Opportunities for technologically driven dialogical health communication for participatory interventions: Perspectives from male peer navigators in rural South Africa

Gibbs, Andrew; Gumede, Dumsani; Luthuli, Manono; Xulu, Zakhele; Washington, Laura; Sikweyiya, Yandisa; Adeagbo, Oluwafemi; Shahmanesh, Maryam

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114539

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“…For example, it has been used to provide training on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV 19 and for provision of training and support when delivering interventions to increase uptake of HIV testing. 20 The ability to deliver online training and support to providers has been particularly critical during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. 21…”

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Measuring and evaluating sexual health in the era of digital health: challenges and opportunities

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Digital health has become increasingly embedded within sexual health service delivery and is now an established part of the user journey. It can support the provision of information and access to care across the sexual health continuum and facilitate the delivery of differentiated care with tailored and layered interventions that meet an individual's and target populations' need. However, despite advances in digital health, many challenges remain in the measurement and evaluation of sexual health. Reaching underserved populations, ensuring that both the intervention and the outcomes being measured are appropriate, and consistent collection of data (across settings and over time) are all potential obstacles to a full realisation of these opportunities. In order for digital health to improve sexual health and wellbeing, and reduce morbidity, the following need to occur: (1) ensure the necessary digital, health care, laboratory, legal and regulatory and surveillance infrastructure is in place to provide access to those with a sexual health need; (2) empowerment of end users and communities to take control of their own health through engagement in the development of interventions, and to ensure that outcomes of importance are measured; (3) tailoring and layering of interventions to provide equitable access to care; (4) integrating the digital ecosystem with the existing healthcare and external ecosystem; (5) measure and evaluate the unmet needs, gaps and quality of the experience, taking a realist evaluation approach; and (6) measure and evaluate the economic and distributional impacts associated with digital services or interventions in sexual health.

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“…In addition, the aim of any responsible and pragmatic healthcare provider -the South African government in this instance -is to offer services of high quality even when multilingual and multicultural settings may present challenges to mutual understanding between doctors, nurses, radiographers, patients and so forth (Gibbs et al, 2022). Hence, for years, research in social medicine has been addressing linguistic multiplicity predominantly from the perspective of obstacles that it created for effective healthcare.…”

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The Ramifications of the Neglect of Indigenous South African Languages by the South African Government: COVID-19 as a Case Study

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2023

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Since the outbreak of COVID-19 towards the end of 2019 and its proliferation across the globe, the lives of many populations have been disrupted, causing intense turbulence in social, economic and political dimensions. With that in mind, this article reflects on and problematises the neglect of the indigenous South African languages by the national government in mainstream communications on COVID-19. Qualitative research inquiry is utilised to explore the importance of indigenous languages in South Africa’s healthcare system. By the same token, an attempt to underline some of the predominant challenges within the selected phenomenon is argumentatively presented using a scoping literature review as a research technique. The findings and discussions indicate that the desolation of indigenous South African languages can be regarded as a repetitive episode of the (post)colonial injustices pertaining to indigenous South African languages as well as the healthcare system. Thus, the concluding remarks emphasise the urgency of inculcating indigenous South African languages into all communication systems, with special reference to the healthcare system.

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Opportunities for technologically driven dialogical health communication for participatory interventions: Perspectives from male peer navigators in rural South Africa

Cited by 6 publications

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Measuring and evaluating sexual health in the era of digital health: challenges and opportunities

Measuring and evaluating sexual health in the era of digital health: challenges and opportunities

The Ramifications of the Neglect of Indigenous South African Languages by the South African Government: COVID-19 as a Case Study

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