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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 ...
Policy adoption and the implementation woes of the intersectoral first 1000 days of childhood initiative, in the Western Cape province of South Africa
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2021)
There is a growing interest in implementing intersectoral approaches to address social determinants especially within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) era. However, there is limited research that uses policy analysis ...
Prioritizing people and rapid learning in times of crisis: A virtual learning initiative to support health workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic
(Wiley, 2021)
The Western Cape province was the early epicentre of the
coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in South Africa and on
the African continent. In this short article we report on an
initiative set up within the provincial ...
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 ...
Evidence of past and current collaborations between traditional health practitioners and biomedical health practitioners: A scoping review protocol
(BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP, 2021)
Healthcare seekers around the globe use
more than one healthcare system, with most using the
traditional and the Western approaches concurrently. To
date, little collaboration between the two systems has
taken place ...