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Author : H. C. J. Van Rensburg,Annalize Fourie,Engela Pretorius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Health care reform
ISBN : UVA:X002310727
Author : H. C. J. Van Rensburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Medical
ISBN : IND:30000100445612
Health and healthcare in South Africa attempts to capture the essence of transformation and trends in the South African health sector. It offers, on the one hand, an overview of recent and current developments in the South African health care system, and on the other, of trends in the health status of the South African population. The book is a follow-up to the well-known Health care in South Africa - structure and dynamics (Van Rensburg, Fourie & Pretorius 1992), published just before the transition to a democratic society. The book retains a strong historical thread, but the focus is generally on the nature of the transformation process, gains made and failures encountered.
Author : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190628635
THE ESSENTIAL WORK IN TRAVEL MEDICINE -- NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED FOR 2018 As unprecedented numbers of travelers cross international borders each day, the need for up-to-date, practical information about the health challenges posed by travel has never been greater. For both international travelers and the health professionals who care for them, the CDC Yellow Book 2018: Health Information for International Travel is the definitive guide to staying safe and healthy anywhere in the world. The fully revised and updated 2018 edition codifies the U.S. government's most current health guidelines and information for international travelers, including pretravel vaccine recommendations, destination-specific health advice, and easy-to-reference maps, tables, and charts. The 2018 Yellow Book also addresses the needs of specific types of travelers, with dedicated sections on: · Precautions for pregnant travelers, immunocompromised travelers, and travelers with disabilities · Special considerations for newly arrived adoptees, immigrants, and refugees · Practical tips for last-minute or resource-limited travelers · Advice for air crews, humanitarian workers, missionaries, and others who provide care and support overseas Authored by a team of the world's most esteemed travel medicine experts, the Yellow Book is an essential resource for travelers -- and the clinicians overseeing their care -- at home and abroad.
Author : Cedric De Beer
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : 086543039X
Author : Anne Digby
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 3039107151
This is an innovative investigation of pluralism in health care. Using both extensive archival material and oral histories it examines relationships between indigenous healing, missionary medicine, and 'western' biomedicine. The book includes the different regions within South Africa although focusing in most detail on the Cape, the earliest area of white settlement. In a wide-ranging survey the division in medicine between 'western' and indigenous medicine is analysed through an exploration of the evolving practices of healers, missionaries, doctors and nurses. The book considers the extent to which there was a strategic crossing of boundaries in the construction of hybrid practices by these practitioners, and the extent to which patients pursued health by sampling diverse care options. Starting with missionary penetration during the early nineteenth century, the volume outlines interventions by the colonial state in medicine and public health, and the continued resilience of indigenous healing in the face of this. The book ends by relating past to present in scrutinising the legacy of historical structures - including those of the apartheid state - for current health care, and in briefly discussing the huge challenges that the HIV/Aids pandemic poses in impacting on them. The book thus provides an inclusive history of medicine for the 'New' South Africa.
Author : Claire Botha,Michael Hendricks
Publisher : HSRC Publishers
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132871679
Summarizing the keynote addresses and deliberations that emerged from a recent colloquium, this account illustrates the need for universal access to healthcare in South Africa. Arguing that providing this service is the responsibility of the South African government, the policy analysis unit of the Human Sciences Research Council hosted this colloquium in order to facilitate debate on the subject, initiating policy dialogue and formulating ideas for those involved in health-policy development. Divided into three sections, this overview provides a discussion of the context for policy debates on health as well as a concise summary of four key themes: the reform path since 1994, critical options for health within the context of a comprehensive system of social security, local and international evidence on health-system models, and health-systems reform and stakeholder engagement. Recommendations for improving implementation and taking the process of policy development forward are also included.
Author : Quinette Louw
Publisher : AOSIS
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781928523864
This scholarly book focuses on stroke in Africa. Stroke is a leading cause of disability among adults of all ages, contributing significantly to health care costs related to long term implications, particularly if rehabilitation is sub-optimal. Given the burden of stroke in Africa, there is a need for a book that focuses on functioning African stroke survivors and the implications for rehabilitation within the African context. In addition, there is a need to progress with contextualised, person-centred, evidence-based guidance for the rehabilitation of people with stroke in Africa, thereby enabling them to lead socially and economically meaningful lives. The research incorporated in the book used a range of primary and secondary methodological approaches (scoping reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, descriptive studies, surveys, health economics, and clinical practice guideline methodology) to shed new insights into African-centred issues and strategies to optimise function post-stroke.
Author : Merle De Haan,Kathleen Dennill,Sharon Vasuthevan
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 070211961X
This comprehensive resource covers the public and community health and well-being of the populations of Southern Africa, providing an invaluable look at the region and the developmental issues that impact health through demography; disease profiles; social, economic, and political issues; and other threats to health. This updated edition includes detailed information on the roles and functions of the various United Nations agencies at work in the region. Among other diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria are addressed.
