Salome Maswime

Dados Biográficos

ID9021280
NOMESalome Maswime
PRENOMESSalome
SOBRENOMEMaswime
ASSINATURAMASWIME S
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Cape Town
ORCID0000-0003-4013-5164
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR8
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2021
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • An international medical education collaborative to enhance academic and clinical capacity in South Africa

    Open AccessVanessa Kerry, Vanessa Bradford Kerry et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2026

    Background: The Government of South Africa has prioritised disease prevention and improved healthcare delivery, but the country remains challenged by disease burdens and inequity of resources across the country, including the availability of clinician-specialists to meet public sector and other needs. Methods: To address the need for more physician specialists in the country, Discovery Health of South Africa collaborated with Mass General Hospita…

  • Obstetrician and gynaecologist engagement in global surgery

    Open AccessParisa Fallah, Lina Roa et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BOX Despite growing interest and engagement in global surgery, obstetrician and gynaecologist (OB/GYN) representation remains low, and efforts have focused largely on obstetric care

  • A qualitative evaluation of a global surgery course within the University of Cape Town’s master of public health curriculum

    Open AccessYvan Zolo, Wakisa Mulwafu et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Access to safe surgery is a critical, yet often neglected, component of Public Health for health systems strengthening. Despite its importance, Global Surgery education remains absent from Public Health curricula, which may lead Public Health specialists unprepared to address the unmet global burden of surgical disease. This study evaluated a novel Fundamentals in Global Surgery course within the University of Cape Town’s Master of Public Health …

  • Universal access to surgical care—A global public health priority

    Open AccessSalome Maswime, Jayaraman et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

  • Who seeks care after intimate partner violence in Cameroon? sociodemographic differences between a hospital and population sample of women

    Open AccessMark Yost, Karen J Blair et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Introduction Little is known regarding health care seeking behaviors of women in sub-Saharan Africa, specifically Cameroon, who experience violence. The proportion of women who experienced violence enrolled in the Cameroon Trauma Registry (CTR) is lower than expected. Methods We concatenated the databases from the October 2017-December 2020 CTR and 2018 Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) into a singular database for cross-sectional stud…

  • Tertiary prevention and treatment of rheumatic heart disease

    Open AccessDominique Vervoort, Christopher Sabo Yilgwan et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Although entirely preventable, rheumatic heart disease (RHD), a disease of poverty and social disadvantage resulting in high morbidity and mortality, remains an ever-present burden in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) and rural, remote, marginalised and disenfranchised populations within high-income countries. In late 2021, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute convened a workshop to explore the current state of science, to i…

  • Historical determinants of neurosurgical inequities in Africa and the African diaspora

    Open AccessErnest J Barthélemy, Sylviane A Diouf et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The movement to decolonize global health challenges clinicians and researchers of sub-disciplines, like global neurosurgery, to redefine their field. As an era of racial reckoning recentres the colonial roots of modern health disparities, reviewing the historical determinants of these disparities can constructively inform decolonization. This article presents a review and analysis of the historical determinants of neurosurgical inequities as unde…

  • Voices beyond the Operating Room

    Open AccessDesmond T Jumbam, Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    This study was designed to examine the effect of calcitonin gene related peptide on gastric acid secretion in the rat. Calcitonin gene related peptide (1 pmol-1 nmol/rat) injected intravenously inhibited basal gastric acid secretion in awake, freely moving rats. Calcitonin gene related peptide decreased gastric secretion stimulated by histamine, pentagastrin, or bethanecol in anaesthetised rats. The inhibitory effect was immediate and most pronou…

  • Identifying knowledge needed to improve surgical care in Southern Africa using a theory of change approach

    Open AccessDanyca Shadé Breedt, Maria Lisa Odland et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    Surgical healthcare has been prioritised in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a regional intergovernmental entity promoting equitable and sustainable economic growth and socioeconomic development. However, challenges remain in translating political prioritisation into effective and equitable surgical healthcare. The AfroSurg Collaborative (AfroSurg) includes clinicians, public health professionals and social scientists from six S…