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Women in Healthcare
Barriers and enablers to providing high
quality, cost-effective care
The main components of this healthcare ecosystem are the:
1.Providers who have control over the:
a.
Healthcare workforce and skills mix
b.
Input costs into the systems
c.
Buildings and facilities
d.
Clinical, operational, administrative and financial processes
e.
Management and Leadership
2.Payers who are responsible for:
a.
Health insurance coverage
b.
Influencing providers to provide the right care, at the right time and the right price
c.
Encouraging members to change their behaviours to prevent the onset of lifestyle diseases
3.Patients who are responsible for:
a.Self-care
b.Family care
c.Practicing the appropriate health-seeking behaviours
4.Systems such as the:
a.Primary Health care system
b.Community-based services
c.Promotion and Prevention
d.Policy and Regulation
e.Information and Financing
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An ideal healthcare system, for South Africa, involves creating the
appropriate systems and incentives between all the key stakeholders
in the sector.
South African women in healthcare strongly believe that our country should avoid replicating high-cost systems in
countries such as the United States of America. They want a healthcare system that is rooted within their
communities, provides easy access and high quality medical treatment, at costs that are affordable and fair. They want
clinicians who revive the traditional values of the profession yet are able to adapt to modern mechanism of
communication and disease management.
Payers
Providers
Patients