The NHI bill aims to ensure that all South Africans have access to quality healthcare services.
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South Africa faces high levels of noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. The NHI is likely to battle to cope with treating large numbers of sick people.
There is hard and persistent work that needs to be planned for, like a kind of ongoing rehabilitation process, to realise the dream of one health system for all South Africans.
Ghana’s lack of a palliative care policy is posing a significant challenge to effective healthcare for cancer patients.
Children’s right to health is paramount: here’s what needs to be done to build a child-centred health care system.
The entire premise of effective competition is that purchasing of health services should be based on value - a combination of price and quality.
Less than 1 in 10 people living with a mental health condition in South Africa receive the care that they need.
Top-down reforms like those proposed in the NHI Bill need to be complemented by a bottom-up process of health system strengthening.
South Africa’s planned NHI has no equivalent in any setting in the world. It’s deeply flawed on a number of fronts.
Excluding international migrants from the public health care system can result in a population wide risk.
South Africa’s finance minister delivered a budget that tried to balance serving the public interest, while maintaining the stability of public finances.
South Africa’s Competition Commission has delayed the release of the final report of an inquiry into the private healthcare again.
South Africa’s health care needs to be reformed so that everyone has access regardless of affordability or location.
The bill to provide universal health care in South Africa is not the silver bullet for the challenges in the health sector.
South Africa’s plan for universal health coverage has taken another crucial step with the introduction of a new policy document aimed at delivering more equitable healthcare.
Healthcare that everyone can access is an important step in bridging the inequality in a country. In reality though, its hard to implement properly.
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Senior researcher in health policy and systems and part-time lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Public Health and DST/NRF Research Chair., University of the Witwatersrand
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Director Rural Health Advocacy Project, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor in the Health Economics Unit, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University
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Health Economist in the Alan J. Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, University of Cape Town
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Sasha Frade is a PhD student, as well as an Associate Lecturer, in the Demography and Population Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Communication and Education Specialist at the Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Extraordinary Professor, Stellenbosch University
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Chair of Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies, Adjunct Professor in the School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, Health Policy, University of Cape Town
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Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg
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Senior lecturer in law, University of the Free State