scholarly journals Strengthening Community Participation in Primary Health Care: Experiences from South Africa

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Gibbs ◽  
Catherine Campbell
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Health Care Experiences ◽  
Primary Health

Community Participation in the National Development Plan Through Primary Health Care

2019 ◽  
pp. 160-178
Author(s):  
Johannes Ntshilagane Mampane
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
National Development ◽  
Development Plan ◽  
National Development Plan ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
Care Approach

The chapter explores and describes community participation in the National Development Plan through Primary Health Care by using case studies of LGBT organizations in South Africa. Post-Apartheid and democratic South Africa has endorsed community participation as one of the fundamental pillars of the public Primary Health Care approach in its governance structures. This chapter focuses on the current major health issue in South Africa, the HIV epidemic, which is one of the leading causes of death in the country. Particular attention is paid to members of the LGBT community because of their discrimination in public healthcare facilities on grounds of their sexual orientation. The chapter relies on secondary sources of data collection from extant literature, textbooks, journal articles, and internet sources. Challenges to address LGBT community discrimination in HIV testing, prevention, treatment, care, and support were identified and solutions to uphold their human rights were proffered. These solutions are based on the principles of social justice, inclusion, diversity, and equality.

Community Participation in the National Development Plan Through Primary Health Care

2022 ◽  
pp. 657-671
Author(s):  
Johannes Ntshilagane Mampane
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
National Development ◽  
Development Plan ◽  
National Development Plan ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
Care Approach

The chapter explores and describes community participation in the National Development Plan through Primary Health Care by using case studies of LGBT organizations in South Africa. Post-Apartheid and democratic South Africa has endorsed community participation as one of the fundamental pillars of the public Primary Health Care approach in its governance structures. This chapter focuses on the current major health issue in South Africa, the HIV epidemic, which is one of the leading causes of death in the country. Particular attention is paid to members of the LGBT community because of their discrimination in public healthcare facilities on grounds of their sexual orientation. The chapter relies on secondary sources of data collection from extant literature, textbooks, journal articles, and internet sources. Challenges to address LGBT community discrimination in HIV testing, prevention, treatment, care, and support were identified and solutions to uphold their human rights were proffered. These solutions are based on the principles of social justice, inclusion, diversity, and equality.

scholarly journals Lessons from community participation in primary health care and water resource governance in South Africa: a narrative review

2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hove ◽  
Lucia D’Ambruoso ◽  
Kathleen Kahn ◽  
Sophie Witter ◽  
Maria van der Merwe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Primary Health

scholarly journals Problem-Orientated Antenatal Notekeeping: A Useful Primary Health Care Tool

Curationis ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
J.V. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Obstetric Care ◽  
Antenatal Screening ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Risk Patients

It has recently been demonstrated that about 56 percent of patients delivering in a rural obstetric unit had significant risk factors, and that 85 percent of these could have been detected by meticulous antenatal screening before the onset of labour. These figures show that the average rural obstetric unit in South Africa is dealing with a large percentage of high risk patients. In this work, it is hampered by: 1. Communications problems: i.e. bad roads, long distances. and unpredictable telephones. 2. A serious shortage of medical staff resulting in primary obstetric care being delivered by midwives with minimal medical supervision.

Impact of community participation in primary health care: what is the evidence?

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessamy Bath ◽  
John Wakerman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Service Access ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Intermediate Outcomes ◽  
The Impact

Community participation is a foundational principle of primary health care, with widely reputed benefits including improved health outcomes, equity, service access, relevance, acceptability, quality and responsiveness. Despite considerable rhetoric surrounding community participation, evidence of the tangible impact of community participation is unclear. A comprehensive literature review was conducted to locate and evaluate evidence of the impact of community participation in primary health care on health outcomes. The findings reveal a small but substantial body of evidence that community participation is associated with improved health outcomes. There is a limited body of evidence that community participation is associated with intermediate outcomes such as service access, utilisation, quality and responsiveness that ultimately contribute to health outcomes. Policy makers should strengthen policy and funding support for participatory mechanisms in primary health care, an important component of which is ongoing support for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services as exemplars of community participation in Australia. Primary health-care organisations and service providers are encouraged to consider participatory mechanisms where participation is an engaged and developmental process and people are actively involved in determining priorities and implementing solutions.

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