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South African Health Review 2003/04

Health Systems Trust

Published July 2004

Health Systems Trust: http://www.hst.org.za
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The promotion of equity in health is one of the basic ideologies underlying South African health policy. Therefore, it is befitting after ten years of democracy to gauge how far the health system has moved towards providing equitable health services to all citizens is concerned. This 2003/04 SAHR, the 9th edition, consists of an overview and 24 chapters, each describing a key health concern. Unlike many of the previous Reviews, this years is data driven. It uses different sources of information to measure and assess the health and well-being of South Africans quantitatively. An overview of the key achievements and challenges is given in the chapter Ten years on have we got what we ordered?


Table of contents

Chapter 1: Ten Years On - Have we got what we ordered?
Author/s: Antoinette Ntuli and Candy Day

Chapter 2: Health Legislation 1994 - 2003
Author/s: Lisa Forman, Yogan Pillay and Lynette Sait
Commentary
Keith Wimble

Chapter 3: Monitoring Hospital Care: Development and use of indicators in hospital service management
Author/s: Andrew Burn and Gugu Shongwe

Chapter 4: Health Status
Author/s: Debbie Bradshaw and Nadine Nannan
Commentary
Molefi Sefularo

Chapter 5: Reproductive Health
Author/s: Jenni Smit, Mags Beksinska, Arthi Ramkissoon, Busi Kunene and Loveday Penn-Kekana

Chapter 6: STI Baseline Survey - STI Indicator Information from the National Baseline Assessment of STI and HIV services in SA public sector health facilities
Author/s: Arthi Ramkissoon, Immo Kleinschmidt, Mags Beksinska, Jenni Smit, Jabu Hlazo and Zonke Mabude

Chapter 7: Maternal Health
Author/s: Robert Pattinson

Chapter 8: Child Health
Author/s: Geoff Solarsh and Ameena Goga
Commentary
Craig Househam

Chapter 9: Youth Risk Behaviour
Author/s: Rakshika Bhana

Chapter 10: Trends in Youth Risk for HIV
Author/s: Debbie Bradshaw, Audrey Pettifor, Catherine MacPhail and Rob Dorrington

Chapter 11:Health of Older Persons
Author/s: Jan Joubert and Debbie Bradshaw

Chapter 12: Disability and Disablement
Author/s: Pam McLaren, Geoff Solarsh and Gillian Saloojee

Chapter 13: Chronic Diseases
Author/s: Priscilla Reddy

Chapter 14:HIV/AIDS
Author/s: Tanya Doherty and Mark Colvin
Commentary
Nono Simelela

Chapter 15: Tuberculosis
Author/s: Lesley Bamford, Marian Loveday and Sabine Verkuijl

Chapter 16: Sexually Transmitted Infections - Routine Monitoring and Clinical Sentinel Surveillance
Author/s: Itumeleng Funani, Rita Sonko, Eva Marumo, Simeon Odugwu and Christoph Hamelmann
Commentary
Kerry Cullinan

Chapter 17: Malaria
Author/s: Devanand Moonasar, Caron Lisa Johnson, Bonnie Maloba, Philip Kruger, Kobus le Grange, Jotham Mthembu and Jan van den Ende

Chapter 18: Cholera
Author/s: Leonard Mudzanani, Matsie Ratsaka-Mathokoa, Lusanda Mahlasela, Pakiso Netshidzivhani and Charles Mugero

Chapter 19: SARS: Forewarned, Forearmed
Author/s: Joris Vandelanotte and Steven Donohue

Chapter 20: Health Care Financing
Author/s: Mark Blecher and Stephen Thomas
Commentary
Ian Couper

Chapter 21: Medical Schemes
Author/s: Stephen Harrison

Chapter 22: Human Resources
Author/s: Ashnie Padarath, Antoinette Ntuli and Lee Berthiaume
Commentary
Susan Goldstein and Shereen Usdin

Chapter 23: Access to Antiretroviral Therapy
Author/s: Petrida Ijumba, Colwyn Poole, Gavin George and Andy Gray

Chapter 24: Facilities Survey 2003 - Selected findings from the fourth national survey of primary health care facilities
Author/s: Candy Day, Gavin Reagon, James Irlam and Jonathan Levin

Chapter 25: Health Indicators
Author/s: Candy Day and Calle Hedberg


To access individual chapters from the report, go to:

http://www.hst.org.za/publications/423




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