Maylene Shung-King
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6333923 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maylene Shung-King |
| NOMBRES | Maylene |
| APELLIDO | Shung-King |
| FIRMA | SHUNG-KING M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2281-8631 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Career trajectories of master of public health graduates from South African universities
Perceptions of South Africa’s master of public health graduates on the degree’s contribution to their leadership at work and in society
Introduction: Integrating public health functions into national health systems is essential to enhance population health. The Master of Public Health (MPH) degree is an important foundation for public health practice in low-and middle-income countries such as South Africa. However, insufficient evidence on individual motivations for undertaking the MPH and the perceptions of graduates on the utility of the degree at work and in society and its co…
Research priorities for the primordial prevention of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease by modifying the social determinants of health
The social determinants of health (SDH), such as access to income, education, housing and healthcare, strongly shape the occurrence of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) at the household, community and national levels. The SDH are systemic factors that privilege some more than others and result in poverty and inequitable access to resources to support health and well-being. Primordial prevention is the modification of S…
Health systems of oppression
Analysis of Cameroon’s Sectoral Policies on Physical Activity for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention
Physical inactivity is increasing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), urbanisation and sedentary living are rapidly growing in tandem. Increasing active living requires the participation of multiple sectors, yet it is unclear whether physical activity (PA)-relevant sectors in LMICs are prioritising PA. We investigated to what extent sectors that influence PA explicitly integrate it in their policies…
Intersectoral Action for Addressing NCDs through the Food Environment
Noncommunicable diseases contribute the greatest to global mortality. Unhealthy diet-a prominent risk factor-is intricately linked to urban built and food environments and requires intersectoral efforts to address. Framings of the noncommunicable disease problem and proposed solutions within global and African regional diet-related policy documents can reveal how amenable the policy landscape is for supporting intersectoral action for health in l…
Bottom-up innovation for health management capacity development
District managers are well placed to design local capacity development innovations and must draw on systems thinking, tacit and experiential knowledge to enable relevant 'bottom-up' capacity development in district health systems. By drawing on soft skills and the policy resources (hardware) of the system they can influence motivation and buy-in to improve management practices. From a systems perspective, we argue that capacity development can be…
The global diet and activity research (GDAR) network
Implications of Covid-19 control measures for diet and physical activity, and lessons for addressing other pandemics facing rapidly urbanising countries
At the time of writing, it is unclear how the COVID-19 pandemic will play out in rapidly urbanising regions of the world. In these regions, the realities of large overcrowded informal settlements, a high burden of infectious and non-communicable diseases, as well as malnutrition and precarity of livelihoods, have raised added concerns about the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in these contexts. COVID-19 infection control measures have b…
Health systems of oppression
Intersectionality is a useful lens to understand how inequities in health develop and are experienced. Intersectionality is both a theory and methodological approach that demonstrates how overlaying social stratifiers (e.g. gender, ableness, sexual orientation and identity) can result in mutually enforced vulnerabilities that render some groups at an advantage and others at a disadvantage (Bowleg, 2008; Nixon, 2019). For example, as described in …
Leadership experiences and practices of South African health managers
This study has implications for institutionalising personal and organisational development that recognise and appropriately advances women managers, paying attention to the intersections of gender, race and professional hierarchy. It is important in the context of national and global goals, in particular SDG 5, that women and in particular black women, are prioritised for training and capacity development and ensuring that transformative health s…
Achievements and challenges in developing health leadership in South Africa
The Oliver Tambo Fellowship Programme is convened by the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa. It is a health leadership training programme with a post-graduate Diploma at its core, supplemented by management seminars, mentorship and alumni networking. An external evaluation was conducted in 2015 for the period since 2008. This rapid, descriptive study made use of mixed methods-including a document re…
The drive for universal healthcare in South Africa
To address problems of inadequate public health services, escalating private healthcare costs and widening health inequalities, the South Africa (SA) Government has launched a bold new proposal to introduce a universal, comprehensive and integrated system for all SAs; National Health Insurance. Though attention has been devoted to the economics of universal coverage less attention has been paid to other potential challenges, in particular the imp…
Health systems of oppression
Intersectionality is a useful lens to understand how inequities in health develop and are experienced. Intersectionality is both a theory and methodological approach that demonstrates how overlaying social stratifiers (e.g. gender, ableness, sexual orientation and identity) can result in mutually enforced vulnerabilities that render some groups at an advantage and others at a disadvantage (Bowleg, 2008; Nixon, 2019). For example, as described in …
