Useful Resources

All resources in this category are non-HST publications. They are ordered according to the year published and the date posted on this site. To search for a specific publication, please use the search bar at the top of the page and restrict your search to publications.
Rapid Mortality Surveillance Report
Medical Research Council | 2012
A Rapid Mortality Surveillance (RMS) system was established to monitor the trend in the number of deaths recorded on the national population register at a time when there was a substantial time lag in the cause-of-death reports being produced by Stats SA. This report presents an analysis of the...
Global tuberculosis report 2012
World Health Organization | 2012
This is the seventeenth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that started in 1997. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress in implementing and financing TB prevention, care and control at global, regional and country levels...
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012
United Nations | 2012
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012 presents new estimates of undernourishment based on a revised and improved methodology. The new estimates show that progress in reducing hunger during the past 20 years has been better than previously believed, and that, given renewed efforts, it may...
Standard Treatment Guidelines and Essential Medicines List for South Africa - 2012 Edition
Department of Health (South Africa) | 2012
INTRODUCTION It is my pleasure to introduce the third edition of the Standard Treatment Guidelines and Essential Medicines List for Hospital Level. This edition marks the culmination of an intense and thorough review process. The Standard Treatment Guidelines have been aligned with current...
Improving Maternal Mortality and Other Aspects of Women's Health,
Center For Strategic and International Studies(CSIS) | 2012
Over the past several decades, the world has witnessed some astonishing global health success stories—from the eradication of smallpox to the expanding control of other vaccine-preventable diseases to the widespread provision of effective treatment for HIV/AIDS to millions of people. Yet...
Newsletter of the District Health System - October 2012
Department of Health (South Africa) | 2012
Contents Editorial Municipal Ward-Based PHC Teams School Health Services District Clinical Specialist Teams Contraceptive and Fertility Policy ART Monitoring: the Three Tier System
The MDG Gap Task Force Report 2012: The Global Partnership for Development: Making Rhetoric a Reality
United Nations | 2012
In its 2012 Report, the MDG Gap Task Force has had difficulty identifying areas of significant new progress towards delivering on commitments to the Global Partnership for Development, and for the first time there are signs of backsliding. The volume of official development assistance (ODA) fell...
WHO Global Health Expenditure Atlas
World Health Organization | 2012
The global health expenditure database that WHO has maintained for the past ten years, provides internationally comparable numbers on national health expenditures. WHO updates the data annually, taking, adjusting and estimating the numbers based on publicly available reports (national health...
The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2012
Brot für die Welt (Bread for the World), FIAN International and Interchurch Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO) | 2012
The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2012 addresses the decision making process on global food and nutrition from this human rights perspective. The question “who decides?” includes the question “who is excluded from decision making?” Food and power are related. It is...
Business Plans For National Health Insurance Conditional Grant - All provinces
Department of Health (South Africa) | 2012
National Health Insurance The National Health Insurance (NHI) is a financing system that will make sure that all citizens of South Africa (and legal long-term residents) are provided with essential healthcare, regardless of their employment status and ability to make a direct monetary...