Universal Health Care includes:
Financial risk protection, access to quality essential health care services, safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all
NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE
What national health insurance is:
What national health insurance is not:
SOUTH AFRICA AND UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE
What is inequality?
Inequality is a broad term, generally used in the human rights field to describe differences among individuals some of which are not remediable with current knowledge.
What is inequity?
Inequity is the presence of systematic and potentially remediable differences among population groups, that is defined socially, economically and/or geographically – it is not the same as inequality.
By far the biggest challenge with the coverage of the entire population of South Africa with universal health, is the inequity that exist between different subgroups within the total South African population.
The availability, accessibility, delivery and standard of healthcare in South Africa is determined by four main factors:
South Africa’s specific health inequalities are:
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