Who benefits from health services in South Africa?

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Ele-Ojo Ataguba ◽  
Di McIntyre

AbstractSouth Africa is considering major health service restructuring to move towards a universal system. This calls for understanding the challenges in the existing health system. The paper, therefore, comprehensively evaluates an aspect of current health system performance – the benefit incidence of health services. It seeks to understand how the benefits from using health services in South Africa are currently distributed across socio-economic groups. Using a nationally representative household survey, results show that lower socio-economic groups benefit less than their richer counterparts from both public and private sector health services, and that the distribution of service benefits is not in line with their need for care.

AIDS ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (14) ◽  
pp. 1525-1534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey E Pettifor ◽  
Helen V Rees ◽  
Immo Kleinschmidt ◽  
Annie E Steffenson ◽  
Catherine MacPhail ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Mbuso Mabuza ◽  
Constance Shumba

South Africa is faced with a huge challenge of addressing the high burden of tuberculosis-human immune virus (TBHIV) co-infection, and this challenge is more pronounced in the province of KwaZulu-Natal which has one of the highest burdens of TB-HIV co-infection in the world. The study explored the experiences of doctors and nurses with regard to the management of tuberculosis and HIV coinfection in a TB-HIV high burden community in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The particular focus was to provide insight and to inform policy and programme development for effective management of TB-HIV co-infection in the TB-HIV high burden community of northern KwaZulu- Natal. An interpretivist exploratory qualitative approach was employed through individual semi-structured interviews of 16 participants comprising eight doctors and eight nurses, with a total interview time of 8.95 hours. Purposive sampling was used to select the doctors and nurses from the public and private sector of the TB-HIV high burden community of northern KwaZulu- Natal. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. Five key themes emerged from this study and these themes were discussed together with the sub-themes based on the various participant responses. The five key themes were practical experience about the management of TB-HIV co-infection; access to information and training on the management of TB-HIV co-infection; challenges and concerns about the management of TB-HIV co-infection; perception about local beliefs; and knowledge of policies and guidelines. Overall, this study highlights barriers that hamper the effective management of TB-HIV co-infection in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Recommendations of this study point towards an urgent need to scale up the management of TB-HIV co-infection through effective policies, improved capacity and infrastructure, stronger partnerships of all stakeholders, and further research.


Author(s):  
Muna M. Mahfud ◽  
Fathia M. Nour ◽  
Hodan J. Abdi ◽  
Sabah M. Muse ◽  
Tim Fader

Four family physicians, who received their specialty training at Amoud University in Somaliland, organised a practice together that uses informal public–private partnerships to optimise their clinical care and teaching. Their experience offers insights into public–private partnerships that could strengthen the country’s healthcare system.


Author(s):  
Andreas Wörgötter ◽  
Sihle Nomdebevana

AbstractThis paper investigates the public-private remuneration patterns in South Africa with time-series methods for the first time since the introduction of an inflation-targeting framework in 2000. Co-integration tests and analysis confirm that there is a stable, long-run relationship between nominal and real remuneration in the public and private sector. The adjustment to the deviations from this long-run relationship is strong and significant for public-sector remuneration, while private-sector wages neither respond to deviations from the long-run relationship nor lagged changes in public-sector remuneration. The causal direction from private- to public-sector remuneration does not change if real earnings are calculated with the gross domestic product deflator. This is confirmed by simple Granger-causality tests.


Author(s):  
Jesús E. Tumi Quispe ◽  
Alberth Jesús Tumi Rivas

<p>El objetivo del estudio esta centrado en caracterizar las expresiones de la exclusión social en la pobreza y en las condiciones de acceso a las oportunidades vitales de la población en la Región Puno. La investigación es de carácter seccional, descriptivo, cuantitativo y de nivel meso. Las referencias empíricas se sustentan en información oficial: Censo Nacional de población, mapa de pobreza, IDH, IDS, indicadores sectoriales (educación, salud, vivienda, saneamiento) e instrumentos de gestión estratégica y programática. Los resultados del estudio son: En la región Puno, la exclusión, como proceso sociopolítico, se expresa en la desigualdad social, la inequidad y la pobreza; cuyo resultados concretos se advierten en el acceso diferenciado a las oportunidades vitales de empleo, educación y salud. Las condiciones de acceso al empleo, de la mayoría de la población en la región Puno, denotan su carácter de inequidad y desigualdad; debido a las escasas oportunidades que tiene la población en el sector publico y privado, situación que conlleva a la generación del autoempleo o la condición de subocupado o desempleado especialmente de la población vulnerable o en situación de pobreza. Las condiciones de acceso a la educación básica en la región Puno, esta signado por su carácter excluyente, especialmente de la población en situación de pobreza y las localizadas en el área rural; denotando no solo su alto sentido de inequidad y desigualdad social, sino también, su precariedad en cuanto a la calidad de la educación. Las condiciones de acceso a los servicios de salud de la población en la región Puno, de manera análoga, denota su carácter de inequidad y exclusión social para la población vulnerable y localizada en el área rural; esta situación se agudiza, debido a que los servicios de salud que se brindan no son culturalmente adecuados.  </p><p> </p><p align="center"><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p><p>The objective of this study is focused on characterizing the expressions of social exclusion in the poverty and the conditions of access to the vital opportunities of the population in the Puno region. The research is of character sectional, descriptive, quantitative and meso level. Empirical references are based on official information: National Census of Population, poverty map, IDH, IDS, sectoral indicators (education, health, housing, sanitation) and instruments of strategic and programmatic management. The results of the study are: in the Puno region, exclusion, as sociopolitical process, is expressed in the social inequality, inequality and poverty; whose concrete results are seen in the differential access to vital opportunities of employment, education and health. The conditions of access to employment, of the majority of the population in the Puno region, denote its character of inequity and inequality; Due to the limited opportunities that the population in the public and private sector, a situation that leads to the generation of self-employment or the condition of underloaded or unemployed especially of the vulnerable population or in a situation of poverty. The conditions of access to basic education in the Puno region, is marked by its exclusive nature, especially of the population in poverty and those located in rural areas; denoting not only its high sense of social inequity and inequality, but also, its precariousness in regard to the quality of education. The conditions of access to health services for the population in the Puno region, similarly, denotes his character of inequity and social exclusion for the vulnerable population and located in the rural area; this situation is exacerbated, due to the health services that are provided are not culturally appropriate.</p>


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