Mariaan Wicks is a registered dietitian and serves as the subject head and senior lecturer in Dietetics at North-West University, South Africa. She has a special interest in nutrition-focused interventions to combat and prevent obesity and non-communicable diseases, with a specific focus on nutrient profiling and food labelling. She earned her PhD…
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Mariaan Wicks
Mariaan Wicks is a registered dietitian and serves as the subject head and senior lecturer in Dietetics at North-West University, South Africa. She has a special interest in nutrition-focused interventions to combat and prevent obesity and non-communicable diseases, with a specific focus on nutrient profiling and food labelling. She earned her PhD…https://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/consumer-sciences/staff
Staff
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Postgraduate Studies
Postgraduate Studies in Consumer Sciences After completing one of the four year programs a student can be admitted to an M in Consumer Sciences. Admission is subject to a selection process as well as available capacity in the subject group. After that, a student can be enrolled for a PhD degree in Consumer Sciences, provided that the stated…https://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/occupational-hygiene/study-occupational-hygiene
Study Occupational Hygiene
[accordion collapsed] What is Occupational Hygiene? Occupational Hygiene is the discipline of anticipating, recognising, evaluating and controlling health hazards in the working environment with the objective of protecting worker health and well-being and safeguarding the community at large. Take a look at a video of the…https://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/occupational-hygiene/and-innovation
Research and Innovation
Globally 2.9 million annual deaths (nearly 8 000 deaths/day) in 2019 were attributed to work with 2.58 million due to occupational diseases and 0.32 million related to occupational accidents. The burden of occupational diseases and injuries increased by 26% from 2014. The economic loss due to occupational diseases is estimated at 5.8…https://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/occupational-hygiene