The Series on South Africa in The Lancet is a crucial analysis of how the country's health-care system has performed since the end of apartheid. The Series examines: the health-care system, maternal and child health, HIV infection and tuberculosis, the rising tide of non-communicable disease...
& Braa, J. (2006) Standardization of Health Information Systems in South Africa: The Challenge of Local Sustainability. Information Technology for Development 12, 3, 225-239.Jacucci, E., Shaw, V. and Braa, J. (2006) Standardization of Health Information Systems in South Africa: The ...
In a statement sent to Xinhua, the IFRC's Middle East and North Africa office said most hospitals in the north of Gaza have stopped operating due to a lack of fuel, medicines, and medical equipment, while Al-Amal Hospital, one of the few still operational in the south, is about to sto...
This paper, proposes a framework for monitoring equity in access and health systems issues in ART programmes in Southern Africa. It proposes that an equity monitoring system should comprise seven thematic areas. These thematic areas encompass a national monitoring system which extends beyond one agency...
249. In South Africa, despite increases in public healthcare utilisation due to the high burden of disease and increased patient load over the period 1997–2010, the public health sector fell from second to fourth in the list of spending priorities [2]. Consequently, major health system ...
Developing health systems research capacities through north-south partnership: An evaluation of collaboration with South Africa and Thailand Background Over the past ten years, calls to strengthen health systems research capacities in low and middle income countries have increased. One mechanism... SH ...
City University of New York Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health (CUNY ISPH) United States Country Coordination Mechanism - Tunisia, The Global Fund Tunisia The Desmond Tutu Health Foundation South Africa Deutsche AIDS Hilfe Germany Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft niedergelassener Ärzte...
He said that the World Health Organization (WHO) advised countries to spend 5 percent of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on health care system in a bid to improve health outcomes. South Africa currently spends 8.7 percent of its GDP on health care and yet this has not yielded any positi...
Virtual interactions account for approximately 43 percent of potential efficiency gains in Kenya (up to $1.1 billion), 35 percent in Nigeria (up to $1.2 billion), and 39 percent in South Africa (up to $4.3 billion) in 2030. These derive mainly from three types of patient-facing solutio...
challenge for development of the country’s health system. An Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report on the migration of health professionals showed that, in 2001, South Africa had contributed about 23 400 South African-born “workers practising a medical profession”...