Methodological challenges in evaluating health care financing equity in data-poor contexts: Lessons from Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania

2009 ◽  
pp. 133-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine Borghi ◽  
John Ataguba ◽  
Gemini Mtei ◽  
James Akazili ◽  
Filip Meheus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Financing ◽  
Methodological Challenges

Factors influencing the burden of health care financing and the distribution of health care benefits in Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. i46-i54 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Macha ◽  
B. Harris ◽  
B. Garshong ◽  
J. E. Ataguba ◽  
J. Akazili ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Financing ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Health Care Benefits

Structuring Sustainable Universal Health Care in South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-245
Author(s):  
Salimah Valiani
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
South African ◽  
Health Care Financing ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Universal Health Care ◽  
African Health ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Universal Health

Intervening in debates around universal health care in South Africa, this article draws on class-based analytical tools from social medicine, political economy, and historical sociology. It is argued there are 3 keys to achieving sustainable universal health care in South Africa: addressing the socioeconomic roots of ill health; establishing a fully public, nonprofit health care system; and adequate investment in undervalued female workers who are the backbone of public health care. Each key is discussed with accompanying recommendations, using evidence from South Africa and other countries. Principal constraints are also identified through an analysis demonstrating the links between inequality, health care financing, and the monopoly structure of the South African health care industry.

Modernization, Globalization, Trends, and Convergence in Health Expenditure in Latin America and the Caribbean

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiri Noy ◽  
Patricia A. McManus
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Health Care Financing ◽  
Health Spending ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Differences ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Public Private Mix

Are health care systems converging in developing nations? We use the case of health care financing in Latin America between 1995 and 2009 to assess the predictions of modernization theory, competing strands of globalization theory, and accounts of persistent cross-national differences. As predicted by modernization theory, we find convergence in overall health spending. The public share of health spending increased over this time period, with no convergence in the public-private mix. The findings indicate robust heterogeneity of national health care systems and suggest that globalization fosters human investment health policies rather than neoliberal, “race to the bottom” cutbacks in public health expenditures.

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