Author : Mark Britnell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781350310667
Winner of the first prize in the Health and Social Care category at the BMA Medical Book Awards 2016. With chapters on 25 different countries, this practical and succinct guide to the world's major health systems explores what lessons can be drawn from each to improve health worldwide. Each chapter is an essay designed to give the reader essential knowledge of the history, strengths, weaknesses and lessons of each health system and provide a truly global health perspective – all in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee. Whether a healthcare manager or a student studying health systems, this accessible and engaging book provides a fascinating insight in to how health care is delivered around the world.
Author : Joseph Kelly (M.A.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : IND:30000029773086
One major outcome of State President F W de Klerk's reforms has been the formal desegregation of hospitals. This book shows how hospitals began to desegregate themselves while Mr de Klerk and his collegues were still committed to apartheid in health. It analyses this process of reform from below, and assesses the role of protest and lobbying my medical students and practitioners. This book also shows how black access to primary health care could be improved by better co-operation between non-government and government providers of such care. Finally, the politically controversial question of private sector involvement in the provision of health care to blacks is studied.
Author : Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta,Tabi Chama-James Tabenyang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004436428
In Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta and Tabi Chama-James Tabenyang unpack the contentious South African government’s post-apartheid policy framework of the ‘‘return to tradition policy’’. The conjuncture between deep sociopolitical crises, witchcraft, the ravaging HIV/AIDS pandemic and the government’s initial reluctance to adopt antiretroviral therapy turned away desperate HIV/AIDS patients to traditional healers. Drawing on historical sources, policy documents and ethnographic interviews, Pemunta and Tabenyang convincingly demonstrate that despite biomedical hegemony, patients and members of their therapy-seeking group often shuttle between modern and traditional medicine, thereby making both systems of healthcare complementary rather than alternatives. They draw the attention of policy-makers to the need to be aware of ‘‘subaltern health narratives’’ in designing health policy.
Author : Aziza Seedat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : UOM:39015009142855
Report on health services and the health of blacks under Apartheid in South Africa R - covers malnutrition, infant mortality, infectious diseases, occupational health, mental health and medical personnel. Maps, photographs and references.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Community health services
ISBN : 0958415781
Author : Gubela Mji,Melanie Alperstein,Nondwe Bongokazi Mlenzana,Karen Galloway,Chioma Ohajunwa,Lieketseng Ned,Ntombekhaya Tshabalala
Publisher : AOSIS
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781928523116
In a country as diverse as South Africa, sickness and health often mean different things to different people so much so that the different health definitions and health belief models in the country seem to have a profound influence on the health-seeking behaviour of the people who are part of our vibrant, multicultural society. This book is concerned with the integration of indigenous health knowledge (IHK) into the current Western--orientated Primary Health Care (PHC) model. The first section of the book highlights the challenges facing the training of health professionals using a curriculum that is not drawing its knowledge base from the indigenous context and the people of that context. Such professionals will later recognise that they are walking without limbs in matters pertaining to health. The area that was chosen for conducting the research was KwaBomvana in Xhora (Elliotdale), Eastern Cape province, South Africa. The people who reside there are called AmaBomvana. The area where the Bomvana peoples reside is served by Madwaleni Hospital and eight surrounding clinics. Qualitative ethnographic, feminist methods of data collection supported the research done for Section 1 of the book. Section 2 comprises the translation and implementation of PhD study outcomes and had contributions from various researchers. In the critical research findings of the PhD study, older Xhosa women identify the inclusion of social determinants of health as vital to the health problems they managed within their homes. For them, each disease is linked to a social determinant of health, and the management of health problems includes the management of social determinants of health. For them, it is about the health of the home and not just about the management of disease. They believe that healthy homes make healthy villages, and that the prevention of the development of disease is related to the strengthening of the home. Health and illness should be seen within both physical and spiritual contexts; without health, there can be no progress in the home. When defining health, the older Xhosa women add three critical components to the WHO health definition, namely, food security, healthy children and families, and peace and security in their villages. Prof. Mji further proposes that these three elements should be included in the next revision of the WHO health definition because they are not only important for the Bomvana people where the research was conducted, but also for the rest of humanity. In light of the promise of National Health Insurance and the revitalisation of PHC, this book proposes that these two major national health policies should take cognisance of the IHK utilised by the older Xhosa women. In addtion to what this research implies, these policies should also take note of all IHK from the indigenous peoples of South Africa, Africa and the rest of the world, and that there should be a clear plan as to how the knowledge can be supported within a health care systems approach.
Author : H. C. J. Van Rensburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Demography
ISBN : IND:30000029483660