The NHI bill aims to ensure that all South Africans have access to quality healthcare services.
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Removal of user fees or full subsidisation of insurance premiums doesn’t fully eliminate financial access barriers.
Less than 1 in 10 people living with a mental health condition in South Africa receive the care that they need.
The South African government is going ahead with the National Health Insurance scheme but has yet to detail how it is to be funded. What seems certain is that taxpayers will foot the bill.
A market inquiry has looked into private health care costs in South Africa.
South Africa’s health care needs to be reformed so that everyone has access regardless of affordability or location.
The bill to provide universal health care in South Africa is not the silver bullet for the challenges in the health sector.
South Africa has one last hurdle to cross before it implements a sugar tax to prevent a wide-range of obesity related non-communicable diseases.
Bold leadership is needed to adapt Canada’s expensive and mediocre health-care system for an aging population struggling with chronic disease.
President Jacob Zuma failed to focus on reforms that fix any of the health care in South Africa in the next five years.
In a bid to improve health care in South Africa, President Jacob Zuma has made several promises in the last three years. Some have materialised faster than others.
Healthcare that everyone can access is an important step in bridging the inequality in a country. In reality though, its hard to implement properly.
To turn around the performance of South Africa’s health system and make it more equal, there are three challenges that need to be addressed.
The South African government’s plan to provide universal access to health care seems to be slipping off its priority list.
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Professor of Public Health and DST/NRF Research Chair., University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University
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Professsor of Public Health; Co-Director Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa; Panel Member, Private Healthcare Market Inquiry, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director, Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategy Extramural Unit, SAMRC, University of Pretoria
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Programme Manager, Centre for Rural Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Researcher, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, PRICELESS SA, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wits School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Chair of Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies, Adjunct Professor in the School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the School of Health Sciences,, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Senior lecturer in taxation, Stellenbosch University Business School and Extraordinary Professor at UNISA, Stellenbosch University
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Acting Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University, Queen's University, Ontario
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Stauffer-Dunning Fellow in Global Public Policy and Adjunct Professor at the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Health Services and Policy Research, Queen's University, Ontario
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Stauffer-Dunning Chair and Executive Director, Queen's School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
