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District governance and improved maternal, neonatal and child health in South Africa: Pathways of change
(Health systems and reform, 2020)
District-level initiatives to improve maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) generally do not take governance as their primary lens on health system strengthening. This paper is a case study of a district and sub-district ...
Perceptions and experiences of frontline health managers and providers on accountability in a South African health district
(Springer Nature, 2020)
Public primary health care and district health systems play important roles in expanding healthcare access and promoting equity. This study explored and described accountability for this mandate as perceived and experienced ...
Using an equity-based framework for evaluating publicly funded health insurance programmes as an instrument of UHC in Chhattisgarh State, India
(Springer Nature, 2020)
Universal health coverage (UHC) has provided the impetus for the introduction of publicly funded health insurance (PFHI) schemes in the mixed health systems of India and many other low- and middle-income countries. There ...
Measures to strengthen primary health-care systems in low-and middle-income countries
(World Health Organization, 2020)
Primary health care offers a cost–effective route to achieving universal health coverage (UHC). However, primary health-care systems are weak in many low-and middle-income countries and often fail to provide comprehensive, ...
Looking back to look forward: a review of human resources for health governance in South Africa from 1994 to 2018
(Springer Nature, 2020)
While South Africa has had a fairly consistent record of producing national-level strategic plans for human resources for health in the past 25 years, the country continues to face major problems of affordability, availability, ...
The first thousand days within the Western Cape whole of society approach: Lessons for the collaborative governance of intersectoral action for health
(Researchgate, 2020-11)
This report is a case study of the Western Cape’s Whole of Society Approach (WoSA)
through the lens of the First Thousand Days (FTD) of childhood initiative, focusing in
particular on its implementation in Saldanha Bay ...
The impact of differing frames on early stages of intersectoral collaboration: The case of the first 1000 days initiative in the Western Cape Province
(Springer Nature, 2020)
While intersectoral collaboration is considered valuable and important for achieving health outcomes, there are few examples of successes. The literature on intersectoral collaboration suggests that success relies on a ...