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Universal Health Care in Southern Africa

Author : Greg Ruiters
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 : 9781869142360
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Universal Health Care in Southern Africa written by Greg Ruiters and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth in private health care for the middle classes has resulted in deeply segregated and unequal health care, with poor people being relegated to under-resourced and unresponsive public systems, and wealthy minorities receiving world-class treatment at very high prices. - from the Introduction *** This book examines the scope for health care reform in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Both countries are undergoing significant attempts at reforming inequitable, private sector-dominated, health care systems in the context of fragile, negotiated, social settlements. In South Africa, the government is moving towards introducing a national health insurance scheme that holds the historic promise of introducing social solidarity and effective health care for all its citizens. However, key aspects of the proposed scheme remain unresolved and need to be widely debated. In Zimbabwe, mandatory national health insurance has been discussed for decades without any conclusion being reached or a system implemented. This option needs to be revisited as the economy stabilizes and confidence in governance improves. Based on extensive research, the contributors to this volume examine health care reform in historical context, analyze the views of key stakeholders, and reflect on current proposals for better health financing and more people-centered health systems, based on the principles of universality and social solidarity. Universal Health in Southern Africa is essential reading for academics, health professionals, and policy makers concerned with the historical, ideological, and institutional background to the current policy debate on the commercialization of health care and proposed alternatives, such as a national health system.

What's In, What's Out

Author : Amanda Glassman
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 1944691057
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book What's In, What's Out written by Amanda Glassman and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vaccinate children against deadly pneumococcal disease, or pay for cardiac patients to undergo lifesaving surgery? Cover the costs of dialysis for kidney patients, or channel the money toward preventing the conditions that lead to renal failure in the first place? Policymakers dealing with the realities of limited health care budgets face tough decisions like these regularly. And for many individuals, their personal health care choices are equally stark: paying for medical treatment could push them into poverty. Many low- and middle-income countries now aspire to universal health coverage, where governments ensure that all people have access to the quality health services they need without risk of impoverishment. But for universal health coverage to become reality, the health services offered must be consistent with the funds available—and this implies tough everyday choices for policymakers that could be the difference between life and death for those affected by any given condition or disease. The situation is particularly acute in low- and middle income countries where public spending on health is on the rise but still extremely low, and where demand for expanded services is growing rapidly. What’s In, What’s Out: Designing Benefits for Universal Health Coverage argues that the creation of an explicit health benefits plan—a defined list of services that are and are not available—is an essential element in creating a sustainable system of universal health coverage. With contributions from leading health economists and policy experts, the book considers the many dimensions of governance, institutions, methods, political economy, and ethics that are needed to decide what’s in and what’s out in a way that is fair, evidence-based, and sustainable over time.

Universal Health Coverage for Inclusive and Sustainable Development

Author : Akiko Maeda
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464802971
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Universal Health Coverage for Inclusive and Sustainable Development written by Akiko Maeda and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book synthesizes the experiences from Bangladesh, Brazil, France, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Japan, Peru, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam in implementing policies to achieve and sustain Universal Health Coverage. The study focuses on three aspects of UHC reforms: political economy, health financing, and human resources for health.

The Drivers of Universal Health Care in South Africa

Author : Rebecca Surender
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Drivers of Universal Health Care in South Africa written by Rebecca Surender and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To address problems of inadequate public health services, escalating private healthcare costs and widening health inequalities, the South African government has launched a radical new proposal to introduce a universal health system for all South Africans; National Health Insurance (NHI). While most attention has been thus far devoted to the economics and fiscal affordability of universal coverage, relatively less attention has been paid to wider challenges - in particular the important role played by key stakeholders tasked with designing and implementing the reforms. This paper outlines the opportunities and challenges posed by the proposed NHI reforms in South Africa. It begins by explaining the countryś current system of health care provision including its human resource structure, functions and cost implications. It then summarizes the deficits and limitations of the current two-tiered health system and discusses what NHI is trying to achieve within this context and how it hopes to address the problems. Finally, the paper examines the political and institutional challenges the reforms will face with a particular focus on the actors involved. The findings suggest that the government will face considerable challenges to its proposed reform path and that the eventual design of the new system may have to be a compromised version of the system envisaged in the original Green Paper. In particular the government will face significant challenges in garnering the support of sections of the medical profession tasked with implementing the reforms.

