Add to ORKGA major challenge facing health care services worldwide is the need to deliver services appropriate to local community needs. In South Africa, the Department of Health has adopted the District Health System1 as the vehicle to deliver comprehensive health care to an estimated 84%2 of South Africans who do not have private health insurance. Within each health care district, community-based and hospital-based services are to be provided. District hospitals are to play a pivotal role in supporting ambulatory primary care services as well as providing a gateway to specialist health care at regional hospitals and highly specialised care (sub-specialist level) at tertiary hospitals. Documents outlining district and regional hospital service packag...
Similar to other countries in the region, South Africa is currently reorienting a loosely structured...
Despite expenditure levels on healthcare comparable to those of its upper-middle-income country pee...
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-299)This thesis examines the "supply" and "demand" for h...
INTRODUCTION: Public health care delivery in South Africa aims to provide equitable access at the mo...
The South African public health sector follows a hierarchical referral system. District hospitals pl...
CITATION: Schneider, H., et al. 2015. The challenges of reshaping disease specific and care oriented...
The South African Department of Health, like the health departments of many other countries, has rev...
Abstract Background: In South Africa, the provision of primary health care is a basic service desig...
The authors recognize that social, economic and political factors play a larger role in determining ...
BACKGROUND: Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has emerged as a major goal for health care delivery in ...
M.Com. (Business Management)It is a well established fact that the majority of South Africans do not...
Background. Inequity in resource allocation and expenditure exists in the South African (SA) health ...
Introduction: The public health system in South Africa is a tiered system. Throughout the Western Ca...
In South Africa, differences in healthcare demand may perpetuate inequities in disease incidence, mo...
Rationale: In a highly unequal setting such as South Africa, differences in healthcare demand underp...
Similar to other countries in the region, South Africa is currently reorienting a loosely structured...
Despite expenditure levels on healthcare comparable to those of its upper-middle-income country pee...
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-299)This thesis examines the "supply" and "demand" for h...
INTRODUCTION: Public health care delivery in South Africa aims to provide equitable access at the mo...
The South African public health sector follows a hierarchical referral system. District hospitals pl...
CITATION: Schneider, H., et al. 2015. The challenges of reshaping disease specific and care oriented...
The South African Department of Health, like the health departments of many other countries, has rev...
Abstract Background: In South Africa, the provision of primary health care is a basic service desig...
The authors recognize that social, economic and political factors play a larger role in determining ...
BACKGROUND: Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has emerged as a major goal for health care delivery in ...
M.Com. (Business Management)It is a well established fact that the majority of South Africans do not...
Background. Inequity in resource allocation and expenditure exists in the South African (SA) health ...
Introduction: The public health system in South Africa is a tiered system. Throughout the Western Ca...
In South Africa, differences in healthcare demand may perpetuate inequities in disease incidence, mo...
Rationale: In a highly unequal setting such as South Africa, differences in healthcare demand underp...
Similar to other countries in the region, South Africa is currently reorienting a loosely structured...
Despite expenditure levels on healthcare comparable to those of its upper-middle-income country pee...
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-299)This thesis examines the "supply" and "demand" for h...