Die verbondeling in verband

Daar is dikwels en deur groot outoriteite al geskryf oor die mens in die samelewing. Hier wil ons egter die saak probeer aanraak uit ’n nuwe hoek, veral om die Skrifbeligting van die siening te benader. Vanselfsprekend verg hierdie benaming ’n skrifmatige mensbeskouing, maar ook ’n skrifmatige verbandsbeskouing. Die mens staan egter nie slegs in verhouding tot sy medemens nie maar ook in verhou­ ding tot stof, plant en dier. Boweal staan die mens in verhouding tot God, en hierdie verhouding is deurslaggewend vir al die ander verhoudinge waarin die mens hom bevind. Tog staan die mens ook in verhouding tot homself; wie kan die diepere roersele van die menslike siel peil, wie weet van die wroeginge, vreugde, leed en genot van die mens beter as hyself? Ook hierdie aspek verdien ons aandag. Op volledigheid kan nie aanspraak gemaak word nie, dit is ook nie my bedoeling nie. Die bedoeling is maar om die omvang van die tema aan te dui, die gedagtes te prikkel en veral om aan te spoor tot nuwe denkoriëntering waarin ook terminologies gebreek behoort te word met die neo-skolastiek binne reformatoriese lyn

Tracking the risk factors and impact of an intervention to reduce the spread of the HIV

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 177-184)

Die betekenis van ’n radikaal skrif- matige filosofie vir die leyvens- praktyk

[he author’s point of departure is founded on the reciprocation between practical life and Philosophy. He points out the centuries-old distinction and division between theory and practice and rejects it, seeing that it is man who “does thinkingly” and who “thinks while doing”. One’s view of the world, one cosmoscope (which is a nun-scientific vision on reality) constitutes a bridge between religion and Philosophy and can be strengthened after a scientific justification via Ontology from the field of theoretical knowledge. The relationship between Philosophy and practical life has to be determined from the angle of the religious unity of both. Prom this it emerges that practical and scientific knowledge do not differ in terms of worth of content, but only in terms of their own irreplaceable nature. Their basic relationship should then be typified in terms of reciprocal service

'n Prinsipiële begronding van die Apartheidsbeleid

As ons saam ’n paar gedagtes wil wissel oor die prin- sipiële begronding van die apartheidsbeleid, dan is dit seker nodig dat ons in die eerste plek moet kom tot ’n duidelike om skrywing van begrippe. Ons moet m ekaar van die begin af reg verstaan anders sal die bespreking uitloop in ’n Babelse verwarring, aangesien uit verskillende lewens- en wêreldbe- skouing verskillende antw oorde op dieselfde probleem moontlik is. Ons stel dit derhalwe baie duidelik dat ons uitgangspunt die Calvinistiese lewens- en w êreldbeskouing is en dat van hieruit, derhalwe in die lig van die Calvinistiese Skrifinterpretasie, gesoek sal word na die beginsels wat aan die apartheidsbeleid ten grondslag lê. Die moontlike verskilpunte wat mag ontstaan, moet dan na die w ortel toe deurgevors w ord om vas te stel of die standpunte op dieselfde fondam ent wortel. En dan kan gestel word dat die Calvinistiese siening nog maar in sy kin- derskoene staan, dat die Calvinisme vandag ook nog deur- drenk is van nie-Calvinistiese gedagtes en dat die suiwerings- proses ’n taak vir geslagte is. Wat ek gaan aanbied m oet nie as Evangelie beskou word nie, m aar moet gesien word as ’n ernstige poging om uit ons lewens- en w êreldbeskouing te kom tot ’n prinsipiële begronding van die apartheidsbeleid

Lewe, dood en onsterflikheid in die Wysbegeerte

Aangesien Wysbegeerte hom met die werklikheid besig hou, die werklikheid soos dit gegee is, en aangesien alle wysgere deur alle eeue met dieselfde werklikheid te doen het, daarom, omdat lewe, dood en onsterflikheid(?) deel van hierdie werklikheid is,het ook die wysgere deur die eeue heenbespiegelinge oor hierdie aspek van diewerklikheid gehad

Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in patient care

Background Health care‐associated infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Hand hygiene is regarded as an effective preventive measure. This is an update of a previously published review. Objectives To assess the short‐ and long‐term success of strategies to improve compliance to recommendations for hand hygiene, and to determine whether an increase in hand hygiene compliance can reduce rates of health care‐associated infection. Search methods We conducted electronic searches of the Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials, PubMed, Embase, and CINAHL. We conducted the searches from November 2009 to October 2016. Selection criteria We included randomised trials, non‐randomised trials, controlled before‐after studies, and interrupted time series analyses (ITS) that evaluated any intervention to improve compliance with hand hygiene using soap and water or alcohol‐based hand rub (ABHR), or both. Data collection and analysis Two review authors independently screened citations for inclusion, extracted data, and assessed risks of bias for each included study. Meta‐analysis was not possible, as there was substantial heterogeneity across studies. We assessed the certainty of evidence using the GRADE approach and present the results narratively in a 'Summary of findings' table. Main results This review includes 26 studies: 14 randomised trials, two non‐randomised trials and 10 ITS studies. Most studies were conducted in hospitals or long‐term care facilities in different countries, and collected data from a variety of healthcare workers. Fourteen studies assessed the success of different combinations of strategies recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) to improve hand hygiene compliance. Strategies consisted of the following: increasing the availability of ABHR, different types of education for staff, reminders (written and verbal), different types of performance feedback, administrative support, and staff involvement. Six studies assessed different types of performance feedback, two studies evaluated education, three studies evaluated cues such as signs or scent, and one study assessed placement of ABHR. Observed hand hygiene compliance was measured in all but three studies which reported product usage. Eight studies also reported either infection or colonisation rates. All studies had two or more sources of high or unclear risks of bias, most often associated with blinding or independence of the intervention. Multimodal interventions that include some but not all strategies recommended in the WHO guidelines may slightly improve hand hygiene compliance (five studies; 56 centres) and may slightly reduce infection rates (three studies; 34 centres), low certainty of evidence for both outcomes. Multimodal interventions that include all strategies recommended in the WHO guidelines may slightly reduce colonisation rates (one study; 167 centres; low certainty of evidence). It is unclear whether the intervention improves hand hygiene compliance (five studies; 184 centres) or reduces infection (two studies; 16 centres) because the certainty of this evidence is very low. Multimodal interventions that contain all strategies recommended in the WHO guidelines plus additional strategies may slightly improve hand hygiene compliance (six studies; 15 centres; low certainty of evidence). It is unclear whether this intervention reduces infection rates (one study; one centre; very low certainty of evidence). Performance feedback may improve hand hygiene compliance (six studies; 21 centres; low certainty of evidence). This intervention probably slightly reduces infection (one study; one centre) and colonisation rates (one study; one centre) based on moderate certainty of evidence. Education may improve hand hygiene compliance (two studies; two centres), low certainty of evidence. Cues such as signs or scent may slightly improve hand hygiene compliance (three studies; three centres), low certainty of evidence. Placement of ABHR close to point of use probably slightly improves hand hygiene compliance (one study; one centre), moderate certainty of evidence. Authors' conclusions With the identified variability in certainty of evidence, interventions, and methods, there remains an urgent need to undertake methodologically robust research to explore the effectiveness of multimodal versus simpler interventions to increase hand hygiene compliance, and to identify which components of multimodal interventions or combinations of strategies are most effective in a particular context

Die bestudering van die geskiedenis van die wysbeggeerte ,,in U lig"

Vir ons, Christus-gelowiges, is die Bybel die Woord van God. God is waar en Sy Woord is die Waarheid

Aurelius Augustinus.

Oor hierdie grootste van die Kerkvaders is daar deur die eeue heenal baie geskrywe. Hierdie aandag wat aan hom bestee is, verdien Augustinus dan ook. Veel meer sal seker ook nog oor hom geskrywe word. Ook in ons Calvinistiese kringe verdien die figuur van Augustinus oesondere aandag, want die Gereformeerde teologie is hoofsaaklik op sy voetspore verder uitgebou

Eukleides Mathematikos.

In die Februarle- en April-uitgawes van Koers, 1957, het tweeartikels verskyn waarin die aandag, al is dit miskien terloops, gevestigis op ’n persoon wat aan ons almal deur die Meetkunde wat ons opskool geleer het, bekend is nl. Eukleides. In sy artikel „Selfevidensie in die Natuurwetenskap” sê dr. H. J. Schutte op p. 169; ,,Dit is bekend dat die wiskunde en in die besonder die meetkunde (euklidies) asmodel gedien het van ’n deduktiewe wetenskap by die opstel van sy wetenskapsleer”. Die persoon van wie dr. Schutte hier praat, isAristoteles. Met die lees hiervan het ek gewonder of dit moontlik wasdat Eukleides invloed op Aristoteles kon uitoefen

Die mens, die liefde en die sedelik

Met die skepping van die mens het God hierdie mens met wonderlike gawes toegerus, gawes wat die mens in Sy diens moet stel ten einde sy heerlike roeping op aarde tot eer en verheerliking van sy Skepper te kan volvoer, om sodoende aan sy bestemming te beantwoord