Approaches to Universal Health Coverage and Occupational Health and Safety for the Informal Workforce in Developing Countries

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309374065
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Universal Health Coverage and Occupational Health and Safety for the Informal Workforce in Developing Countries written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universal health coverage (UHC) has been recognized by the World Health Organization as a key element in reducing social inequality and a critical component of sustainable development and poverty reduction. In most of the world UHC is sought through a combination of public and private-sector health care systems. In most low- and middle-income countries health systems are evolving to increasingly rely on the private sector because the public sector lacks the infrastructure and staff to meet all health care needs. With growing individual assets available for private-sector expenditure, patients often seek better access to technology, staff, and medicines. However, in low-income countries nearly 50 percent of health care financing is out-of-pocket. With the expected increase in the overall fraction of care provided through the private sector, these expenditures can be financially catastrophic for individuals in the informal workforce. In the global workforce of approximately 3 billion people, only 10 to 15 percent are estimated to have some type of access to occupational health services. The informal workforce is growing worldwide, and the degree to which its occupational health needs are satisfied depends on the capabilities of the general health care system. In July 2014, the Institute of Medicine held a workshop on approaches to universal health coverage and occupational health and safety for informal sector workers in developing countries. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from this workshop. Approaches to Universal Health Coverage and Occupational Health and Safety for the Informal Workforce in Developing Countries identifies best practices and lessons learned for the informal workforce in developing countries in the financing of health care with respect to health care delivery models that are especially suitable to meeting a population's needs for a variety of occupational health issues, including the prevention of or mitigation of hazardous risks and the costs of providing medical and rehabilitation services and other benefits to various types of workers within this population. These experiences and lessons learned may be useful for stakeholders in moving the discussions, policies, and mechanisms forward to increase equitable access to quality health services without financial hardship for the informal workforce.

Crossing the Global Quality Chasm

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309477891
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Crossing the Global Quality Chasm written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. However, enormous gaps remain between what is achievable in human health and where global health stands today, and progress has been both incomplete and unevenly distributed. In order to meet this goal, a deliberate and comprehensive effort is needed to improve the quality of health care services globally. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide focuses on one particular shortfall in health care affecting global populations: defects in the quality of care. This study reviews the available evidence on the quality of care worldwide and makes recommendations to improve health care quality globally while expanding access to preventive and therapeutic services, with a focus in low-resource areas. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm emphasizes the organization and delivery of safe and effective care at the patient/provider interface. This study explores issues of access to services and commodities, effectiveness, safety, efficiency, and equity. Focusing on front line service delivery that can directly impact health outcomes for individuals and populations, this book will be an essential guide for key stakeholders, governments, donors, health systems, and others involved in health care.

Delivering Quality Health Services: A Global Imperative

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264300309
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Delivering Quality Health Services: A Global Imperative written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes the current situation with regard to universal health coverage and global quality of care, and outlines the steps governments, health services and their workers, together with citizens and patients need to urgently take.

Health Care in South Africa

Author : H. C. J. Van Rensburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Health Care in South Africa written by H. C. J. Van Rensburg and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Primary Health Care in Southern Africa:

Author : Kathy Dennill
Publisher : OUP Southern Africa
ISBN 13 : 9780195997712
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Primary Health Care in Southern Africa: written by Kathy Dennill and published by OUP Southern Africa. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primary Health Care in Southern Africa: A comprehensive approach 3e focuses on primary health care, drawing on an Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) approach. It covers topics such as international views on primary health care, community participation in health care and communication in health care.

Health and Health Care in South Africa

Author : H. C. J. Van Rensburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health and Health Care in South Africa written by H. C. J. Van Rensburg and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health and healthcare in South Africa attempts to capture the essence of transformation and trends in the South African health sector. It offers, on the one hand, an overview of recent and current developments in the South African health care system, and on the other, of trends in the health status of the South African population. The book is a follow-up to the well-known Health care in South Africa - structure and dynamics (Van Rensburg, Fourie & Pretorius 1992), published just before the transition to a democratic society. The book retains a strong historical thread, but the focus is generally on the nature of the transformation process, gains made and failures encountered.

Global Diffusion of EHealth: Making Universal Health Coverage Achievable

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9241511788
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Global Diffusion of EHealth: Making Universal Health Coverage Achievable written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third global survey of the WHO Global Observatory for eHealth (GOe) investigated how eHealth can support universal health coverage(UHC) in Member States. A total of 125 countries participated in the survey ? a clear reflection of the growing interest in this area. The report considers eHealth foundations built through policy development funding approaches and capacity building in eHealth through the training of students and professionals. It then observes specific eHealth applications such as mHealth telehealth electronic health records systems and eLearning and how these contribute to the goals of UHC. Of interest is the extent to which legal frameworks protect patient privacy in EHRs as health care systems move towards to delivering safer more efficient and more accessible health care. Finally the rapidly emerging areas of social media for health care as well as big data for research and planning are reported.

Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights

Author : Markus Kaltenborn
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030304698
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights written by Markus Kaltenborn and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book analyses the interplay of sustainable development and human rights from different perspectives including fight against poverty, health, gender equality, working conditions, climate change and the role of private actors. Each aspect is addressed from a more human rights-focused angle and a development-policy angle. This allows comparisons between the different approaches but also seeks to close gaps which would remain if only one perspective would be at the center of the discussions. Specifically, the book shows the strong connections between human rights and the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015. Already the preamble of this document explicitly states that "the 17 Sustainable Development Goals ... seek to realise the human rights of all". Moreover, several goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda correspond to already existing individual human rights obligations. The contributions of this volume therefore also address how the implementation of human rights and SDGs can reinforce each other, but also point to critical shortcomings of the different approaches.

Going Universal

Author : Daniel Cotlear
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 146480611X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Going Universal written by Daniel Cotlear and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about 24 developing countries that have embarked on the journey towards universal health coverage (UHC) following a bottom-up approach, with a special focus on the poor and vulnerable, through a systematic data collection that provides practical insights to policymakers and practitioners. Each of the UHC programs analyzed in this book is seeking to overcome the legacy of inequality by tackling both a “financing gap†? and a “provision gap†?: the financing gap (or lower per capita spending on the poor) by spending additional resources in a pro-poor way; the provision gap (or underperformance of service delivery for the poor) by expanding supply and changing incentives in a variety of ways. The prevailing view seems to indicate that UHC require not just more money, but also a focus on changing the rules of the game for spending health system resources. The book does not attempt to identify best practices, but rather aims to help policy makers understand the options they face, and help develop a new operational research agenda. The main chapters are focused on providing a granular understanding of policy design, while the appendixes offer a systematic review of the literature attempting to evaluate UHC program impact on access to services, on financial protection, and on health outcomes.

Health Systems Financing

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9241564024
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Health Systems Financing written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This World Health Report was produced under the overall direction of Carissa Etienne ... and Anarfi Asamoa Baah ... The principal writers were David B. Evans ... [et al] -- t.p. verso.

Rediscovering Public Law and Public Administration in Comparative Policy Analysis

Author : Stéphane Nahrath
Publisher : EPFL Press
ISBN 13 : 2880748437
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering Public Law and Public Administration in Comparative Policy Analysis written by Stéphane Nahrath and published by EPFL Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publié à l'occasion du 60e anniversaire du Prof. Peter Knoepfel, Professeur à l'Institut de hautes études en administration publique (IDHEAP).

EBOOK: Purchasing to Improve Health Systems Performance

Author : Josep Figueras
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335225004
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book EBOOK: Purchasing to Improve Health Systems Performance written by Josep Figueras and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2005-03-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchasing is championed as key to improving health systems performance. However, despite the central role the purchasing function plays in many health system reforms, there is very little evidence about its development or its real impact on societal objectives. This book addresses this gap and provides: ·A comprehensive account of the theory and practice of purchasing for health services across Europe ·An up-to-date analysis of the evidence on different approaches to purchasing ·Support for policy-makers and practitioners as they formulate purchasing strategies so that they can increase effectiveness and improve performance in their own national context ·An assessment of the intersecting roles of citizens, the government and the providers Written by leading health policy analysts, this book is essential reading for health policy makers, planners and managers as well as researchers and students in the field of health studies. Contributors: Toni Ashton, Philip Berman, Michael Borowitz, Helmut Brand, Reinhard Busse, Andrea Donatini, Martin Dlouhy, Antonio Duran, Tamás Evetovits, André P. van den Exter, Josep Figueras, Nick Freemantle, Julian Forder, Péter Gaál, Chris Ham, Brian Hardy, Petr Hava, David Hunter, Danguole Jankauskiene, Maris Jesse, Ninel Kadyrova, Joe Kutzin, John Langenbrunner, Donald W. Light, Hans Maarse, Nicholas Mays, Martin McKee, Eva Orosz, John Øvretveit, Dominique Polton, Alexander S. Preker, Thomas A. Rathwell, Sabine Richard, Ray Robinson, Andrei Rys, Constantino Sakellarides, Sergey Shishkin, Peter C. Smith, Markus Schneider, Francesco Taroni, Marcial Velasco-Garrido, Miriam Wiley

Financing South Africa's National Health System Through National Health Insurance

Author : Claire Botha
Publisher : HSRC Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Financing South Africa's National Health System Through National Health Insurance written by Claire Botha and published by HSRC Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summarizing the keynote addresses and deliberations that emerged from a recent colloquium, this account illustrates the need for universal access to healthcare in South Africa. Arguing that providing this service is the responsibility of the South African government, the policy analysis unit of the Human Sciences Research Council hosted this colloquium in order to facilitate debate on the subject, initiating policy dialogue and formulating ideas for those involved in health-policy development. Divided into three sections, this overview provides a discussion of the context for policy debates on health as well as a concise summary of four key themes: the reform path since 1994, critical options for health within the context of a comprehensive system of social security, local and international evidence on health-system models, and health-systems reform and stakeholder engagement. Recommendations for improving implementation and taking the process of policy development forward are also included.