Archive for the ‘In the Media’ Category

The amount spent on private healthcare is inequitable and unsustainable, the Board of Healthcare Funders conference heard from numerous speakers. Professor Di Mclntyre, of the Health Economics Unit at the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town, told the conference that while it was a given that the public [...]

Private health care service providers would be hauled before Parliament to explain why their system had only favoured the rich, Bevan Goqwana, the chairman of the portfolio committee on health, said yesterday….BUSINESS REPORT

The death rate among young people from illnesses such as tuberculosis and pneumonia, often connected to HIV/Aids, tripled over a nine-year period, a Statistics South Africa study has shown. Dr Susan Cleary, UCT’s Health Economic Unit director, said it was important to rectify the damage done because of the significant drop in spending on public [...]

DEPUTY Health Minister Molefi Sefularo extended a reconciliatory hand to the private healthcare sector yesterday, saying that the government would welcome its assistance in implementing the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme, but warned it would go ahead regardless…..BUSINESS DAY

The New York Times has published an article about the latest Lancet special series on health in South Africa. HEU research featured in the Lancet is listed as follows: MOONEY, G. & GILSON, L. The economic situation in South Africa and health inequities. COOVADIA, H., JEWKES, R., BARRON, P., SANDERS, D. & MCINTYRE, D. The [...]

“Although I’d always wanted to specialise in health economics, such opportunities were not available in Ethiopia. Indeed, health economics is a rare specialisation area, not offered in most low and middle-income countries”…… UCT MONDAY PAPER

The principles of a national health insurance (NHI) are simple—access to healthcare for all and everyone pitching in to pay for everyone….MAIL & GUARDIAN

I am a health economist visiting South Africa from Australia. With respect to South African society, as a foreigner the thing that strikes me more than anything is the continuing poverty amidst such incredible affluence……. Cape Times

Proposals for a fairly radical overhaul of the country’s healthcare system – including the seemingly inevitable demise of medical schemes – are likely to make all private healthcare users fearful about the future of their cover…………Personal Finance