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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Public health care"”.
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Socioeconomic inequalities in Zambia's public health care delivery system
… taken to mean that individuals in equal need of health care should use the same amount of care, irrespective of their socioeconomic status. Using the above definitions, this thesis, examines equity/inequality in the utilization of public health care in Zambia. Concentration curves, concentration …
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An evaluation of the access to public health care for diabetic patients in Zimbabwe
… affected all sectors of the economy, including health care. Resources for health care have significantly dwindled and the population's disposable incomes are very low. However, the burden of disease due to HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria and Diabetes is increasing unabated. Thus, the current study seeks …
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A planning approach to inform funding for public health care services in South Africa
… thesis examines the "supply" and "demand" for health care expenditure in South Africa's public sector health care services. In this context supply refers to the availability of funding and demand to the requirement for funding. The literature review focuses on the health sector planning and its …
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Migrant women's access to public health care services in Makhado, Limpopo: a case of Zimbabwean women
… fore migrant women's experiences when accessing public health care services within underdeveloped communities. The study explored Zimbabwean migrant women's experiences in accessing public health care services in Makhado, a small town based in Limpopo, South Africa which has only two public …
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Outcomes of mechanical thrombectomy at a single-centre tertiary level public health care hospital in South Africa
… Mechanical thrombectomy (MT) is standard of care for acute ischemic stroke from large vessel occlusion following randomized controlled trials performed largely in high-income countries. Limited data exists on its effectiveness in the real-world setting, particularly in low- and middle-income …
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A historiography of South Africa's public health care governance affecting health system strength from the 1940s to 2023
… labour and various forms of racist economic, health and land policies entrenched deliberate social disintegration in the country. The political economy formalised the maldistribution of health by ensuring the expansion of debilitating diseases like tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS throughout the …
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Infertility in the public health care system in South Africa : patients' experiences, reproductive health knowledge and treatment-seeking behaviour
Infertility is a common reproductive health problem in Africa. The experiences of men and women who are unable to conceive, their constructs of infertility, their motives for parenthood, and their health-seeking behaviour are, however, inadequately documented in South Africa. In order to improve …
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The significance of Continuity of Care in the context of chronic ARV care in the Public Health Care system
Continuity of care (COC) is a fundamental concept in Family Medicine. The rollout of antiretrovirals in the primary care setting of the public health care system in South Africa was 'vertically' isolated from the other clinics. This isolation provides a rich environment to research COC. The present …
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Older people´s public health care and social services. Functional ability, health complaints, agreement in needs assessment and care satisfaction
… to describe and compare functional ability and health complaints of older people receiving municipal care in relation to housing and informal care, and factors associated with medical health care, municipal care and informal care. Further, the aim was to investigate agreement in needs …
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Improving service delivery at a public health care clinic through a quality management system : the case of Hartebeeskop Clinic in Elukwatini, Mpumalanga
This work is submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Management Sciences Specialising in Quality Management at the Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2024.
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Improving access to maternal health care beyond health care policy: pregnant women's experience of maternal public health care services in Cape Town, South Africa
Unequal access to maternal health care continues to be a concern in South Africa despite the efforts of government and health practitioners to make the system more inclusive and accessible to all women, especially for women who have been previously disadvantaged prior to and during Apartheid. …
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Reach out and be healed : constitutional rights to traditional African healing
The introduction of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act 22 of 2007 has made lawful the practice of traditional healing. As everyone has the right of access to health care services, the question of whether the state bears a duty to reasonably provide access to traditional healing as an element …
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Engagement/involvement of staff from public medical Institutions with pregnant women experiencing intimate partner violence - a systematic review of African & South African literature
This study explores how staff at public health care institutions respond to intimate partner violence (IPV) experienced by pregnant women living in South Africa and Africa. This study aimed to investigate what protocols/pathways staff at public health care institutions (PHCI) use to identify, …
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Decentralised resource allocation and its impact on equitable health care financing
… (i) Map the financing of non-hospital primary health care within local government areas in South Africa; analyse the equity of financing health care in relation to need (iii) and document the process followed at provincial and local government level in decision making around budgeting for …
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Assessment of waiting and service times in public and private health care facilities in Gondar district, North western Ethiopia
… of equitable and acceptable standard of health services to all segments of the population has been the major objective of the 1993 Ethiopian National health policy. However, community based studies on satisfaction with public health care facilities reveal that the majority of the …
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Health Care Financing Policies in South Korea: The Interaction of National Characteristics and Influences From More Developed Nations
… most developing countries have introduced health care financing programs modelled after developed nations. However, this process of technology transfer has typically not been well thought through, especially in relation to "goodness of fit" with national characteristics and traditions. In …
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A feminist anthropology of barriers to implementing the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act (CTOP)
… barriers within communities and at the community healthcare level that impede delivery of reproductive healthcare rights- in particular it focuses on the South African Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act (CTOP), which came into effect in 1996. In their scoping study of abortion related research …
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