Browsing by Subject "Health system"
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Exploring how different modes of governance act across health system levels to influence primary healthcare facility managers’ use of information in decisionmaking: experience from Cape Town, South Africa
(BMC, 2017)BACKGROUND: Governance, which includes decision-making at all levels of the health system, and information have been identified as key, interacting levers of health system strengthening. However there is an extensive ... -
Health system actors' perspectives of prescribing practices in public health facilities in Eswatini: A Qualitative Study
(Public Library of Science, 2020)Rational medicines use (RMU) is the prescribing/dispensing of good quality medicines to meet individual patient's clinical needs. Policy-makers, managers and frontline providers play critical roles in safeguarding medicine ... -
Health system responsiveness: A systematic evidence mapping review of the global literature
(BMC, 2021)The World Health Organisation framed responsiveness, fair financing and equity as intrinsic goals of health systems. However, of the three, responsiveness received significantly less attention. Responsiveness is essential ... -
Leisure pursuits in South Africa as observed during the COVID-19 pandemic
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)This paper aims to present the leisure pursuits in South Africa as observed during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the world was hit by the pandemic as early as January 2020, South Africa recorded its first case on 5 March ... -
Organizational change and everyday health system resilience: Lessons from Cape Town, South Africa
(Elsevier, 2020)This paper reports a study from Cape Town, South Africa, that tested an existing framework of everyday health system resilience (EHSR) in examining how a local health system responded to the chronic stress of large-scale ... -
Policies and clinical practices relating to the management of gestational diabetes mellitus in the public health sector, South Africa – a qualitative study
(BioMed Central, 2018)BACKGROUND: Women with a prior gestational diabetes have an increased lifetime risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Although post-partum follow-up for GDM women is essential to prevent progression to type 2 diabetes, it is ...