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    Environmental health in South Africa

    South African Health Review / Health Systems Trust, 2013
    The World Health Organization has estimated that as much as one quarter of the global burden of disease is due to modifiable environmental factors.
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    National health insurance and South Africa’s private sector

    South African Health Review / Health Systems Trust, 2013
    South Africa has a dual healthcare system, with a public health-care sector funded through the national fiscus that operates in parallel with privately-funded healthcare provision.
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    Challenges and constraints at district management level

    South African Health Review / Health Systems Trust, 2013
    The District Health System (DHS) is the organisational entity around and through which the provision of healthcare delivery should be organised as mandated by the National Health Act (61 of 2003).
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    Progress in the establishment of ward-based outreach teams: Experiences in the North West province

    South African Health Review / Health Systems Trust, 2013
    Following the Alma Ata Conference in 1978, a number of countries formulated policies to entrench the principles of “health care for all” and align their plans with that of the primary health care (PHC) framework, albeit with considerable diversity in country experiences and approaches.
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    School health in South Africa: Reflections on the past and prospects for the future

    South African Health Review / Health Systems Trust, 2013
    School health has received unprecedented attention in South Africa over the past five years and has consequently evolved from relative obscurity into a priority programme on the agendas of both the Department of Health (DoH) and of Basic Education (DBE). In the Department of Health, school health is one of three priority streams in the re-engineering of Primary Health Care (PHC).
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    District clinical specialist teams

    South African Health Review / Health Systems Trust, 2013
    In its commitment to the Millennium Development Goals, South Africa has embarked on significant health reforms to reach the targets set. Integral to achieving the targets has been the adoption of a three-stream approach to primary health care (PHC) re-engineering, which includes municipal ward-based outreach teams, integrated school health teams, and district clinical specialist teams.
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    Innovations in primary health care: Considerations for national health insurance

    South African Health Review / Health Systems Trust, 2013
    South Africa is undertaking major reforms in its health sector to prepare for the introduction of financing reforms under National Health Insurance (NHI). Central to this effort is improving the quality of primary healthcare services.
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    Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)

    The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) is a public private initiative that has collaboratively evolved through consultations with multiple constituencies including Indian and international ac
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    Global health conference on social marketing and franchising report 2014

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    Social Marketing (SM) and Social Franchising (SF) can be considered as two strong strategies to complement the healthcare system in delivering the quality product and services at affordable prices to the remote and un-served communities. The main objectives of the Global Health Conference 2014 were to:
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    Delaying Artemisinin resistance in India

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    Artemisinin resistance has been called the greatest threat to malaria control, and could lead to loss of the hard-won gains of the last decade. That success has been dramatic: since 2000, malaria deaths have been halved, due in no small part to the widespread use of artemisinins in artemisinin-combination therapies (ACTs).

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