South Africa and Health systems
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- Uptake and use of ICTs as e-health solutions in South Africa
- N.L. Ruxwana; M.E. Herselman; D.P. Conradie / Health Information Management Journal, 2010
- This paper describes a study which focused on factors perceived to influence the uptake and use of Information and Communication Technology solutions (ICTs) as e-health solutions in selected rural Eastern Cape healthcare centres (Sout...
- Incorporating flexibilities of TRIPS to ensure better access to HIV treatment
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2011
- This policy brief describes how the flexibilities contained in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and reaffirmed by the Doha Declaration provide important opportunities for World Trade Organiza...
- Coordinated regional response to migration and health needed in Southern Africa
- J. Vearey; L. Nunez / The Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, 2010
- Southern Africa represents a region of diverse migration patterns including the movement of people within countries, across borders and between different continents. This paper focuses on South Africa, and explores the linkages betwee...
- Why medical schemes are not providing adequate protection in South Africa
- D. McIntyre / EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2010
- This paper explores private sector involvement in funding and providing health services in South Africa and the implications for equity and access to health care. The paper notes that 44% of total health care expenditure is attributab...
- The potential of mobile phones in improving global health
- The Economist, 2009
- This special report on health care and technology, published by The Economist, describes how developing countries are using mobile phones to provides personalised medicine. Drawing from experiences of various countries, the authors de...
- Innovations in developing country health care delivery through social franchises
- University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
- Social franchising represents one of the best known ways to rapidly scale up clinical health interventions in developing countries. Building upon existing expertise in poor and isolated communities, social franchising organisations en...
- Are financial incentives effective in attracting and retaining health workers to underserved areas?
- T Barnighausen; D. E. Bloom 2009
- The shortage of human resources for health can severely impact on the provision of health services; therefore incentive programmes have been used to attract health professionals to work in locations most affected by the lack of staff....
- Supporting volunteer health workers in South Africa
- C. Campbell (ed); A. Gibbs (ed); S. Maimane (ed) / Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance, 2008
- With the scarcity of African health professionals, volunteers are earmarked for an increased role in HIV/AIDS management, with a growing number of projects relying on grassroots community members to provide home nursing care to those ...
- Measuring a HIV and HSV2 prevention programme in South Africa
- R. Jewkes; M. Nduna; J. Levin / British Medical Journal, 2008
- Stepping Stones, a 50 hour programme, aims to improve sexual health by using participatory learning approaches to build knowledge, risk awareness, and communication skills and to stimulate critical reflection. This article in the Brit...
- Are psychological models an effective way to identify the motivational determinants of smoking?
- S. Panday; S. P. Reddy; R. A. C. Ruiter / Health Education Research, 2005
- This article, in Health Education Research, describes a study to identify the determinants of smoking cessation among smokers in the Southern Cape-Karoo region of South Africa. The study was conducted among African, coloured and white...
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