New policy briefs

• Top health economist ranking for HEU honorary professor

  HEU Honorary professor Stephen Birch has been ranked among the most influential health economists in the world in a report prepared for the World Bank.
  Read full article: http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/main/news/news_2011/health_economists.html
  Find out more about Prof Birch: http://heu-uct.org.za/about-heu/staff/professor-stephen-birch/

  Friday, February 3rd, 2012

• National Health Insurance conference

  The Department of Health held a conference at the end of last year in the Midrand to further consult with the public about policy proposals for the National Health Insurance implementation. Health Economics Unit Professor Di McIntyre’s presentation looked at financing options for South Africa. The conference aimed to elicit policy inputs from as many [...]

  Friday, February 3rd, 2012

• New working paper

  This paper explores factors that predict deprivation and are associated with multiple counts of deprivation in Nsukka, Nigeria. Different conceptions of poverty were constructed: the traditional money-metric measure and differing multidimensional constructs of poverty. Data from a survey of households in Nsukka were used. The counting and FGT methodologies were used to measure poverty and [...]

  Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

• New journal article

  The 58th World Health Assembly called for all health systems to move towards universal coverage where everyone has access to key promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health interventions at an affordable cost. Universal coverage involves ensuring that health care benefits are distributed on the basis of need for care and not on ability to pay. [...]

  Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

• New journal article

  Alcohol consumption accounts for over 4% of the global burden of disease and an even higher figure in developing countries. Several policies have been proposed to curb the negative impact of alcohol misuse. Apart from South Africa, which has witnessed a rapid development in alcohol policy, such policies are poorly developed in most African countries. [...]

  Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

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  Thursday, January 12th, 2012

• South African health managers speak out: Lessons for innovative health management in the public sector

  A new report has just been published that provides insights from the Oliver Tambo Fellowship Programme (OTFP) conference entitled Innovative Health Management in the Public Sector. Attended health system leaders, the conference “provided a platform for sharing experience and dialogue among those engaged in, and supporting, health system leadership in South Africa”. The report is [...]

  Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

• New articles in International Journal for Equity in Health:

  HEU research has been published in two articles of the International Journal for Equity in Health:

  Who pays for health care in Ghana? (by Di McIntyre & colleagues) -  Financial protection against the cost of unforeseen ill health has become a global concern as expressed in the 2005 World Health Assembly resolution (WHA58.33), which urges its [...]

  Friday, November 11th, 2011

• The HEU and partners will present findings from the researching equity in access to health care (REACH) project at the upcoming PHASA (Public Health Association of South Africa) conference in Gauteng from 28 to 30 November 2011.

  The REACH project has been running for 4 years. Study sites include Mpumalanga, the Western Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The study is using maternal health, TB and ARV as tracers to assess equity and access in regards to services in these areas.
  This PHASA conference is focusing on reducing health inequities so it [...]

  Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

• Improving hospital management a priority, 24 October 2011

  With a green paper released for public consultation, role-players and citizens have, for the first time, some concrete information as to how the South Africa health-care landscape is going to be transformed….PRETORIA NEWS

  Thursday, October 27th, 2011