Health Sciences

Sellers’ Midwifery 3e has been updated and aligned with international and national public health strategies to improve maternal and antenatal care as a sustainable development goal.

Teaching Physical Education and Sports Coaching is a teaching methodology textbook for the Physical Education component of the Life Orientation subject for the Intermediate, Senior, and FET phases. The text outlines the principles, history and development of Physical Education.

Global public health has improved vastly during the past 25 years, and especially in the survival of infants and young children. However, many of these children, particularly in Africa, continue to live in poverty and in unhealthy, unsupportive environments, and will not be able to meet their developmental potential.

Parents of babies and young children are constantly watching and wondering whether their children are reaching their developmental milestones within expected time frames. It is important to keep in mind that each child is unique and that no two children will arrive at these milestones simultaneously.

Sports in Africa reflect a complex, colonial history in which recent democratic changes have set out to redistribute wealth, reclaim notions of an African heritage and celebrate diversity.

A coherent "big picture" of the evolving health system in South Africa, along with the ensuing changes and challenges. Attempts to contextualise these developments historically and globally, and to critically assess them.

Community nursing covers communicable health problems, management of community health services, community health practice and assessment, epidemiology and chronic health problems, the diagnosis and management of HIV/AIDS patients, legislation, and regulations pertinent to the practice of community health.

Primary health care in South Africa is mainly delivered by clinical nurse practitioners with the support of family physicians.

This title suggests practical guidelines for ensuring quality in learning provision.