The National Department released the internship and community service placement guidelines for 2017/18. Find your copy here: INTERNSHIP-AND-COMMUNITY-SERVICEPLACEMENT-GUIDELINES-FOR-2017-2018-VERSION (2) ...
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Embracing Emergence: How Collective Impact Addresses Complexity_PDF ...
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By Karessa Govender, Published in The Daily Maverick, 17 November 2017 https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2017-11-17-are-south-african-health-workers-being-silenced-into-malpractice/#.Wg6MYROCxE4 “There is really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” The word ...
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Programme: 22Nov HCW Advocacy Debate Programme Date: 22 November 2017, 1530 for 16:00 – 18:30 Place: University of the Witwatersrand, School of Public Health, Resource Centre RSVP: For catering purposes RSVP by Monday 20 Nov to Karessa@rhap.org.za In a context of an ailing health system faced with many challenges, patients and their families n ...
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Nov 16, 2017
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Today the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) starts its national hearing on the status of mental health care in South Africa. The Rural Mental Health Campaign (RMHC) welcomes this much-needed step to access and improve mental healthcare access in South Africa and will be presenting its research and recommendations to the panel. In 20 ...
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What costs and what benefits.For the health sector, for the economy and For society?MRC Investment Case, June 2017 Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly shown to have the potential to improve the health status of the population, in particular that of the more disadvantaged or those living in hard to reach areas. Their involvement in ...
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This study was conducted by the MRC and RHAP to compare the resource implications (both financial and human resources) of the CHW components of WBOT between rural and urban communities. The study focuses on different community-based service models implemented in two provinces to highlight potential differences between urban and rural sub-distri ...
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On the 15th of August 2017, the Rural Health Advocacy Project in partnership with the Canzibe Hospital Board held a Community Dialogue/Imbizo at the Canzibe Community Hall. Partner organisations that were present were TAC, One2One Enable Mothers, The Jabulani Foundation and RuDASA. The imbizo was attended by over 150 community members from Canz ...
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Submission to the Standing Committee on Appropriations Re: Division of Revenue Adjustment Bill, MTBPS 2017 The Rural Health Advocacy Project wishes to make a submission on the MTBPS and its impact on health. This submission is structured as follows: First, we consider the current status of healthcare delivery in the public sector, secondly, we ...
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Reflections from the rural Eastern Cape By: Sharon Gostino, RHAP intern During my training as a public health practitioner two years back we learnt about the role of various health cadres but little mention was made of the new health cadre of Clinical Associate that was introduced in South Africa in 2008. This was not by chance – in general lit ...
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