Primary healthcare seeking behaviour of low-income patients across the public and private health sectors in South Africa
Abstract Background The proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) system aims to re-engineer primary healthcare (PHC) in South Africa, envisioning both private sector providers and public sector clinics as independent contracting units to the NHI Fund. In 2017, 16% of the South African population had...
Main Authors: | Kerensa Govender, Sarah Girdwood, Daniel Letswalo, Lawrence Long, G. Meyer-Rath, J. Miot |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-09-01
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Series: | BMC Public Health |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11678-9 |
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