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Health Spending at a Time of Low Economic Growth and Fiscal Constraint

Access the chapter by National Treasury officials in the South African Health Review, 2017 here: 3_Health spending at a time of low economic growth and fiscal constraint ...

642 views 2 likes Jan 8, 2018

South Africa Today and Beyond: Rural Health and Healthcare Worker Advocacy

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800 views 4 likes Dec 15, 2017

Priority-Setting, Social Justice and Human Rights in the Eastern Cape

By Marije Versteeg-Mojanaga, Rural Health Advocacy Project, published in issue 4 of Spotlight. The stories of health care users experiences with the health system as published by Spotlight are devastating. Various factors play a role when patients’ rights are violated, such as poor planning, inadequate HR management, budget cuts, healthcare wor ...

762 views 4 likes Dec 15, 2017

DoH internship and community service placement guidelines for 2017/18

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) ...

1183 views 5 likes Dec 12, 2017

Embracing Emergence: How Collective Impact Addresses Complexity

Embracing Emergence: How Collective Impact Addresses Complexity_PDF ...

557 views 2 likes Dec 12, 2017

Are South African health workers being silenced into malpractice?

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 ...

879 views 5 likes Nov 17, 2017

22 November, Public Debate: Raising Alarm and Being Heard

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 ...

962 views 4 likes Nov 16, 2017

Press Release: Rural Mental Health Campaign calls on action by SAHRC Investigation and sustained action needed

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 ...

1119 views 4 likes Nov 14, 2017

Saving lives, saving costs. Investment Case for Community Health Workers In South Africa

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 ...

1898 views 0 likes Nov 9, 2017

Resource Requirements for Community-Based Care in Rural, Deep-rural and Peri-urban Sub-districts. A comparative analysis in 2 districts in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal

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 ...

987 views 5 likes Nov 9, 2017