptions. Adherence to chronic medicines is challenging and has stimulated health care providers to devise differentiated service delivery models of care to decentralise chronic medicine distribution to decrease the frequency of medicine collection at health care facilities. One such option includes a last kilometre medicine delivery service. This study investigated chronic patients’ preferences for a last kilometre medicine delivery service model.
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    Evaluating pharmacy students’ knowledge and skills in reproductive, maternal, new-born and child health care at a South African university
    (Springer Nature, 2021) Egieyeh, E; van Huyssteen, M; Coetzee, R
    Maternal and child mortality is a global concern and one of South Africa’s quadruple burdens of disease. As easily accessible frontline healthcare workers, pharmacists play an important role in the continuum of maternal and child health (MCH) care according to recommendations by international health regulatory bodies. Pharmacy schools are obliged to train pharmacy students to meet the priority health needs of the population so that graduates are ‘fit for purpose’. The baseline study aimed to evaluate the knowledge and skills of 2017 final year pharmacy students who were exposed to a fragmented MCH care curriculum at a university in South Africa to inform curriculum review.