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International comparison of South African private hospital price levels

Lorenzoni, Luca; Roubal, Tomas - 2016

The health system in South Africa is unique in many ways. South Africa spends 41.8% of total health expenditures on private voluntary health insurance – more than any OECD country – but only 17% of the population – mostly high income citizens - can afford to purchase private insurance....

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'Because I Want to Be Informed, to Be Part of the Decision-Making' : Patients' Insights on Informed Consent Practices by Healthcare Professionals in South Africa

Chima, Sylvester - 2015

Background: Informed consent (IC) is a legally enforceable right in South Africa based on constitutionally protected rights to bodily integrity and well-being. In terms of the law, patients cannot be involved in medical treatment or research without IC. Healthcare providers must inform patients...

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Social Grants, Welfare, and the Incentive to Trade-Off Health for Income among Individuals on HAART in South Africa

Venkataramani, Atheendar; Maughan-Brown, Brendan; … - 2014

South Africa’s government disability grants are considered important in providing income support to low-income AIDS patients. Indeed, anecdotal evidence suggests that some individuals may opt to compromise their health by foregoing highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) to remain...

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Does Abolishing User Fees Lead to Improved Health Status? Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa

Tanaka, Shinsuke - 2014

Whether user fees for basic health services should be charged or abolished for the poor has recently been debated. This study examines the impact on child health status of removing user fees in South Africa. Our main innovation is to exploit plausibly exogenous variation in access to free...

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Between Conflict and Cooperation - Global-National Interfaces and the Fight Against Hiv/Aids in Brazil and South Africa

von Soest, Christian; Calcagnotto, Gilberto; Weinel, Martin - 2015

This paper endeavours to analyse the relationship between Global Health Governance and national health politics in the case of HIV/AIDS. The paper compares Brazil and South Africa as two cases in which the relationship between national politics and GHG has been structured in contrasting ways,...

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Have Pro-Poor Health Policies Improved the Targeting of Spending and the Effective Delivery of Health Care in South Africa?

Burger, Ronelle; Grobler, Christelle - 2007

Since 1994 there have been a number of radical changes in the public health care system in South Africa. Budgets have been reallocated, decision making was decentralised, the clinic network was expanded and user fees for primary health care were abolished. The paper examines how these recent...

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Consumer-Driven Health Care in South Africa : Lessons from Comparative Health Policy Studies

Jost, Timothy Stoltzfus - 2005

Consumer-driven health care, based on health savings accounts and high deductible health insurance policies, seems to be the next big thing in U.S. health policy. Long supported by conservative and libertarian advocacy groups, it received a big-boost with the HSA tax subsidy provisions of the...

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The use of activity-based costing in South African private health care industry

Botha, Gideon; Vermaak, Frans - In: Journal of economic and financial sciences 8 (2015) 2, pp. 518-535

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Private hospitals in South Africa : current trends and models for the future

Broomberg, Jonathan; Chetty, Kamy; Masobe, Patrick - 1992

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Emerging multinationalists : the South African hospital industry overseas

Mortensen, Jon (contributor) - 2008

. Multinational Companies (MNCs) operating in the hospital sector are gaining momentum and, as this paper reveals, they are not only … from rich developed countries. Through a case-study of three South African private hospital firms, the focus in this paper … and are today the leading global players in the hospital industry. …

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