SAHR 2007 - Health Systems Trust

Contents
Editorial
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Oversight: Principles and Policy
1 Stewardship: Protecting the Public's Health 3
Laetitia Rispel and Geoffrey Setswe
2 Health Policy and Legislation 19
Debbie Pearmain
Pooling of Resources and Purchasing of Health Care
3 Health Care Financing and Expenditure 35
Di McIntyre and Michael Thiede
4 Medical Schemes 47
Heather McLeod and Shivani Ramjee
5 Social or National Health Insurance 71
Di McIntyre and Alex van den Heever
6 Health Information Systems in the Private Health Sector 89
Patrick Matshidze and Lyn Hanmer
7 Health and Health Care in the Workplace 103
Shahieda Adams, Reno Morar, Tracy Kolbe-Alexander and Mohamed F Jeebhay
8 Rationing of Medicines and Health Care Technology 123
Bettina Taylor
Health Care Delivery
9 Human Resources for Health 141
Haroon Wadee and Farzana Khan
10 Public-Private Partnerships:
A Case Study of the Pelonomi and Universitas Hospital Co-Location Project 151
Shadrack Shuping and Sipho Kabane
11 Private Hospitals 159
Thulani Matsebula and Michael Willie
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