New research suggests doctors are carrying the emotional burden of health system failures, adding to workforce pressures in New Zealand and beyond.
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Clinics without pharmacist assistants were more likely to have erratic medicine supply management practices.
As diabetes progresses, insulin injections become the only treatment option. But the transition from oral medication to injectable insulin is often a bumpy one.
The rate of very high psychological distress is rising most steeply in the middle aged, especially in middle-aged women on low incomes. New funding should match this need.
Patients shouldn’t be treated better simply because they can afford to pay more.
With great expectations come great challenges, and one of the biggest facing the new Health NZ agency will be rebuilding a collaborative ethos in the sector.
Involving senior health science students in the everyday practice helped address the workload in facilities, improved quality of patient care, and increased patient and staff satisfaction.
The UN’s global health policy related to universal health coverage should be grounded in primary health care – with meaningful benchmarks to ensure patient participation.
Midlevel health workers can provide diagnostic and therapeutic services with lower entry qualification requirements and shorter training periods than doctors.
Sanders was not afraid to challenge and speak out about sensitive and difficult issues, to people in senior positions of power - and when he did, they sat up and listened.
South Africa has the potential to improve primary health care.
Community-based HIV programmes helps improve access to health care.
Alexander Fleming’s work has helped countless people over the last nine decades.
A new study has found that employing lay health workers at clinics can improve the way patients receive treatment.
The bill to provide universal health care in South Africa is not the silver bullet for the challenges in the health sector.
Setting up 24 hour clinics in a busy metropole such as Johannesburg would help those who need health care most.
People who attempt suicide can access medical care at their clinics but psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers are not part of the primary health care setting.
From the moment their baby is born, Australian parents receive conflicting advice on how to cope with newborn issues. What we are doing wastes our resources, but we’re not investing in alternatives.
The 94 people with mental health disorders who died after they were moved from the Life Esidemeni facility and put into inadequate care shows the poor state of mental health care in South Africa.
Africa is the last continent to embrace the need to train family physicians as a key component of the primary health care team and district hospitals.
Top contributors
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Professor of Public Health and DST/NRF Research Chair., University of the Witwatersrand
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Distinguished Professor, Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University
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Director: Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health and Professor of Rural Health, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University
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Dean and Hunterdon Professor of Public Health & Health Equity, School of Public Health, Rutgers University
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Researcher with Centre for Health Policy, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Primary Care, University of Bristol
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Brett Montgomery is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in General Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Professor and Director, Center for Value-Based Insurance Design, University of Michigan
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Assistant professor of Health Policy & Administration, University of Illinois Chicago
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Director, Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Programme Manager, Centre for Rural Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director of the Centre for Health Policy , University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, Griffith University
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Research Manager at MRC/Wits Agincourt Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand