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2 paź 2014 · Twenty years after the fall of apartheid, social and economic disparities persist in South Africa and have a profound effect on the health of the population. HIV infection and tuberculosis remain...
1 mar 2021 · Despite the end of apartheid in the early 1990s, South Africa remains racially and economically segregated. The country is beset by persistent social inequality, poverty, unemployment, a heavy burden of disease and the inequitable quality of healthcare service provision.
30 lis 2023 · The analysis suggests that in South Africa politics; the power of the private sector; competing policy priorities and budgetary constraints; and ideas, values and ideologies have been particularly important in constraining, and sometimes spurring, health system reform efforts.
This article aims to probe the extent of differentiation and diversity of experience for the largely overlooked group of black doctors in training and practice under the apartheid regime and briefly assesses how singular this South African experience was within an international context.
We use a reliable, intuitive and simple set of indicators to capture three dimensions of access - availability, affordability and acceptability. Data are from South Africa's 2009 and 2010 General Household Surveys (n=190,164).
South Africa is a segregated, caste-like society with a sources uniquely enforced through the laws of the country. each side of the caste line are apparent in all aspects of life in education, in occupations, in living places, in dwellings, resources and the ownership of land-but health for the whole.
The current crisis in health and health care in South Africa results from a combination of factors: the legacy of apartheid; issues of poverty, income inequality and AIDS; and the more recent influence of neoliberal economic policies and globalisation.
