Browsing by Author "Christian, Carmen"
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Access to health care in post-apartheid South Africa: availability, affordability, acceptability
Burger, Ronelle; Christian, Carmen (Cambridge University Press, 2018)We use a reliable, intuitive and simple set of indicators to capture three dimensions of access – availability, affordability and acceptability. Data are from South Africa’s 2009 and 2010 General Household Surveys (n=190,164). ... -
Alternative mechanisms for delivery of medication in South Africa: A scoping review
Mash, Robert; Christian, Carmen; Chigwanda, Ruvimbo V (AOSIS, 2021)Background: The number of people in South Africa with chronic conditions is a challenge to the health system. In response to the coronavirus infection, health services in Cape Town introduced home delivery of medication ... -
Patient perceptions of the quality of health services in South Africa quality management conference (in association with COHSASA)
Christian, Carmen (2018)Patient perceptions of quality drives acceptability of health services (Penchansky and Thomas, 1981). ▪ Services not acceptable less likely to return for follow-up, less likely to seek healthcare, more likely to access ... -
Patient predictors of health-seeking behaviour for persons coughing for more than two weeks in high-burden tuberculosis communities: The case of the Western Cape, South Africa
Christian, Carmen; Burger, Cobus; Claassens, Mareli (Springer Nature, 2019)This study aimed to analyse the patient predictors of health-seeking behaviour for persons coughing for more than 2 weeks to better understand this vulnerable and important population.The study analysed data from a cohort ... -
Predictors of mask-wearing during the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from South Africa
Burger, Ronelle; English, Rene; Maughan-Brown, Brendan; Christian, Carmen (Oxford University Press, 2022)Background: In the absence of a vaccine, the global spread of COVID-19 during 2020 has necessitated non-pharmaceutical interventions to curb the rise of cases. Purpose: The article uses the health belief model and a ... -
Protecting the standardised patient in TB scenarios: The South African study
Christian, Carmen; Gerdtham, Ulf; Hompash, Dumisani (2019)SPs used in TB scenarios experience repeated exposure to TB in high risk settings. Exposure for each TB standardised patient.an average of 2.5 hours per facility - at least 19 times - over a five-week period.Public ...