Research: Health Systems Research

1. The Impact of Decentralisation on Reproductive Health Services (RHD)

Funder: European Union/Nuffield Institute for Health
Principal investigators: Jaine Roberts and Wendy Hall
Description: The study is a multi-country comparative analysis of progress with the decentralization of reproductive health services in South Africa, Uganda, Mali and Burkina Faso.  It has been undertaken in partnership with European partners and other African research groups who assisted in drawing together the input
Duration: The four year RHD project is now completed. 

2. Baseline Audit of Resources Available For Information Management at A National and Provincial Level

Funder: National Department of Health: Research Directorate.
Principal investigators: Marian Loveday in support of Ronel Visser (HealthLink)
Description: This rapid operational research study seeks to understand the constraints that exist in the information management system from the human as well as information technology perspective. It aims to inform improvements needed in the system.
Duration: July 2006 to March 2007

3.  Situation Analysis of PHC Infrastructure 2007: Informing a National PHC Facilities Audit: What Information Is Currently Available?

Funder: National Department of Health: Research Directorate.
Principal investigator: Elizabeth Lutge supervisor, researcher Thokozani Mbatha
Description: The study was a baseline to document the availability of information on PHC infrastructure.
Duration: January 2007 to June 2007

4. Occupational Disease Burden on the Public Health System – the Functioning of Surveillance Systems under the DoH’s Medical Bureau for Occupational Disease (MBOD) and Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act (ODMWA)

Funder:  National Department of Health: Research Directorate.
Principal Investigator: Jaine Roberts
Description: This study will research health systems issues in relation to the activities of the MBOD and the new Occupational Health Directorate. It will focus on a range of occupationally acquired pneumoconioses, and the responsibility, under the ODMWA, of the DoH to provide medical surveillance, certification and compensation services.
Duration: Start delayed: August 2007 to January 2008

5. Refugee Health in South Africa

Funder:  National Department of Health: Research Directorate.
Principal investigator: Dr Teke Apalata, supervised by Elizabeth Lutge
Description: The study investigates the perceptions of refugees in Durban of their own health status, and the care they receive from health facilities. It has been undertaken as a means to support capacity development in the public health sector.
Duration: The study is completed

6. Operationalising Health as a Human Right: Monitoring Tools to Support Implementation of the Patient’s Rights Charter in the Health Sector

Funder: National Department of Heath: Research Directorate.
Principal investigators: Professor Leslie London and Zelda Holtman
Description: A study of the implementation of the Health Rights Charter and the application of monitoring tools.
Duration:  This multi-year study is now complete

7. Health Care Waste Management in Public Clinics in the Ilembe District: Situational Analysis and Intervention Strategy

Funder: National Department of Heath: Research Directorate
Principal investigator: Sibusiso Gabela a student undertaking a Masters in Public Health with the University of KwaZulu Natal under the supervision of Dr Steven Knight. It has been undertaken as a means to support capacity development in the Public sector.
Description: This study investigated current Health Care Waste (HCW) handling practises in the public clinics in the iLembe District to determine the HCW components and volumes generated by the public clinics. It sought to find out whether public clinics have the HCW management policy in place and that they are implementing it correctly.
Duration: The study has been completed.

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