The National Health Insurance Policy Paper (NHI) that was promulgated in 2011, marks the beginning of the South African Department of Health’s journey into delivering a health system that offers universal coverage to all it’s citizens, that is free at the point of contact. (NHI, 2011) The implementation of this new health system faces many challenges such as the impact of HIV/AIDS. This research was conducted to ascertain what this impact would be according to subject matter experts in the field.Twenty interviews with experts from the different stakeholder groups were undertaken.The findings revealed that there is dire a need for a new health system to offer financial risk protection and universal coverage to all South African residents. Health Systems strengthening will form a significant part of the reformation that is needed to get the health system to work efficiently. HIV/AIDS must be monitored and managed carefully to avoid multi-drug resistant strains from emerging. An existing model has been adapted for the purposes of this study that allows focus on the various components of the health system. Each component or building block will need attention and strategic direction to ensure that the entire system can function holistically, seamlessly and efficiently. / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / unrestricted

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / The continuum of care is a public health framework for improving maternal health outcomes by providing comprehensive health services, at different levels of the health system and across the lifecycle. The framework emphasizes the importance of interventions to address the social determinants of health as well, alongside healthcare services. Although the framework is useful for visualizing service organization, it has not been adequately integrated into policy and practice in South Africa. In addition, there is currently no comprehensive approach to monitor and evaluate service provision along the continuum of care. The current approach is fragmented across programs and sectors and focuses on only a handful of indicators. This research explores an approach for measurement and monitoring of a comprehensive continuum of care for maternal health in South Africa, with implications for application in other low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Magister Artium (Development Studies) - MA(DVS) / South African health professionals’ competencies, especially those of managers have been placed under the spotlight. In the community health centres (CHCs) situated in low socio-economic status areas in Cape Town, a shortage of human resources has been an area of importance, as it exacerbates the impact of competence and service delivery by the healthcare managers.

Thesis (LLM ( Labour law)) --University of Limpopo, 2013 / Refer to document