Achievements and challenges in developing health leadership in South Africa
The Oliver Tambo Fellowship Programme is convened by the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa. It is a health leadership training programme with a post-graduate Diploma at its core, supplemented by management seminars, mentorship and alumni networking. An external evaluation was conducted in 2015 for the period since 2008. This rapid, descriptive study made use of mixed methods-including a document re…
The drive for universal healthcare in South Africa
To address problems of inadequate public health services, escalating private healthcare costs and widening health inequalities, the South Africa (SA) Government has launched a bold new proposal to introduce a universal, comprehensive and integrated system for all SAs; National Health Insurance. Though attention has been devoted to the economics of universal coverage less attention has been paid to other potential challenges, in particular the imp…
Leadership experiences and practices of South African health managers
This study has implications for institutionalising personal and organisational development that recognise and appropriately advances women managers, paying attention to the intersections of gender, race and professional hierarchy. It is important in the context of national and global goals, in particular SDG 5, that women and in particular black women, are prioritised for training and capacity development and ensuring that transformative health s…
Achievements and challenges in developing health leadership in South Africa
The Oliver Tambo Fellowship Programme is convened by the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa. It is a health leadership training programme with a post-graduate Diploma at its core, supplemented by management seminars, mentorship and alumni networking. An external evaluation was conducted in 2015 for the period since 2008. This rapid, descriptive study made use of mixed methods-including a document re…
The global diet and activity research (GDAR) network
Implications of Covid-19 control measures for diet and physical activity, and lessons for addressing other pandemics facing rapidly urbanising countries
At the time of writing, it is unclear how the COVID-19 pandemic will play out in rapidly urbanising regions of the world. In these regions, the realities of large overcrowded informal settlements, a high burden of infectious and non-communicable diseases, as well as malnutrition and precarity of livelihoods, have raised added concerns about the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in these contexts. COVID-19 infection control measures have b…
Health systems of oppression
Intersectionality is a useful lens to understand how inequities in health develop and are experienced. Intersectionality is both a theory and methodological approach that demonstrates how overlaying social stratifiers (e.g. gender, ableness, sexual orientation and identity) can result in mutually enforced vulnerabilities that render some groups at an advantage and others at a disadvantage (Bowleg, 2008; Nixon, 2019). For example, as described in …
Health systems of oppression
Analysis of Cameroon’s Sectoral Policies on Physical Activity for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention
Physical inactivity is increasing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), urbanisation and sedentary living are rapidly growing in tandem. Increasing active living requires the participation of multiple sectors, yet it is unclear whether physical activity (PA)-relevant sectors in LMICs are prioritising PA. We investigated to what extent sectors that influence PA explicitly integrate it in their policies…
Intersectoral Action for Addressing NCDs through the Food Environment
Noncommunicable diseases contribute the greatest to global mortality. Unhealthy diet-a prominent risk factor-is intricately linked to urban built and food environments and requires intersectoral efforts to address. Framings of the noncommunicable disease problem and proposed solutions within global and African regional diet-related policy documents can reveal how amenable the policy landscape is for supporting intersectoral action for health in l…
Bottom-up innovation for health management capacity development
District managers are well placed to design local capacity development innovations and must draw on systems thinking, tacit and experiential knowledge to enable relevant 'bottom-up' capacity development in district health systems. By drawing on soft skills and the policy resources (hardware) of the system they can influence motivation and buy-in to improve management practices. From a systems perspective, we argue that capacity development can be…
Research priorities for the primordial prevention of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease by modifying the social determinants of health
The social determinants of health (SDH), such as access to income, education, housing and healthcare, strongly shape the occurrence of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) at the household, community and national levels. The SDH are systemic factors that privilege some more than others and result in poverty and inequitable access to resources to support health and well-being. Primordial prevention is the modification of S…
Perceptions of South Africa’s master of public health graduates on the degree’s contribution to their leadership at work and in society
Introduction: Integrating public health functions into national health systems is essential to enhance population health. The Master of Public Health (MPH) degree is an important foundation for public health practice in low-and middle-income countries such as South Africa. However, insufficient evidence on individual motivations for undertaking the MPH and the perceptions of graduates on the utility of the degree at work and in society and its co…
Career trajectories of master of public health graduates from South African universities
Medicine (10 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Public health (7 obras) · Economic growth (6 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Public relations (5 obras) · Environmental health (4 obras) · Nursing (4 obras)