"Health Care Reform" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Innovation and improvement of the health care system by reappraisal, amendment of services, and removal of faults and abuses in providing and distributing health services to patients. It includes a re-alignment of health services and health insurance to maximum demographic elements (the unemployed, indigent, uninsured, elderly, inner cities, rural areas) with reference to coverage, hospitalization, pricing and cost containment, insurers' and employers' costs, pre-existing medical conditions, prescribed drugs, equipment, and services.
| Descriptor ID |
D018166
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.655.500.608.400.285 I01.880.604.825.608.400.285 N03.349.285 N03.623.500.608.428.285 N04.590.374.285 N05.300.380
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| Concept/Terms |
Health Care Reform- Health Care Reform
- Health Care Reforms
- Reform, Health Care
- Reforms, Health Care
- Healthcare Reform
- Healthcare Reforms
- Reform, Healthcare
- Reforms, Healthcare
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Care Reform" by people in Profiles.
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South African healthcare reforms towards universal healthcare - where to next? S Afr Med J. 2024 Mar 18; 114(3):e1571.
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Using social network analysis to examine inter-governmental relations in the implementation of the Ideal Clinic Realisation and Maintenance programme in two South African provinces. PLoS One. 2021; 16(5):e0251472.
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Contracting of private medical practitioners in a National Health Insurance pilot district: What has been the effect on primary healthcare utilisation indicators? Afr J Prim Health Care Fam Med. 2020 Oct 28; 12(1):e1-e10.
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Policy context, coherence and disjuncture in the implementation of the Ideal Clinic Realisation and Maintenance programme in the Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa. Health Res Policy Syst. 2020 Jun 03; 18(1):55.
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Implementing without guidelines, learning at the coalface: a case study of health promoters in an era of community health workers in South Africa. Health Res Policy Syst. 2020 May 14; 18(1):46.
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Universal health coverage and reliable global health estimates. Lancet. 2013 Jul 06; 382(9886):26.
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Cancer care in South Africa. Lancet Oncol. 2012 Aug; 13(8):e324.
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The macroeconomic environment and sexual and reproductive health: a review of trends over the last 30 years. Reprod Health Matters. 2011 Nov; 19(38):11-25.
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Social solidarity and civil servants' willingness for financial cross-subsidization in South Africa: implications for health financing reform. J Public Health Policy. 2011; 32 Suppl 1:S162-83.
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Beyond fragmentation and towards universal coverage: insights from Ghana, South Africa and the United Republic of Tanzania. Bull World Health Organ. 2008 Nov; 86(11):871-6.