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As part of an Health Impact Assessment (HIA) project in Angola, a health baseline study needed to be conducted. Angola Resources Consultants (ARC) outsourced the desk-based research to Epi Result. This article discusses the steps that were taken in order to come to a final report on the baseline health status of the community in the region.
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In September-October 2011 I did a 5-week online course on Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) from Village Earth (Colorado State University). The course provided me with lots of interesting reading materials, and there were active discussions online with the fellow participants
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On 8 September 2011 I attended a symposium on HIV, Sex and Cultural Difference in Tzaneen which was organised by The Anova Health Institute and Khutso Kurhula in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Development in Mopani in Limpopo Province.
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In August-September 2011 I did a 2.5-week online course on Health Impact Assessment from the International Health Impact Assessment Consortium (IMPACT) which is based at the University of Liverpool.
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In October the Census 2011 was conducted in South Africa. It is not solely counting how many people live in the country, but information is also collected on gender, age, education, etc. As a regular user of the data of StatsSA I found it very interesting to now be a participant.
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I often see people being a bit anxious when it comes to sample size calculations: I recently had a client having this problem when setting up a cross-sectional study. I here explain the solutions found to assist the client with this issue. Two different tools that are freely online available were used.
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8 and 9 August 2011 I have been teaching quantitative research proposal writing to Doctor of Public Health students at the School of Public Health of the University of Limpopo, Medunsa campus. The first day the focus was on on the elements of a research proposal (research problem, objectives, methods).
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8 and 9 August 2011 I have been teaching quantitative research proposal writing to Doctor of Public Health students at the School of Public Health of the University of Limpopo, Medunsa campus. The first day the focus was on on the elements of a research proposal (research problem, objectives, methods).
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As part of a Health Impact Assessment I developed a health baseline study for a region in Angola which in the future might be exposed to certain impacts as a result of an off-shore oil field development. I travelled to Luanda from 16-20 May 2011 to meet with the consultancy firm ARC that hired me to do the task.
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In February-March 2011 I did a 6-week online course from the World Bank Institute on the health problems faced by the poor and on pro-poor (health sector) policies.
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