South African Health Review 1999

Policy makers, planners and managers in the health sector remain our primary target and over the years, readership has expanded to include researchers, academics, and students, as well as health and development organisations and health systems experts in South Africa and internationally. The chapters represent a combination of commissioned research, experience, and available published literature, and the focus on equity, central to the 1998 Review, has been retained in a number of chapters.

Contents

Overview
1 Poverty, human rights and health
2 Health Legislation
3 Equity in public sector health care financing and expenditure
4 Managed health care
5 Health insurance dynamics
6 The public-private mix
7 STD care in the private sector
8 Patient choice of primary care provider
9 State-aided Hospitals
10 Health Services provided by religious communities
11 Establishing the District Health System
12 District health information systems
13 Drug policy
14 Improving quality of services
15 The production of doctors
16 Distribution of human resources
17 Monitoring the implementation of community service
18 Traditional Healers
19 Occupational health services in South Africa
20 Environmental health services
21 Health promotion
22 HIV/AIDS and STDs
23 Tuberculosis
24 Trauma and injury
25 Mental Health
26 Termination of Pregnancy
27 Health Research in South Africa
Health and related indicators
References
Index