Statistics Reports Insights Research AI New Daily Data Services Health, Pharma & Medtech Healthcare in South Korea - statistics & facts Choose a region: South Korea In 2022, the life expectancy of South Koreans stood at an average of 82.7 years, which is one of the highest among OECD...
One recent preventative measure the South African government took was implementing a sugar tax. By charging more for sugary drinks and foods, the government is fighting obesity and helping citizens make more conscious decisions. South Africa briefly launched a Diabetes Prevention Programme (DPP). The...
South African medical schemes are non-profit trusts that their members own. The contributions made by the members are put together and used to pay pertinent medical costs where necessary while keeping a legislated surplus (at least a 25 percent solvency ratio) to prevent the scheme from collapsing...
The Biovac Institute (Cape Town; see Box 1), a public–private part- nership between the South African Department of Health and the Biovac Consortium (Cape Town), is the only manufacturer of vaccines in sub-Saharan Africa. Biovac's mandate is to sup- ply all of South Africa's Expanded ...
The number of older persons is growing at an alarming rate, yet the South African healthcare sector is not giving this issue the required attention. Moreover, the healthcare sector serves four-fifths of the country's population and primary healthcare (PHC) facilities are overcrowded, and thus...
We describe coverage of maternal syphilis screening, syphilis positivity, coverage of treatment and their association with maternal HIV infection and antiretroviral treatment (ART) status among pregnant women attending South African antenatal clinics. The 2019 antenatal care sentinel survey was a cross-sect...
Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from April to May 2021 at five community health centres in the King Sabata Dalindyebo sub-district, South Africa. A total of 139 nurses completed a self-administered questionnaire. Data were analysed using simple descriptive statistics. ...
In South Africa, the provision of primary health care is a basic service designed to be cost effective and bring healthcare as close as possible to the population, particularly to those people of low economic status. It is a service which is provided free of charge by the South African gove...
This period has seen the financial health of South African households decline under the weight of these economic pressures and, in turn, pulled more households and individuals down into poverty. While poverty headcounts are a relatively easy measure of deprivation to conceptualise and interpret, it ...
The right to health care is enshrined in the South African constitution. Yet for over twenty years since the government of national unity, it was not until December 2015 that the African National Congress (ANC) government issued a white paper on the implementation of a NHI, which is seen as...