The Drivers of Universal Health Care in South Africa: The Role of Ideas, Actors and Institutions

Rebecca Surender

Chapter 12 in Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies, 2017, pp 321-346 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter examines the opportunities and challenges entailed by the recently proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) reforms in South Africa. It discusses what NHI is trying to achieve within the context of the country’s current two-tiered health system and how it hopes to address existing problems, before examining the political, institutional and implementation challenges the reforms will face. While most attention has been thus far devoted to the structural requirements and fiscal affordability of universal coverage, this chapter highlights attention on wider challenges—in particular the important role played by key stakeholders tasked with implementing the reforms.

Keywords: Gross Domestic Product; National Health Insurance; National Health Insurance Scheme; Medical Scheme; Universal Health Care (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-53377-7_12

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