Background: South Africa is implementing national health insurance (NHI) and primary
health care (PHC) re-engineering, and has concomitantly introduced the Human Resources …

Background Improving the quality of health care is a national priority in many countries to
help reduce unacceptable levels of variation in health system practices, performance and …

Abstract Background The definition of Primary Health Care (PHC) issued by the World
Health Organisation in 1978 indicated that essential health care should be made accessible …

Contingent Citizens examines the ambiguous state of South Africa's public sector workers
and the implications for contemporary understandings of citizenship. It takes us inside an …

The need for leadership in and of district health systems is critical for the effective delivery of
services and for inter-sectoral collaboration for health. Leadership capacity development …

The contribution of the District Clinical Specialist Teams (DCSTs) to improving maternal and
child health outcomes in South Africa, through strengthening the four pillars of clinical …

In this article, we consider the conduct of post-apartheid health care in a policy context
directed toward entrenching democracy, ensuring treatment-adherent patients, and creating …

Background: There exists a major disparity in access to specialist care between patients in
urban and rural areas. Specialists are a scarce resource and are concentrated in urban …

There is a global shortage of healthcare professionals, but in the social economic
environment of Africa workforce numbers are lower than the global average per head of …

We present an interpretive qualitative account of micro-level activities and processes of
clinical governance by recently introduced district-based clinical specialist teams (DCSTs) in …