Browsing by Subject "healthcare"

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    Analysing the structure and nature of medical scheme benefit design in South Africa
    (2015) Kaplan, Josh Tana; Ramjee, Shivani
    This dissertation intends to shed light on open-membership medical scheme benefit design in South Africa. This will be done by analysing the benefit design of 118 benefit options, so as to provide an overview of the structure and nature of the benefit offerings available in the market in 2014. In addition, affordability of these benefit options was analysed in order to identify whether or not there exist connections between the benefits on offer and the price of cover. This paper will argue that at present, the large number of benefit options available in the market, the lack of standardisation between benefit options, together with the mosaic of confusing terminology employed in scheme brochures, creates a highly complex environment that hampers consumer decision making. However, this implicit complexity was found to be necessary owing to the incomplete regulatory environment surrounding medical schemes. The findings of this investigation show that benefit design requires significant attention in order to facilitate equitable access to cover in South Africa.
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    Gender and Access to Antiretroviral Treatment in South Africa.
    (Taylor & Francis, 2008) Nattrass, Nicoli
    This paper explores the gender dimensions of access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in South Africa. It shows that women are more vulnerable to HIV infection than men, but that women access HAART in disproportionately large numbers. Regression analysis on data from the South African Demographic and Health Survey suggests that men in general access health services less readily than women. This 'masculinity factor' accounts for most of the difference between men and women when it comes to accessing HAART. Although men were more likely to favor traditional medicine than women, this was not a statistically significant factor, and it appears that visiting a traditional healer is complementary to, rather than a substitute for, accessing HAART. In short, it seems that gendered norms that make it difficult for men to admit weakness and seek medical attention are the main probable cause for the low proportions of men accessing HAART.
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    Human rights key: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex themed key
    (2013) Mitchell, Veronica
    This resource aims to provide information to promote the health of sexual and gender minorities. The LGBTI Key is a new theme on the Human Rights Key with links to numerous multimedia resources. It can be a useful teaching and learning tool for educators, students and healthcare providers. It can also assist individuals who may experience discrimination and stigma when wishing to access health care.
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    Innovative Finance Week 1 Video 5 - Impact healthcare
    (2019) Ngoepe, Tsakane
    In this video we focus on the issues concerning the health sector. We highlight that unlike the rest of the world, many countries in emerging markets continue to suffer many communicable diseases, which in turn reduces the life excpectancy of their population. we highligh that the gap in financing health outcomes gives an opportunity fr private investment to meet the world's healthcare needs. This is video 5/11 in week 1 of the Innovative Finance: Hacking Finance to change the World course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 1 - Interdisciplinarity in the medical humanities
    (2015-01-21) Reid, Steve
    In this video, Professor Steve Reid describes how when looking at the practices of healthcare and medicine there are two perspectives we could consider, namely from the outside-in and from the inside-out. He explains how the outside-in perspective comes from the social sciences and arts while the inside-out represents the medical sciences. This is the eighth video in Week 1 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 1 - Welcome to the course
    (2015-01-21) Reid, Steve; Levine, Susan
    In this video, Associate Professor Susan Levine and Professor Steve Reid from the University of Cape Town introduce the purpose and design of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course. They introduce the concept of medical humanities as a pedagogy to assist in the education and training of medical students in South Africa, addressing the specific social and cultural experiences of healthcare in South Africa and how an interdisciplinary approach between the humanities and medical science can provide a useful lens for addressing the healthcare needs of the country. This is the first video in Week 1 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 2 - In dialogue about children's voices
    (2015-01-21) Levine, Susan; Callaghan, Nina; Abney, Kate; Hendricks, Marc
    In this video, Associate Professor Susan Levine pose questions to Dr. Hendricks, Dr. Kate Abney, as well as Nina Callaghan in an attempt to unlock some of the synergies that brings their various perspectives into focus. Marc Hendricks is asked how doctors take care of themselves in dealing with the deaths, illness and victories of their patients’ stories. Kate talks about how she has used art as part of her research methodology and discusses how the issue of time surfaced in her work at the TB hospital. Nina provides an example of a child she had worked with. This is the fifth video in Week 2 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.