sahr2001 - Health Systems Trust

Eastern Cape
Free State
Gauteng
KwaZulu-Natal
Mpumalanga
Northern Cape
Northern Province
North West
Western Cape
South Africa
Percentage clinics with family planning services every week day
1998 6 94.0 96.0 81.0 58.0 58.0 89.0 100.0 79.0 72.0 83.0
2000 7 96.7 96.0 82.1 95.0 46.4 87.5 100.0 87.5 70.0 87.1
Utilisation Rate PHC
2000 8 2.1 1.8 1.4 1.7 1.3 2.2 2.0 2.3 2.7 1.9
1. Note: Provincial-aided hospitals are also referred to as Private sector not-for-profit hospitals.
CHC = Community Health Centres or day hospitals
Ref: SAHR 1999 Ch9 (Figure 1 pg 104)
2. Ref: SAHR 1998 Ch13 (Table 5 pg 148)
3. Note: Hospitals and Day Clinics
Ref: NHA Private 2001 (Table 2.2 pg 8 )
4. Note: Public sector health facilities. National Central Hosp includes Universities, Chris Hani Baragwanath, Ga Rankuwa, Johannesburg, Pretoria Academic, King
Edward VIII, Wentworth, Groote Schuur, Red Cross and Tygerberg.
Ref: Fiscal Review 2001 (Table 4.14 pg 54)
5. Ref: NHA Private 2001 (Table 2.2 pg 8)
6. Ref: Facilities Survey 1998
7. Ref: Facilities Survey 2000
8. Ref: DHIS Dec 2001
Health Personnel
Together with the data on the number and type of health facilities, these data
are an indicator of physical access. It should be noted that the measure of the
number of personnel may differ between the public and private sectors. Where
the ratio is presented as per sector, the population denominator used was
that considered to be dependent on the sector in question. The private sector
dependent population was approximated by the population covered by
medical aid, with the balance assumed to be public-sector dependent (as
shown in the section on Demographic Indicators). PERSAL remains the major
source of public sector data, but the figures provided are open to some
question. It remains possible to appoint a person from one professional group
against a post initially funded for another group - for example, pharmacist
interns may be employed against unfilled pharmacist posts in some provinces.
Specifically, it should be noted that vacancy rates for the individual professions
could not be obtained, and that only the overall public sector rate for each
provincial Department of Health and the national total could be portrayed.
The South African public sector figures given are the totals for all the
provinces, and do not include the relatively small numbers of health
professionals employed by the National Department of Health.
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