{"title":"The role of non-governmental organisations in strengthening the South African health system: a commentary","authors":"Y. Pillay","doi":"10.1177/00812463221083062","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The need to strengthen the South African health system (public and private) has long been acknowl-edged. South Africa’s failure to meet the health-related Millennium Development Goals (Byass et al., 2015) and the challenges to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, especially given the impact of COVID-19 on health outcomes, point to the need to strengthen the health system. Various policies have been developed to address the challenges experienced by the system – the latest of which is National Health Insurance (NHI). Many Ministers of Health have recognised that government working alone will not be able to solve the many challenges that the health sector faces. In this commentary, we focus on non-governmental organisations and their roles in supporting government to strengthen the health system.","PeriodicalId":47237,"journal":{"name":"South African Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"South African Journal of Psychology","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00812463221083062","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The need to strengthen the South African health system (public and private) has long been acknowl-edged. South Africa’s failure to meet the health-related Millennium Development Goals (Byass et al., 2015) and the challenges to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, especially given the impact of COVID-19 on health outcomes, point to the need to strengthen the health system. Various policies have been developed to address the challenges experienced by the system – the latest of which is National Health Insurance (NHI). Many Ministers of Health have recognised that government working alone will not be able to solve the many challenges that the health sector faces. In this commentary, we focus on non-governmental organisations and their roles in supporting government to strengthen the health system.
加强南非(公共和私营)卫生系统的必要性早已得到承认。南非未能实现与卫生相关的千年发展目标(Byass et al.， 2015)，以及实现可持续发展目标所面临的挑战，特别是考虑到COVID-19对健康结果的影响，都表明有必要加强卫生系统。已经制定了各种政策来应对该系统所面临的挑战——最新的政策是国民健康保险。许多卫生部长已经认识到，仅靠政府的努力将无法解决卫生部门面临的许多挑战。在这篇评论中，我们重点关注非政府组织及其在支持政府加强卫生系统方面的作用。
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The South African Journal of Psychology publishes contributions in English from all fields of psychology. While the emphasis is on empirical research, the Journal also accepts theoretical and methodological papers, review articles, short communications, reviews and letters containing fair commentary. Priority is given to articles which are relevant to Africa and which address psychological issues of social change and development.
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