Managing the healthcare demand-supply gap during and after COVID-19: The need to review the approach to healthcare priority-setting in South Africa
| Autor: | Sumaiyah Docrat, D Besada, C. R. Tamandjou Tchuem, Emmanuelle Daviaud, G C Solanki, Thomas Wilkinson, Susan Cleary |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Economic growth
National Health Programs Population Supply and demand Health care rationing South Africa Health care Humans Medicine education Health policy Health Services Needs and Demand education.field_of_study Health Care Rationing Health Equity Health Priorities SARS-CoV-2 business.industry Health Policy Public sector COVID-19 General Medicine Health Services Health equity Health Care Reform Health care reform InformationSystems_MISCELLANEOUS business |
| Zdroj: | SAMJ: South African Medical Journal, Volume: 111, Issue: 1, Pages: 20-22, Published: JAN 2021 South African Medical Journal; Vol. 111 No. 1 (2021); 20-22 |
| ISSN: | 2078-5135 0256-9574 |
| Popis: | Healthcare demands are rising globally, and regardless of the approach to financing and delivering healthcare services, no country can meet all the healthcare demands of its population. The demand-supply gap for healthcare services in South Africa (SA) is large, particularly for the public sector. The objectives of this article are to examine some of the underlying factors contributing to this gap, and how the COVID- 19 pandemic is likely to impact on them, and to describe why SA needs to adopt an explicit and equity-informed approach to healthcare priority-setting to assist in managing the gap. |
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