Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kentucky, 2004. / Title from document title page (viewed Jan. 7, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 406p. : ill. Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-403).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2004. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-95).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1975.

Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1944.

Thesis (M.Med.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-83). Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1985. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 164-175).

Thesis (M.A. (Anthropology)) - Rhodes University, 2007.

Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2008. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-171). Also available on the World Wide Web.

The research study was aimed at exploring the narratives of motivations and challenges that home-based health care workers experience in their voluntary service provision. It was conducted in East London in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality. A total of seven participants who volunteer in home based care programmes were interviewed and their mean age was 30 years; all were females, two married, one a widow, one divorced and two single females. The narrative framework was used to explore the volunteers' interpretation of volunteering experiences, highlighting themes that emerged on what encourages them to volunteer as home based health care workers, and how they deal with challenges that arise during the provision of services. The research was also aimed at exploring the social factors supporting the volunteers' decision to continue volunteering. Narratives from the interviewed community health workers [CHWs] indicate that the motives for participating in CHW programmes are mainly altruistic although people are sometimes motivated by self-interest. Self-interest seems to be particularly relevant in the case of the younger volunteers as they expressed their hope that providing voluntary service may help to enhance their skills so as to facilitate future learning and employment prospects. The recurring themes within the CHWs' narrative indicate that they identify with the helping role and feel it empowers them as they participate in meaningful ways in their communities, and they gain strength to cope with challenges that come with community health work. This study highlighted the complex nature of home based care roles, which inevitably reflect the intervention approach, the mode of working, professional roles and relationships with communities.

M.Cur. / A single comprehensive, equitable and integrated National Health System must be created for South Afiica (ANC, 1994:19). This will be achieved by the ANC's commitment too promotion ofhealth through prevention and education. The Primary Health Care approach is the tenet for the restructuring ofthe health system. To be able to create a Health System which is single, comprehensive, equitable and integrated the system should be accessible, effective, acceptable, affordable and just. Community health nursing should be restructured to comply with these conditions. In this study the functions ofthe district nurse as a component ofthe Community Health Nursing Service within the National Health System is described. The aim ofthis study is to render more prominence to the promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitive aspects ofcommunity health nursing in the home environment. Criteria for the delivery ofa district nursing service as component ofa community health nursing service will also be set and the position ofcurrent district nursing services investigated. An explorative, descriptive study was performed. The functions that the district nurse is supposed to perform will be obtained, by analysing duty sheets, a questionnaire and a literature review, to set guide lines for the delivery ofa district nursing service. Most ofthe district nurse's functions were found to be corresponding, in the duty sheets and questionnaires. But there were also some differences. The final findings are described