In this submission to SANAC, we identify critical gaps in the draft NSP and its treatment of rural contexts and communities. While many of the interventions aimed at targeting key and vulnerable populations will undoubtedly benefit rural communities, it is important to understand rural contexts do differ from urban contexts in key ways. Rural f ...
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In this WHO publication, Prof Wong argues that the real challenge in achieving Universal Health Coverage is the delivery of services to those who are hardest to reach. “Without a focus on reach, resources will be wasted and the number of preventable and treatable illnesses will remain high.” Unpacking the example of Brazil’s ...
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The National Health Assembly, held at the University of the Western Cape from 24 – 26 June brought together organisations and individuals from all provinces in South Africa and beyond. The NHA participants identified the following issues around health and health care provision in South Africa: the need for community participation including heal ...
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The Big Chill: Health post freeze threatens services by Laura Lopez Gonzalez on February 1, 2016 in Health Funding, Health Management, News Facing a R9-billion shortfall just to meet salary demands, provincial health departments are freezing posts. Whether couched openly in memos or hidden between the lines of spiralling bureaucracy, staff fre ...
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In this opinion piece published in the Mail and Guardian on 25 July 2014 Daygan Eagar argues that the state’s proposed certificate of need will not address inequities in rural healthcare. During a recent consultation with the national department of health on the much-maligned promulgation of the section of the National Health Act that requires ...
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Rural-Proofing Health Care for People with Disabilities ...
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Putting PHC into Practice-NSPreview9-LeanneBrady. Successfully managing the challenges posed by diseases such as TB and HIV requires a strong and well-integrated health system, writes RuDASA members Dr Leanne Brady was published in NSP review #9, 2013. ...
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RuDASA and RHAP ares convinced that the Primary Health Care approach should be the foundational principle on which our national healthcare service is built. We are, however, concerned that the documents pertaining the re-engineering of PHC, have not recognised the important role that a well functioning district hospital (DH) could (and in fact ...
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