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South African Health Review 2008

Series Name: 
South African Health Review
Published by: 
Health Systems Trust

The theme of this 13th edition of the Review, launched in December 2008, is Primary Health Care in South Africa: A review of 30 years since Alma Ata. The SAHR 2008 chapters focus on critical issues in Primary Health Care. The Review includes a national and international perspective of Primary Health Care, and focuses on areas such as policy and legislation, determinants of health, lifestyle, infectious diseases, mental health, maternal and child health, nutrition and environmental health. The SAHR reviews issues around human resources, finance, and information. It also looks at research on health systems, the role of the private and non-governmental organisations in Primary Health Care, and ends with the relevant health and related indicators chapter.

Full SAHR 2008 [pdf 10.5MB]

Foreword [pdf 833Kb]
Contents and Acknowledgements [pdf 460Kb]
Editorial [pdf 509Kb]

Primary Health Care: In Context
1 International Perspective on Primary Health Care Over the Past 30 Years [pdf 599Kb]
2 A Perspective on Primary Health Care in South Africa [pdf 570Kb]
3 Health Legislation and Policy [pdf 616Kb]
4 Determinants of Health and their Trends [pdf 311Kb]

Primary Health Care: Programme Areas
5 Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases [pdf 637Kb]
6 STIs, HIV and AIDS and TB: Progress and Challenges [pdf 624Kb]
7 Community Access to Mental Health Services: Lessons and Recommendations [pdf 541Kb]
8 Maternal, Newborn and Child Health: 30 Years On [pdf 595Kb]
9 Nutrition: A Primary Health Care Perspective [pdf 668Kb]
10 Developments in Environmental Health [pdf 1.32Mb]

Primary Health Care: Systems Support
11 Strengthening Human Resources for Primary Health Care [pdf 676Kb]
12 Primary Health Care Financing in the Public Sector [pdf 614Kb]
13 Information for Primary Health Care [pdf 629Kb]
14 A Review of Health Research in South Africa from 1994 to 2007 [pdf 600Kb]
15 The Role of Private and Other Non-Governmental Organisations in Primary Health Care [pdf 590Kb]

Indicators
16 Health and Related Indicators [pdf 5.88Mb]

Glossary [pdf 62Kb]
Index [pdf 60Kb]

Lessons Learned from AIDS 2012

Published by: 
Center For Strategic and International Studies(CSIS)

The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) released a report (.pdf) reflecting on lessons learned at the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012), which took place in Washington, D.C., in July.  The report  examines what AIDS 2012 achieved, why the CSIS advisory group was formed, what accounts for its impacts, and what that experience may foretell for future International AIDS Conferences.

South African Health Review 2011

Series Name: 
South African Health Review
Published by: 
Health Systems Trust

The SAHR 2011 provides valuable policy and empirical information on a range of issues that are related to and impact on the Negotiated Service Delivery Agreement and primary health care re-engineering as envisaged by the National Department of Health (NDoH). A range of experts provide commentary on topics ranging from rural health, health technology to human resources. SAHR 2011 also contains a section on core health issues, where developments in health information systems, financing health care, and health legislation and policy are discussed. The Review concludes with the Indicators chapter which presents a selection of the best available data on the functioning and performance of the health system.

The Integration of Health Services

Series Name: 
HST Update
Published by: 
Health Systems Trust
The Department of Health adopted the district health system as the vehicle to render primary health care in 1995/6. This policy is reflected, inter alia, in the White Paper on the Transformation of the National Health System published in April 1997. In addition, the view that local government should govern health districts as capacity is developed at municipal level, was also expressed a few years ago and continues to be the policy of the Department. The link between local government and health districts is a logical one given the need for local accountability, the importance of community participation and the need to meet local health needs. These and other principles are listed in the district health system policy document published towards the end of 1995. In addition, the Constitution makes provision for municipalities to render various services, either as delegated or assigned functions or, as in the case of municipal health services, as core functions.