Health and health care in South Africa - 20 years after Mandela

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 371, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 1344-1353

  Bongani, M Mayosi ^a   Solomon, R Benatar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GRADUATE STUDENT; HEALTH; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL STUDENT; MIGRATION; NURSE; PANDEMIC; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL ASPECT; TUBERCULOSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; LEGAL ASPECT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PANDEMICS; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 84907790142     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsr1405012     Document Type: Article

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