Can disease control priorities improve health systems performance in South Africa?

Improving health systems performance in order to achieve good health care outcomes and meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has received increased global attention. Using the World Health Organization (WHO)’s framework on health system strengthening, an overview is presented of key aspects of performance of the South African (SA) health system that are likely to impact on the Disease Control Priorities (DCP) initiative.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde

• Publication date

  2010-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.7196/SAMJ.4439PMID 21414267
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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