Nellie Myburgh

Biographic Data

ID208960
NAMENellie Myburgh
GIVEN NAMESNellie
FAMILY NAMEMyburgh
SIGNATUREMYBURGH N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Witwatersrand
ORCID0000-0002-6427-2772
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Challenges and opportunities in achieving sustainable development goal 3 in KwaZulu-Natal

    Open AccessRujeko Samanthia Chimukuche, Thembelihle Zuma et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    South Africa is committed to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3), which aims to ensure health and well-being for all. However, in rural provinces like KwaZulu-Natal, structural inequalities, socio-cultural challenges, and environmental stressors hinder progress. This study synthesises findings from qualitative research conducted at the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) to explore the challenges and opportunities in meeting SDG …

  • Comparison of causes of stillbirth and child deaths as determined by verbal autopsy and minimally invasive tissue sampling

    Open AccessNega Assefa, Anthony Scott et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    In resource-limited settings where vital registration and medical death certificates are unavailable or incomplete, verbal autopsy (VA) is often used to attribute causes of death (CoD) and prioritize resource allocation and interventions. We aimed to determine the CoD concordance between InterVA and CHAMPS’s method. The causes of death (CoDs) of children

  • Approaches, achievements, challenges, and lessons learned in setting up an urban-based Health and Demographic Surveillance System in South Africa

    Open AccessSunday A Adedini, Santiago Mollfulleda et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    Reliable civil registration and vital statistics (CRVSs) are essential for estimating mortality rates and population changes, and are critical for public health and socio-economic planning. CRVSs are largely incomplete in Africa, thus Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSSs) fill gaps in CRVSs, albeit existing HDSSs in South Africa are in rural areas. This limits the generalisability of such data in a country such as South Africa where…

  • Diarrhoeal diseases in Soweto, South Africa, 2020

    Open AccessSiobhan Johnstone, Siobhan L Johnstone et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Diarrhoeal rate was high across all age groups in this community; however, older children and adults were less likely to present to healthcare, and are therefore underrepresented through facility-based clinical surveillance. Current diarrhoeal surveillance represents a fraction of the overall cases occurring in the community

  • A Framework for Equity Access to Primary Dental Care

    Open AccessDenise Silveira Antunes, Sudeshni Naidoo et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2020

    The objective of this study was to demonstrate face validity with a novel resource allocation framework designed to maximize equity into dental booking systems. The study was carried out in 2014. Eleven experts in primary dental care practice in Southern Brazil participated, using a three-round consensus group technique. First, the experts reached consensus on the items to be included in a 5-level diagnostic scale. They identified 21 clinical con…

  • Community acceptability of minimally invasive autopsy (MIA) in children under five years of age in Soweto, South Africa

    Nonhlanhla Ngwenya, David B Coplan et al.ARTICLEAnthropology Southern Africa2017References: 4

    This interdisciplinary study, using qualitative and ethnographic research methods, collected data from 330 men and women in Soweto, South Africa, in order to understand the community acceptability of minimally invasive autopsy (MIA) in children who died under five years of age. The study found that the acceptability of MIAs depended on people’s socio-cultural belief systems regarding death and afterlife; on power and gender dynamics within househ…