Background. The classification of nursing as a female-gendered profession, along with patriarchally determined cultural gender roles, makes it difficult for men to select nursing as a career and to excel in their caring ...

The government of a country is responsible and accountable for the provision of quality healthcare services to its citizens. Teenage pregnancy and its complications occur worldwide. Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (HDP) ...

Background: Preeclampsia is one of the causes of maternal deaths and is also responsible for complications such as premature births worldwide. In South Africa, hypertensive disorders cause 14% of all maternal deaths. ...

Background. The concept of intimate care is not freely used in nursing education and practice. Nursing students provide basic nursing care that requires physical and psychological closeness to diverse patients. During the ...

Purpose – This paper reports on research into the skills and services required to ensure the sustainability of citizen science as a service in university libraries. Design/methodology/approach – A quantitative research ...

Actors’ worldviews are critical when developing strategies; not every actor holds the same problem perception and solution. This is the case with wildlife trafficking. Not only does the state have an interest in safeguarding ...

What role can non-diplomats play in managing and altering power relations in transboundary river basins? We answer this by investigating the lobbying eff orts of indigenous peoples to stop the construction of the planned ...

Day Zero was a purposefully designed narrative in political communication to change middle-class water consumption behaviour in a highly visible metropolitan context of persistent drought. As an “affective fact”, however it ...

In recent years, the water-energy-food nexus gained traction in science and policy debates to address the relationships between water, energy and food sectors. Inspired by Political Ecology thinking, we advocate for ...