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The trouble at the Health Professions Council of South Africa
This Brief looks at the issues at the Health Professions Council of South Africa as well as discusses the Minister of Health's Ministerial Task Team's Report.
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THE UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE: A MODEL FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN HEALTH SYSTEM?
Andrew Barlow looks at the UK's NHS - an internationally lauded and nationally loved single-payer universal health care system - and how the many issues its ...
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THE SCIENCE BEHIND MARIJUANA
This Brief looks at the science behind marijuana and discusses that marijuana is not as bad as Governments want us to think.
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UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE I - The World Health Organization on UHC and South Africa
The first brief in a five part series contributed to by both Andrew Barlow and Charles Simkins. This brief plays a general and introductory role; as well as ...
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UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE II – Mandated Insurance: Austria and Germany
The first brief in this series introduced the concept of Universal Health Coverage, as defined by the World Health Organisation. It looked at how the NHI White ...
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UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE III – Two Tier: Israel and the Netherlands
The second brief in this series dealt with the insurance mandate systems used by Austria and Germany to finance UHC. This brief reviews the two tier systems of ...
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UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE IV – Single Payer: Canada
The third brief in this series dealt with the two-tier systems used to finance UHC by Israel and the Netherlands. This brief now turns to the single payer ...
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UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE V – Conclusions
Charles Simkins reviews the previous four briefs, pulling together themes and proposing how the government could affect genuinely meaningful change to South ...
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Community Primary Health Care Outreach Teams: a Game-Changer?
Andrew Barlow looks at Brazil's wildly successful Family Health Strategy programme, and how a similar initiative could be rolled out here in South Africa.
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HOW FAR IS THE 2015 NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE WHITE PAPER AN ADVANCE ON THE 2011 GREEN PAPER: A USER’S GUIDE
This Brief does a comparison between the National Health Insurance (NHI) White Paper and the NHI Green Paper to ascertain differences, advancements and ...
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